China’s speedy rise in science and know-how is providing developing economies new opportunities to advance digital transformation, strengthen analysis capability, and speed up sustainable growth, an Egyptian expert has mentioned.
“China has indeed become an important pole of global innovation today. Much of today’s serious scientific research comes from China, especially in smart technology and artificial intelligence (AI) applications,” Abdel-Wahab Ghoneim, vice chairman of the Arab Federation for Digital Economy, informed Xinhua in a current interview.
Ghoneim, additionally a digital transformation marketing consultant to the Egyptian authorities, attributed China’s technological progress to 3 components: “linking scientific research to industry, expanding advanced technologies such as AI, computing and chips, and having a state system that supports research, manufacturing and investment.”
These strikes, along with technological training, laws replace, and administrative streamlining, provide sensible classes for developing nations, together with Egypt, the expert mentioned.
Earlier this month, China introduced the winners of its 2025 State Science and Technology Awards in Beijing, honoring 258 tasks and 11 sci-tech consultants.
Among the award winners was Chen Liquan, a number one Chinese expert in lithium battery know-how, which Ghoneim described as essential to the way forward for electrical autos (EVs) and renewable power.
“Honoring an expert in lithium batteries carries a very important message,” he mentioned, noting batteries at the moment are the spine of sustainable growth, central to fixing storage challenges in photo voltaic, wind, and EVs.
China’s EV sector has advanced from catching as much as attaining world management, providing Egypt a mannequin for cooperation in semiconductors, photo voltaic panels, wind generators, and different superior industries, notably given Egypt’s considerable reserves of high-purity silica sand and mineral-rich black sand, each of that are important uncooked supplies for superior manufacturing.
“It is necessary to attract Chinese companies that manufacture electronic chips and other advanced industries to establish factories in Egypt, while offering them the best incentives,” he added.
He additionally pointed to current cooperation between Egypt and China, together with the Government Data and Cloud Computing Center, Huawei’s collaboration on 5G know-how in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, and the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone.
“These are major projects that reflect Egyptian confidence in Chinese technology,” he mentioned.
At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, held earlier in July in Shanghai, China introduced the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization and pledged 5,000 opportunities in AI coaching and seminar packages for developing nations in the subsequent 5 years.
Ghoneim mentioned such efforts mirror the rising significance of China as a companion for developing nations in search of to construct their very own technological future.
“China cooperates with developing countries on the path of development according to the win-win principle,” he famous.