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The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Videos

As foreign firms like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods set their sights on China's artificial meat market, domestic brands are stepping up.

Video | China's plant-based meat competition is sizzling | KrASIA

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Video | China&#8217;s plant-based meat competition is sizzling

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Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Chen, also a founding member of Pinduoduo, had been involved in operational decisions while serving as the company’s chief technology officer since 2016.

Video | Who is Chen Lei, Pinduoduo's new CEO? | KrASIA

Video | Who is Chen Lei, Pinduoduo&#8217;s new CEO?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Live Streaming

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

ByteDance is aggressively pushing into arenas dominated by other tech giants.

Video | Will ByteDance erode Alibaba's e-commerce dominance?  | KrASIA

Video | Will ByteDance erode Alibaba&#8217;s e-commerce dominance? 

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Over 150 million users have joined mutual aid programs as of the end of 2019 in China.

Video | Mutual aid platforms, the best alternative to commercial health insurance for millions of Chinese | KrASIA

Video | Mutual aid platforms, the best alternative to commercial health insurance for millions of Chinese

Bilibili

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Do Bilibili, or Xigua Video have what it takes to become China's next major media streaming platform?

Video | ByteDance vs Bilibili: Is there a Chinese alternative to YouTube? | KrASIA

Video | ByteDance vs Bilibili: Is there a Chinese alternative to YouTube?

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Yang Geyilang, the dev behind hit game Chinese Parents, talks about how he turned his lifelong love for gaming into a career.

Video | What's it like to be an indie game developer in China? | KrASIA

Video | What&#8217;s it like to be an indie game developer in China?

The tech company is involved in more than just TikTok and Jinri Toutiao.

Video | Beyond TikTok: Meet ByteDance's array of apps and services | KrASIA

Video | Beyond TikTok: Meet ByteDance&#8217;s array of apps and services

After Luckin's crash, the strongest challenger to Starbucks in China might be a tea company.

Video | Can Chinese tea chains challenge Starbucks in China? | KrASIA

Video | Can Chinese tea chains challenge Starbucks in China?

In the world's biggest gaming market, can a localized version of the popular Steam platform succeed?

James Chan

Video | China’s plant-based meat competition is sizzling

Video | Who is Chen Lei, Pinduoduo’s new CEO?

Video | Will ByteDance erode Alibaba’s e-commerce dominance?

Video | Mutual aid platforms, the best alternative to commercial health insurance for millions of Chinese

Video | ByteDance vs Bilibili: Is there a Chinese alternative to YouTube?

Video | What’s it like to be an indie game developer in China?

Video | Beyond TikTok: Meet ByteDance’s array of apps and services

Video | Can Chinese tea chains challenge Starbucks in China?

Video | Can Steam China catch on with local gamers and developers?