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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

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

China Tech

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

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

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

E-Commerce

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

Weishi launched its Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Shopping Season in a bid to get more farmers selling their produce on the the platform.

Farm-to-home shopping takes root on Tencent's Weishi short video platform | KrASIA

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Farm-to-home shopping takes root on Tencent&#8217;s Weishi short video platform

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

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Song Jingli

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Robotics

Jianjia has developed Arthrobot, a robot which can position, grind, and install prostheses, to aid doctors during joint replacement surgeries.

Baidu-backed surgical robot maker Jianjia closes USD 14.6 million Series B | KrASIA

Baidu-backed surgical robot maker Jianjia closes USD 14.6 million Series B

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Duckbill has already more than 5,000 corporate clients, among them Shanghai-based logistics giant Sinolines, CTS International Logistics, and state-owned China Cosco Shipping.

Logistics startup Duckbill raises USD 30 million in pre-Series B round | KrASIA

Logistics startup Duckbill raises USD 30 million in pre-Series B round

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

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.

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

The firm just received USD 20 million investment in a Series A+ round led by Source Code Capital.

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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

Entertainment

This move allows smaller companies and livestreamers to capitalize on the rapidly growing livestreaming e-commerce sector in China.

Alibaba opens its livestreaming technologies to other companies | KrASIA

Alibaba opens its livestreaming technologies to other companies

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

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

Food Tech

The move is Meituan’s second foray into China’s RMB 5 trillion (USD 733 billion) fresh food retailing industry.

Meituan plans grocery retail business expansion to cover 1,000 cities and towns in China | KrASIA

Meituan plans grocery retail business expansion to cover 1,000 cities and towns in China

Grocery Delivery

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

The startup, which currently operates in Eastern China only, wants a slice of the USD 733 billion fresh food retail market.

Grocery retailer Bunnymaicai raises USD 10 million in Series A round | KrASIA

Grocery retailer Bunnymaicai raises USD 10 million in Series A round

Deep Tech

The company's products help doctors diseases quicker through AI-enabled image readings.

CHINA BRIEF | Medtech software maker Shukun raises USD 29 million | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Medtech software maker Shukun raises USD 29 million

Alibaba-backed Best is trying to balance fast growth with dreams of profitability.