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Welcome to Mapping China’s Tech Giants

Chinese technology companies are increasingly important and dynamic international actors. They are making critical contributions in a range of areas, from cutting edge research to enabling

connectivity for developing countries. Yet, their rapid expansion and growing influence also bring a range of strategic and policy challenges. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute's International Cyber

Policy Centre has created a public database to map the global expansion of 12 key Chinese tech companies working across the telecommunications, internet & biotech sectors. It’s a tool for

journalists, researchers, NGOs, policymakers and the interested public to better understand the enormous scale, complexity and increasing reach of some of China’s tech giants. On this website you’ll

find:

12 companies

1700+ points of overseas presence

17k+ total data points

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Smart Cities An important and understudied part of the global expansion of Chinese tech companies involves the

proliferation of smart cities and ‘public security solutions’ around the world. Euphemistically called ‘safe cities’, these projects involve sophisticated surveillance technologies including surveillance

cameras, facial & license plate recognition technologies, command & control centres, data labs and new intelligence fusion capabilities. This research maps:

75 Smart City-Public Security

projects

46 Countries

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University & research partnerships

Chinese companies are expanding their overseas R&D, including through partnerships with foreign universities, governments, companies and think-tanks. All companies we’ve included in this database

engage in an assortment of different research partnerships and most have R&D labs overseas. Huawei has been particularly active in developing ties with universities, including through its ‘Seeds

for the Future’ program, which provides training and funds students to visit their headquarters in Shenzhen. This research maps:

404 Research partnerships

119 R&D labs

195+ Huawei Seeds for the Future

partnerships

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Explore mapExplore countries

Please explore and use this public database. While it contains more than 17,000 data points, it is still not exhaustive and we welcome and encourage you to help us make it more complete. As a function of their increasingly scale and scope, China’s tech giants can exert increasing levels of influence over

industries and governments around the world. The close relationship between these companies and the Chinese Communist Party means that the expansion of China’s tech giants is about more than commerce. In our report we dig into some of the data and take a look at the geostrategic, political

and human rights implications of this expansion.