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Borneo Post
3 days ago
- Business
- Borneo Post
Demand for AI talent surges in China amid tech boom
Students learn about employment information at a job fair held at Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 26, 2025. – Xinhua photo BEIJING (June 4): China's artificial intelligence (AI) boom is fueling a fierce talent crunch, with tech companies — from robotics pioneers to cloud giants — scrambling to fill millions of roles amid soaring demand. 'We are critically short of people. All the positions are understaffed,' Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, a leading humanoid robotics firm, said at a recent forum on innovation and entrepreneurship in Shanghai. Seizing the moment to 'recruit on the spot,' the Chinese entrepreneur said that the Hangzhou-based company has already established a Shanghai branch and is actively seeking young professionals. He attributed the hiring frenzy to surging market demand and supportive national policies, noting that Unitree and other robotics firms are experiencing robust growth. The race for talent is intensifying across the country. At a recent job fair in east China's Hangzhou, a hub of innovative enterprises, 830 companies offered 21,000 positions, with half focused on AI algorithms and large model development. Similarly, a recruitment event in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou announced over 50,000 openings, with many roles in electronics, advanced manufacturing, and AI-related fields. 'Our company started to launch projects in domain-specific large models and humanoid robots last year, and we urgently need high-level AI talent,' said Liu Ziyin, operations director of a tech firm in north China's Tianjin, adding that he is frequently visiting recruitment events recently to seek skilled candidates. At present, China is home to over 4,500 AI companies, with its core AI industries valued at nearly 600 billion yuan (about 83.41 billion U.S. dollars), the China Internet Network Information Center said in a report on generative AI. With an industrial chain spanning chips, algorithms, data, platforms and applications in the country, AI has emerged as a key driver of new industrialization, generating an enormous and ever-increasing talent demand, according to the report. AI-related positions are currently the most talent-starved in China, with a supply-demand ratio well below 1.0, according to professional networking platform Maimai. For specialized roles in cloud computing and deep learning, the ratio drops as low as 0.27. McKinsey & Company forecasts that China will require 6 million AI professionals by 2030, but could face a shortfall of 4 million. Wang Liang, a researcher at the Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said fundamental research-oriented and cross-disciplinary experts are needed to help pioneer original algorithms and accelerate AI integration across industries. To address the widening talent gap, China's educational institutions and industry leaders are stepping up their efforts. More than 500 universities now offer AI-related majors or have launched dedicated schools related to the field. Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China included AI into their 2025 enrollment expansion plans, and Nankai University introduced over 130 specialized courses under its AI talent development initiative last year. As the talent pool expands, optimizing the structure and quality of training becomes even more critical, Wang said, noting that future demand for AI professionals will be more segmented and universities must tailor their programs to keep pace with the evolving landscape. Tech firms are also stepping in to cultivate more talent. Peking University and ByteDance established a joint lab in December 2024, and Nanjing University and Alibaba Cloud signed a comprehensive agreement to collaborate on AI talent development in March this year. Tencent has also pledged to deepen partnerships with universities to advance technical innovation and nurture talent. Experts believe that these efforts will help foster a fair, open and sustainable ecosystem for AI talent development, bolstering the country's AI workforce and powering its continuous technological advancement. artificial intelligence China talent
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
The solution to oil spills might be hiding in the ocean — researchers just uncovered something huge
The next big breakthrough when it comes to cleaning up disastrous oil spills in the ocean just might come from the ocean itself. Or, rather, an inhabitant of the ocean. Researchers from China's Harbin Institute of Technology have just published a study in Nature Communications outlining how they came up with a fascinating and novel approach to cleaning oil spills in-situ — at the site of the oil spill itself — using technology that's new, but also millions of years old. It's a living sponge. Specifically, E. aspergillum, known familiarly as the Venus flower, a deepwater sea sponge that normally lives at depths of 3,000 feet. The scientists figured out that these sea sponges have a body structure that is very good at slowing high turbulence water flows, allowing the filtering components of their body to more easily absorb nutrients from the water around them, even when the water is moving in complex flows. That's been a problem for traditional methods used to clean up oil spills at the source. "Since the 1979 Atlantic Empress disaster (an oil tanker that sank in the Caribbean), interception and adsorption have been the primary methods for oil spill recovery, but these are sensitive to water-flow fluctuation," explained lead author of the study Shijie You, according to Physics World. You's team essentially built a copy of the sea sponge's architecture in what's called a vortex-anchored filter (VAF). The sponge has a complex internal structure that is able to dissipate high-energy water flow into smaller pockets of calmer water. According to You, this increases the efficiency of the sponge's filtering. By mimicking this capability, You's team built a VAF that does something similar, but rather than filtering out food, it filters out particles of oil suspended in the seawater. Under stress testing, the VAF filtered out an astonishing 97% of oils from water, regardless of how turbulent the water was. If this technology can be scaled, it has tremendous potential applications when it comes to cleaning up ocean pollution. Oil spills, of course, but perhaps it could be used for separating microplastics from the water column. The possibilities are numerous. Do you think America has a plastic waste problem? Definitely Only in some areas Not really I'm not sure Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. "We look forward to applying VAF-based technologies to solve sea pollution problems with a filter that has an outstanding flexibility and adaptability, easy-to-handle operability and scalability, environmental compatibility, and life-cycle sustainability," You said, according to Physics World. The whole ocean-loving world looks forward to that too. Join our free newsletter for weekly updates on the latest innovations improving our lives and shaping our future, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
South China Morning Post
24-02-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
Death of Chinese radar scientist Yang Qiang a ‘major loss' for military research
The death of leading Chinese radar scientist Yang Qiang, who worked on systems to detect stealth aircraft such as the US' F-22, is a major loss for military research, his university has said. Advertisement Yang, a professor in the school of electronics and information engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), died of 'illness' in Shanghai on February 17, the institute said on Tuesday. He was 55, HIT said, without giving details of his death. The institute described Yang as 'the backbone of teaching and research' at the school and said his death was 'a major loss for both the university and the national defence research front'. HIT is a top-ranked university in China and one of a group specialising in military engineering, aerospace, naval engineering and information warfare. Advertisement It is overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and attracts the most research funding of these kinds of institutions.
