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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

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

E-Commerce

S&amp;P Global Ratings estimates the market at just over USD 20 billion in 2020 and expects growth of 50-60% this year.

SF Express makes hurried entrance into neighborhood group-buying | KrASIA

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SF Express makes hurried entrance into neighborhood group-buying

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Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Private Equity

The online purchase of fresh food is increasing rapidly in China.

Cold-chain logistics firm Xianshenghuo raises USD 92.5 million in Series A | KrASIA

Cold-chain logistics firm Xianshenghuo raises USD 92.5 million in Series A

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

Alibaba

Food Delivery

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

The tragedy calls attention to the lack of workplace protections and benefits for around 200 million gig workers in China.

Alibaba's Ele.me covers medical costs for delivery driver who lit himself on fire over pay dispute | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s Ele.me covers medical costs for delivery driver who lit himself on fire over pay dispute

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

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

Entertainment

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

Pinduoduo planned to promote its new service Duoduo Pay and grocery group-buying platform Duoduo Maicai.

ByteDance's Douyin to replace Pinduoduo as red packet sponsor of CCTV gala | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin to replace Pinduoduo as red packet sponsor of CCTV gala

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 laying the building blocks for its fintech segment, says analyst.

ByteDance steps up fintech ambitions with new supply chain financing firm | KrASIA

ByteDance steps up fintech ambitions with new supply chain financing firm

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Smartphones

Xiaomi is the world's third largest smartphone vendor.

Xiaomi stock dives after blacklisting by US | KrASIA

Xiaomi stock dives after blacklisting by US

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

Didi

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Retail

Group-buying businesses have shunned top-tier cities so far.

Pinduoduo pioneers neighborhood group-buying service in Shanghai | KrASIA

Pinduoduo pioneers neighborhood group-buying service in Shanghai

Health Tech

It is the first time that the health code system, which is administrated by the local government, has been required by ride-hailing services.

Beijing vaccinates drivers, collects passenger data via health codes to curb COVID-19 | KrASIA

Beijing vaccinates drivers, collects passenger data via health codes to curb COVID-19

Megvii

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Megvii's Hong Kong IPO application lapsed after it appeared on the US government’s Entity List.