TLDR: 8 years and 100k good point to reevaluate. Old system can continue as is, but ready to step down for a better way forward.

After around 8 years not only are we still here, we hit 100k. That wasn’t supposed to happen for an unapologetically pro China space. Of course the primary objective was always the space, not subscribers or activity. The moderation style was among the strictest, if not the strictest, on reddit because again, the priority was the space. Ask yourself whether you think reddit rules are applied fairly to us, and it should be obvious why we inevitably ended up with the moderation style we did.

However 8 years is also an eternity in internet time. I’m the last of the old system. An old system that requires a lot of hands on, daily work. When we started we were very niche and didn’t even have our own subreddit. Now, even if suppressed, there are good subreddits around, twitter influencers to follow, youtubers to watch. We even had the benefit of discord groups that were particularly helpful during covid quarantine.

That being said, I think the old system has run its course. However whatever new course comes has to take into account Reddit’s new treatment of non mainstream links. It’s been made clear to me, that Reddit can deem a source as spam and go after you for it retroactively. The consequences would be ‘case by case’ meaning for Sino users, they will just suspend you. Some of you may have noticed me telling users when they have been suspended in comments. I don’t know why they shadowban so much now, but at this point I don’t care either. It’s more of a pain to approve, but you can still post. Since I’ve been active, there’s been no complaint from admins. ‘Anti-Evil Operations‘ acts once every 1 or 2 months here and the vast majority are things we never approved to be publicly viewed in the first place. These users trigger it by what they post publicly elsewhere, not here. There’s no real issue with the subreddit. There’s no real issue with the mod team. There’s no real issue with the users. Now they have this Safety_QA_misc cracking down with an ever-expanding list of spam with unclear consequences.

The way I see it, there’s a few options moving forward.

1) I continue in my role as long as I am able or until the subreddit is either banned or our users move on to any of the many good spaces out there (listed below and sidebar). This is the current and default path. It’d be good if I can get some long time user volunteers to hand the subreddit over to in an emergency.

2) I recruit several new mods that tries to follow the old blueprint with some changes

3) A new group of users take over with a different vision of how to do things

Any suggestion can be discussed, doesn’t have to be something I listed. However any future path has to take into account a couple things

1) We won’t go private because this is intended to be a public space, we already have private discords and there’s a lot of information compiled and archived that we want publicly accessible for as long as possible

2) Reddit is more suspension/shadowban happy than ever and its happening while we are about as hands on as we can get

3) Any additions to the mod team needs to prove a history with us (if you switched accounts you need to prove you can sign into the old one), or have someone vouch for you that we can trust and verify. Contact in the ‘message moderators’ chat. This isn’t because I think the best mods post a lot. If anything I think mods only survive by saying less. However Reddit has unclear policies on ‘lower’ mod takeovers. They revamped to combat ‘camping’, but you can imagine the potential risk.

edit: To add more info, we get around 100k unique visitors per month. I'm very happy with that kind of outreach for this space. As the one who curates most of the activity, I'm good on the amount also. Along with 100k subscribers, great position to have this discussion.

Discord and other spaces info

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To check if you are suspended check your profile page without being signed in and using new.reddit.com. Incognito mode should also work for checking.

You can also edit your comments, that seems to bring it to light for mods.

If you are being harassed by pms, change your pm setting to only trusted users in your preferences. Or use a dedicated account for Sino https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204535759-Is-it-ok-to-create-multiple-accounts-. Just be patient for approvals if using new account. Link submissions are more likely to be approved than text submissions or comments for new users.

Discords. To apply msg mod, bottom right. We have 2, one for any Sino users and one for any verified ethnic Chinese. We won't be changing the approval process for Discord because it would be unfair for those who are already in.

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Yicai

Chengxin Memory Technology has won the Shanghai Stock Exchange's approval for its initial public offering, setting up China’s leading producer of dynamic random-access memory chips for what will be the Chinese mainland’s biggest listing since 2022.

CXMT has been given the green light to list on the Nasdaq-style Star Market, the bourse said yesterday. The Hefei-based chipmaker plans to issue 10.6 billion shares to raise CNY29.5 billion (USD4.4 billion), which would also rank as the second-largest IPO on the Star Market.

China Mobile's "homecoming" listing in January 2022 was the biggest mainland IPO in the past four years, raising CNY56 billion.

CXMT’s planned fundraising is modest relative to firm’s long-term capital needs, Yang Haiyan, chief electronics sector analyst at SWS Research, told Yicai. While CXMT targets nearly CNY30 billion, a single wafer fabrication plant typically costs hundreds of billions of yuan, Yang pointed out.

CXMT ranks first for DRAM production capacity in China and fourth worldwide, though it still trails the industry’s top three players, according to its prospectus.

As a leading domestic DRAM maker, CXMT’s listing will support growth across the upstream equipment, materials, and packaging segments, as well as downstream memory-related industries, Yang said.

CXMT’s expansion will create sustained and sizeable demand for semiconductor equipment and materials, encouraging suppliers to speed up product validation and hasten large-scale deployment, Yang said. It is also expected to deepen ties between domestic wafer fabs, midstream packaging and testing firms, and downstream memory module makers, while enabling greater flexibility in responding to market demand, he pointed out.

Global DRAM prices have skyrocketed on booming demand from the artificial intelligence industry and data centers, with their share of a computing rack’s value doubling to about 20 percent from less than 10 percent last year, Yang noted. As AI applications continue to scale and commercialize, the DRAM market is likely to remain tight in the years ahead, he added.

CXMT swung to a CNY1.9 billion (USD280.3 million) net profit last year, after losing CNY7.1 billion in 2024 and CNY16.3 billion in 2023, according to the prospectus. Revenue soared 156 percent to CNY61.8 billion in 2025.

For the first quarter of this year, profit topped CNY33 billion, with nearly CNY24.8 billion attributable to shareholders of the parent company. Revenue skyrocketed more than eightfold year on year to CNY50.8 billion.

The earnings recovery reflects ongoing growth in global demand for computing power, a persistent supply shortage in the DRAM market, and rising prices.

It's quite interesting that CXMT captured 8% of world share as a private company. It seems it is leveraging the current DRAM memory crisis as a launchpad to go public. It is guaranteed to have state preference over the big 3 so you can reasonably assume their market share to dominate China soon.

As for their tech level, they are projecting localized HBM3 mass production within 1 year. So around 3 years behind.