Two things worrying about this story.
1) That DRM could be stymied before it’s got off the ground (and with the Chinese government backing it, cheap radios are going to be much more plentfiul far quicker than DAB radios have been)
2) That it could stop Shortwave radio transmissions completely. That would be terribly sad. I want to see a full working digital alternative to analogue before it gets switched off. A colleague borrowed some experimental DRM gear recently and it seems to suffer the manifest problem with digital broadcasting – if you’re on the cusp of clear reception, then you get horrible quite literally “bitty” reception.