China’s leader Xi Jinping, president a second term, a lifetime’s rule to push his idea of a rejuvenated “Stronger, Longer, Bigger” China, a country on the path to global dominance in technology and renewable energy. China is also the world largest mobile payment market, where cash is becoming all but obsolete, yearly mobile payments account for 5 trillion dollars. Big brother is watching, surveillance is everywhere, China aims to have one surveillance camera per person by 2030. The government is working to create a techno-authoritarian state powered by artificial intelligence and facial recognition to track and monitor all its citizens. By 2030 China plans to build a $150 billion industry by becoming a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, and is already selling its ‘Big Brother’ surveillance technology to ‘abusive governments’. China's “Social Credit System”, expected to be fully operational by 2020, doesn't just monitor the nation's almost 1.4 billion citizens, it’s also designed to control and coerce them, in a gigantic social engineering experiment, where penalties include being shamed in public, losing access to rapid trains and high speed internet. The country's 19 super regions have a proliferation of mega cities, needing extra-ordinary levels of energy including renewables to run them. China’s investment in sustainable energy produces more wind, hydro and solar power than other countries. Since the 1980s China planted 66 billion trees, a long time ago such a thing was to keep the invading Mongol hordes from China’s border, now its towards building a great green wall around the Gobi Desert instead.

Chinese people are addicted to using their mobile telephones all the time whether in subways or overground

HEMA mega supermarket stores offer a mixture of online and in store retail in the same stores. The automated check out is designed for customer applications on their mobile telephone and in-store digital decoders used by staff. Hema boast that goods ordered online will arrive fresh in metropolitan areas within 30 minutes of ordering. Staff in their blue sweatshirts can be seen literally running around the stores armed with digital decoders collecting customers online orders for swift delivery. Retail items can be tried and tested in-store, then ordered online. There are fresh, even live fish, which will be delivered alive to customers. Food products are packed in specially protective boxes to arrive in pristine condition. Fresh food products can be cooked in store and are priced accordingly.

To enter the Beijing Train Station everyone has to pass by the Face recognition machines, scanning their ID papers first, then having their face scanned to make sure they are who they say they are. Big brother is watching. Above the entrance to the station are instructions how to do thisd process oneself, without help from staff. Buying tickets for travel at ticket machines, again one has to scan documents. Anyone who has a low social credit rating may not be allowed to travel, or even enter the railway station.

First Robotic waiter restaurant in Shanghai. Robots waiters serve customers with their food direct to their table. They robots navigate their way around people and objects to the table. The kitchen staff put a plate of food on the tray the robots hold and program the robot to move directly to the table. On reaching their destination, the robots stop and a waiter takes off the food and gives it to the customer. Customers enjoy this novelty attraction and many take pictures of the robots and selfies with them

A bookshop as a research and work space, with access via a mobile application. Alipay bookshop in Shanghai university campus is unique. The first of its kind. Students may only enter by downloading the Alipay application, however they can then peruse the store, read books at their leisure, work, research inside the store. There is no pressure to buy. However if they wish to purchase a book or research material, they then pay with Alipay at checkout, if they wish take a book home with them

Suning pioneers the very first Face Recognition retail outlet in Shanghai China. Firstly customers need to download the application. They can do this at the entrance to the store. Then they photograph themselves. The photograph is then registered in the application. When they want to enter the shop, their face is recognised and they are allowed in. On leaving the shop, again their face is recognised and purchase of the goods they buy is made by face recognition, without any further use of their mobile telephone

A mix of interactive nighttime illuminated spaces from holographic theatre to LED and city lights

Teaching elderly Chinese people how to use applications within iPhones in an Apple retail outlet. A child learning how to navigate maps inside a metro subway. Customers and Cyber cafes. Interactive mobile application displayed on mirror of toilet inside railway station which can be transferred onto user mobile. A driver solves an issue flagged up on his car dashboard using a diagnostic software linking his mobile with the car system.

China Construction Bank (CCB), China’s second largest lender by assets, opened its first branch in Shanghai, run by pure technology including facial recognition (FR), artificial intelligent (AI) and virtual reality (VR). This branch is run by ‘smiling’ robots. Walking through the front door of the branch, users first meet a friendly looking robot that answers inquiries via voice recognition. Users will then be met by a second robot in the lobby, which can answer further inquiries. However some real humans are ready to offer a helping hand if the artificial assistants can’t solve complicated demands. Quick response code points – those black bar codes, best known as QR codes – are available on screens for consumers to pay for products and services, or engage in small interactive augmented reality games to make the experience more of an occasion rather than just branch visit. A virtual experience 3D machine in property retail is also available to showcase CCB’s latest home rental offerings. The ground floor outlet is equipped with several smart automated tellers capable of a range of services, including account opening, money transfer, foreign exchange, gold investment and the issue of wealth management products. First time visitors have their ID card scanned before gaining access. Customers are then offered a queue number by the robo-assistant. On subsequent visits, face recognition will be enough for the system to access customer information.

A variety of shared vehicles exist, from shared bicycles, electric cars and buses, lorries and emergency vehicles, hybrids, electric bikes, charging stations for vehicles

Surveillance cameras are all over China. As part of the development of Face Recognition, artificial intelligence, and tracking citizens for the social credit system, China expects to have a ration of one camera per person by 2030, that's 1.5 billion surveillance cameras nationwide

Social Credit Rating System: Pedestrians who jay walk, who cross when there is a red light, if identified will be fined 20 yuan after they commit three offences. They are named and shamed after each offence, I public, for all to see. An image of their face and name appears of the video screen. This is part of a new control using face recognition camera software installations at traffic lights. Offences or misdemeanours, like these, can contribute to a citizen's social credit rating. They lose points for a traffic ticket but gain points for an "exemplary city level heroic act". A poor social credit score can lead to bans from travel, certain schools, luxury hotels, government positions and even dating apps. Traffic lights at crossroads. Beijing outskirts. China

Navigating the consumer retail in China using a mobile telephone with WeChat, Alipay and other applications. The mobile telephone becomes the means of access to hiring, charging, paying at restaurants using a wifi menu iPad, cashless purchase in shops, checking where your clean dishes have been washed, using virtual maps, checking air pollution, paying parking, renting a mobile telephone battery to charge your telephone, renting an umbrella, renting a book from a library in the middle of a street, checking to see what the weather pollution is like, getting your telephone repaired at an unmanned kiosk, QR codes in advertising, QR codes on TV screen, contacting authorities to report offenders using QR applications, everything works through QR codes and mobile applications