China has built approximately 120,000 high-quality datasets, as the country continues to increase the supply of high-quality data, according to the National Data Administration on Saturday.
As of the end of June, high-quality datasets in fields such as scientific research, industrial manufacturing and healthcare had reached a total volume of over 1,565 petabytes, up more than 60 percent from the end of the first quarter. This volume is equivalent to about 547 times the total digital resources of the National Library of China.
Seven pilot cities for data annotation, namely Chengdu in Sichuan Province, Shenyang in Liaoning Province, Hefei in Anhui Province, Changsha in Hunan Province, Haikou in Hainan Province, Baoding in Hebei Province, and Datong in Shanxi Province, have seen their annotation scale exceed 119 petabytes, employing approximately 140,000 people for data annotation.
China builds around 120,000 high-quality datasets
The Iranian armed forces announced on Saturday that they hit U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan in waves of retaliatory missile and drone attacks launched earlier the day.
The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that its ground forces targeted the gathering place of U.S. forces at a backup center at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, killing a number of them.
Iranian forces also launched a drone attack that destroyed a radar system, a weapons depot and a hangar of drones at the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, the IRGC added.
In a post on X, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Saturday that two U.S. service members were killed and another remains missing after Iran's strikes on a base in Jordan on Friday.
The deaths bring the total number of U.S. military personnel killed to 16 since the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb 28.
CENTCOM said on Friday that U.S. forces struck multiple military infrastructure targets and underground weapons storage facilities in Iran and were implementing a comprehensive naval blockade against Iran.
Iran said on Saturday that its armed forces destroyed a U.S. unmanned boat storage base in Bahrain and struck U.S. targets in Kuwait, Jordan and Syria.
The IRGC warned that if the United States continues to attack Iran's transportation infrastructure, Iran would launch larger-scale retaliation against U.S.-linked economic and technological assets.
As tensions between the two countries escalated, international crude oil futures closed up more than four percent on Friday, with New York crude oil futures returning above 80 U.S. dollars per barrel for the first time in a month.
Iran's armed forces claim hits on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan in in retaliation
