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“Cloud-borne School Bus”: Once a Daunting Journey, Now an Accessible Route to Education

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BEIJING, March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by China.org.cn on the “cloud-borne school bus” service in China:

 

At a sheer 550-meter rise from the valley floor to the mountaintop, the Nizhu River Grand Canyon poses a daily challenge for nine children from Nizhuhe Village as they make their way to school. The phrase “a nerve-wracking journey” once accurately described their treacherous trek to the classroom. However, with the launch of a “cloud-borne school bus” service, their daily schooling commute has taken a much easier turn.

The story of change was achieved just a few years ago.

Nizhuhe Village is a small community nestled in the Nizhu River Grand Canyon in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Guanzhai Primary School is located on the mountaintop. In the past, children from Nizhuhe Village had three options to go to school: they could either walk for at least three hours, taking a long detour of dozen kilometers to reach the mountain top; or spend more than two hours navigating steep and narrow mountain paths to cross the valley; or, occasionally, older children might climb to the top accompanied by their parents. Likening this route to school to a “journey to the heavens” is no exaggeration.

In 2022, the completion and operation of the Nizhu River Grand Canyon Ecological Cultural Tourism Area was a game-changer. A 268-meter cliff-side elevator and an aerial cable spanning nearly 200 meters in elevation, built over five years, are now open for free to local villagers, serving as a “cloud-borne school bus” for children.

With the start of the new semester, students, accompanied by their parents, take a shuttle bus to a cliff three kilometers away. There, they ride a cliff elevator up to the cable car platform, where they switch to cable cars that take them to the mountaintop in just five to six minutes. What was once a grueling three-hour journey to school now takes only 30 minutes.

The 550-meter “leap” represents a monumental transformation in the rural landscape that has unfolded over several decades.

Once a remote and isolated village, Nizhuhe was cut off from the outside world, even lacking electricity before 2002. Back then poor transportation conditions meant that much of the equipment needed to install power lines had to be carried manually. The project, covering a vertical drop of over 500 meters and using nearly 1,000 meters of wiring, took more than three months. Today, local infrastructure has markedly improved. In 2018, Nizhuhe upgraded its electricity system, erecting two 110-kilovolt power towers on the cliff and the opposite riverbank. The local power supply bureau also provided dual power supply for the cliffside elevator, ensuring that the “cloud-borne school bus” can operate all year-round without interruption.

For the children in the village, the dramatic change featuring the “cloud-borne school bus” has removed the cliffs as a barrier to education.

In a similar vein, as children from Nizhuhe Village ride an elevator across a canyon, 1,600 kilometers away, over 300 students in Qingliu County in southeast China’s Fujian Province are taking the Fuxing high-speed train as a school bus to commute between their county and homes deep in the mountains. This route, established during China’s railway expansion period, has specifically optimized its timetable and ticketing rules to maximize convenience for students traveling to and from school.

Similar stories are unfolding in many parts of China today.

Amidst rugged mountains, various “school buses” symbolizing the achievements of the development of Chinese modernization are traversing geographical barriers, making the journey to education easier for children in remote areas. These initiatives also bring them closer to the wider world, transforming daunting journeys into accessible routes for ordinary people to pursue a better life.

China Mosaic 
http://chinamosaic.china.com.cn/index.htm 

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From China Mobile’s Call Upgrade to the Commercial Launch of “Calling + AI” by Leading Operators: AI Is Reshaping the Value of Native Calling

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BEIJING, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On June 15, 2026, China Mobile announced a comprehensive upgrade to its traditional calling services, ushering in a next-generation calling experience defined by HD, intelligence, and security. This milestone not only marks a major leap in telecommunication innovation but also reflects a global, inevitable shift: the transformation of basic communication into intelligent, inclusive services.

Breaking Experience Barriers and Redefining the Paradigm of Basic Calling

Overcoming the limitations of traditional, voice-only interactions, China Mobile has leveraged its mature VoLTE/VoNR network foundation to deeply integrate AI models with HD audio and video capabilities. Without requiring users to change their phones or SIM cards, seven core AI functions are now seamlessly embedded into the native dialer interface.

These upgrades include Live Captions bridge communication gaps for the elderly and hearing-impaired; HD video calls and AI noise reduction create a crystal-clear, immersive calling experience; AI anti-fraud intercepts high-risk calls in real time to safeguard users’ assets. Furthermore, the introduction of Data Channel (DC) technology and visual call menus transforms standard calls into agile, interactive service windows, enabling multi-party collaboration and seamless business transactions directly within the call. Through this initiative, China Mobile has successfully evolved traditional calls from a mere voice pipeline into a secure, integrated information hub.

“Calling + AI” Becomes a Strategic Consensus Among Global Leading Operators

From a global perspective, China Mobile’s call upgrade is not an isolated milestone, but a microcosm of the global telecommunications industry’s broader transformation. Throughout 2026, major operators worldwide are accelerating the commercial deployment of “Calling + AI” solutions:

Deutsche Telekom launched Magenta AI, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance calling across all scenarios;T-Mobile US introduced a network-side, real-time translation service covering over 80 languages, effectively breaking down cross-border communication barriers;Saudi stc rolled out English-Arabic bilingual simultaneous interpretation, which has now entered large-scale commercial trials;South Korea’s LG U+ launched its ixi-O intelligent calling assistant, shifting the user experience from passive responses to proactive smart interactions and earning three prestigious GLOMO industry awards.

The synchronized efforts of these global leaders confirm that basic calling services have officially entered a new era of AI integration. Deeply empowered by artificial intelligence, “Calling + AI” has become the definitive blueprint for the intelligent transformation of the global telecommunications industry. As operators continue to refine these native capabilities, the traditional voice network is poised to reclaim its position as the most secure, ubiquitous, and valuable entry point in the AI era.

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Trip.com Group Sincerely Accepts Administrative Penalty Decision Issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China

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SINGAPORE, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trip.com Group Limited (Nasdaq: TCOM; HKEX: 9961) today announced that it has received the administrative penalty decision issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China.

Trip.com Group sincerely accepts the decision and will adopt rectification measures in accordance with applicable laws and regulations to implement the decision’s requirements. The Company will strengthen its long-term governance mechanisms and strive to contribute to the sustainable development of the travel industry.

Trip.com Group’s management team will host a conference call at 8:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time on July 27, 2026 (or 8:00 PM Hong Kong Time on July 27, 2026).

The conference call will be available on Webcast live at: http://investors.trip.com.

All participants must pre-register to join this conference call using the participant registration link below:
https://register-conf.media-server.com/register/BIb78e08d8f18340c4882a7e4ab961906b.

Upon registration, each participant will receive details for this conference call, including dial-in numbers and a unique access PIN. To join the conference, please dial the number provided, enter your PIN, and you will join the conference instantly.

For further information, please contact:
Investor Relations
Trip.com Group Limited
Email: iremail@trip.com

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NAVER Partners with Brookfield and NVIDIA to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NAVER, Brookfield and NVIDIA announced an expansion of Korea’s sovereign AI factory infrastructure. New investments will increase the initial NVIDIA DSX™ AI factory deployment from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts.

Announced during Korea President Jae Myung Lee’s AI Summit visit to San Francisco, the planned 200-megawatt expansion will be built with the NVIDIA DSX platform at NAVER’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in Sejong, South Korea. The expanded infrastructure will provide Korea- and U.S.- based AI innovators with access to production-scale AI compute for building next-generation models, agents and AI-powered services.

Under the terms of the agreements, Brookfield will fund up to $9 billion as the exclusive capital partner, NVIDIA will invest $1 billion and NAVER will fund the remaining amount to finance the $10 billion project.

This builds on NAVER’s June announcement to extend its GAK Sejong data center with NVIDIA DSX, with a long-term path to gigawatt-scale sovereign AI infrastructure serving Korea’s enterprises, industries, government organizations and global AI cloud customers. Combining Brookfield’s capital with NVIDIA’s computing platform, the investment supports NAVER’s AI factory deployment.

“NVIDIA’s strategic investment and our infrastructure supply agreement with Brookfield have propelled NAVER’s vision for the AI Factory business into a robust execution phase,” said Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman of NAVER. “Leveraging the solid partnerships with our global partners, we will drive technological innovation, foster a sovereign AI ecosystem, and spearhead efforts to strengthen South Korea’s AI competitiveness.” 

AI Factory Expansion and Open Model Collaboration to Fuel AI Innovators

NAVER, as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, provides deep expertise in operating hyperscale infrastructure powered by the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform. The 200-megawatt AI factory, featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell platforms, will establish a dedicated resource pool for emerging AI companies, providing the compute, software and support needed to develop and deploy competitive AI models and applications at scale.

This expanded infrastructure also builds on NAVER and NVIDIA’s collaboration on open model development for agentic and physical AI. NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models to be based on NVIDIA Nemotron™ 3 Ultra open models with its proprietary data and training expertise. NAVER is also the first Korean company to join the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning.

NAVER plans to launch an AI agent platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA Agent Toolkit software including NVIDIA NemoClaw™ blueprints. NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary urban street-view and spatial modeling data, built on NVIDIA Cosmos™ world foundation models.

About NAVER

Founded in 1999, NAVER is Korea’s largest Internet company and one of the world’s top tech companies. Leading cutting-edge technologies, NAVER operates the No.1 search engine in Korea and holds various business portfolios encompassing commerce, fintech, cloud, AI and robotics.

NAVER recorded sales of KRW 12.04 trillion (USD 8.18 billion) in 2025. TEAM NAVER continues to enhance its business portfolio and expand its global presence across Japan, North America, and Europe, while pursuing innovation through continuous research and development in future technologies.

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