China acknowledges ‘temperature gap’ between tech boom and traditional slump

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China's Communist Party theoretical journal acknowledged a significant economic divide between its booming AI sector and struggling traditional industries. The Qiushi Journal emphasized the need for rapid technological advances to benefit all citizens and cautioned against leaving ordinary citizens behind.

A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China’s booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries. And while arguing that this divergence was not unique to China, the Qiushi Journal stressed that rapid technological advances must not leave ordinary citizens behind. In a commentary published on its website on Sunday, the journal conceded that there was an obvious “gap in temperature” in the world’s second-largest...