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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

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

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

E-Commerce

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

Food Delivery

The app also has a local service function.

Amid university shutdowns, JD Digits forges ahead with campus-focused social app | KrASIA

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Amid university shutdowns, JD Digits forges ahead with campus-focused social app

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Song Jingli

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

Transportation

CHINA BRIEF | World's largest battery maker CATL enlarges overseas corporate bond sale plan to meet demand | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | World&#8217;s largest battery maker CATL enlarges overseas corporate bond sale plan to meet demand

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

Trade associations demand the company discontinue exclusive cooperation agreements and lower commission fees.

Meituan's relationship with dining sector sours as COVID-19 tests restaurants' bottom line | KrASIA

Meituan&#8217;s relationship with dining sector sours as COVID-19 tests restaurants&#8217; bottom line

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

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. 

Huawei's Ren Zhengfei and Tencent's Pony Ma took the second and third positions, respectively.

Alibaba's Jack Ma tops Fortune China's list of influential business leaders in 2020 | KrASIA

Alibaba&#8217;s Jack Ma tops Fortune China&#8217;s list of influential business leaders in 2020

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.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

WeRide's COO, Zhang Li, says his company will be the first to offer completely autonomous taxis in China.

This startup vows to have fully driverless robotaxis available to the public by 2021: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

This startup vows to have fully driverless robotaxis available to the public by 2021: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

Bilibili

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

Xiaomi

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 VC firm distributed over USD 1 billion in cash returns to limited partners in 2019.

CHINA BRIEF| Qiming Venture Partners closes USD 1.1 billion fund, targeting early stage healthcare and TMT startups | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF| Qiming Venture Partners closes USD 1.1 billion fund, targeting early stage healthcare and TMT startups

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Electric Vehicles

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

The company has entered into collaborations with several electric car manufacturers including Nio, Enovate, and Aiways.

CHINA BRIEF | Solid-state battery maker ProLogium closes USD 100 million Series D round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Solid-state battery maker ProLogium closes USD 100 million Series D round

Meishang's Chinese domestic brand Colorkey ushered in more than RMB 200 million in revenue in just one year since its Tmall debut.

CHINA BRIEF | Sequoia-backed cosmetics startup Meishang closes USD 28.3 million Series A | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Sequoia-backed cosmetics startup Meishang closes USD 28.3 million Series A

The firm counts Xiaomi, SF, and Alibaba among its over 8000 clients.

Song Jingli

Amid university shutdowns, JD Digits forges ahead with campus-focused social app

CHINA BRIEF | World’s largest battery maker CATL enlarges overseas corporate bond sale plan to meet demand

Meituan’s relationship with dining sector sours as COVID-19 tests restaurants’ bottom line

Alibaba’s Jack Ma tops Fortune China’s list of influential business leaders in 2020

This startup vows to have fully driverless robotaxis available to the public by 2021: Inside China’s Startups

CHINA BRIEF| Qiming Venture Partners closes USD 1.1 billion fund, targeting early stage healthcare and TMT startups

CHINA BRIEF | Solid-state battery maker ProLogium closes USD 100 million Series D round

CHINA BRIEF | Sequoia-backed cosmetics startup Meishang closes USD 28.3 million Series A

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba-backed voice interaction company AISpeech closes USD 58 million Series E round