Chinese markets are booming with new public stock offerings, energized by the craze forartificial intelligenceand other advanced technology and a growing preference to list shares in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In the latest big stock listing, shares in China-founded e-commerce and fast fashion giant Shein are due to debut Tuesday in Hong Kong in a blockbuster initial public offering raising $1. Unitree, one of China’s leading humanoid robot makers, alsomade its listing debut in Shanghai in August. “The current IPO boom is powered by investor appetite for AI and robotics,” said Ruiying Zhao, a senior research analyst at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Trading in Shanghai’s stock market, for one, is heavily driven by retail investors.