China Dev Radar

Technical developments from China’s developer ecosystem, with context for developers and links to original sources.

Latest edition

2026-11-066 items

China Dev Radar #003 — Verified AI Engineering, Linux Updates and Developer Tools

Six evidence-reviewed stories from November 2–6, 2026: Atrex supervised GPU optimization, Meituan LongCat agent-training engineering, Baidu ERNIE base-model weights, openEuler LTS maintenance, Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 visual computer-use announcement, and deepin desktop engineering research. Hy4 weights were forthcoming at announcement. The deepin report is a November-published retrospective of October work, not a new November release.

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2026-10-308 items

China Dev Radar #002 — On-device AI, Verified AI Coding and Developer Tools

This week: on-device inference, evidence-driven AI coding, stable frontend toolchains, a Linux kernel community preview and useful earlier technical discoveries. Older sources are explicitly dated.

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2026-10-245 items

China Dev Radar #001: Rspack, OceanBase and Rsbuild

This week: Rspack's 2.3 beta changes JavaScript parsing and build diagnostics, OceanBase improves database operations, and Rsbuild adds new development workflows. Plus an earlier engineering deep dive from Meituan, explicitly marked as a research highlight.