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

Transportation

To fill the supply gap, about 3,000 enterprises in China have started to set up mask production lines.

CHINA BRIEF | EV maker BYD's daily output of face masks reaches 10 million units | KrASIA

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CHINA BRIEF | EV maker BYD&#8217;s daily output of face masks reaches 10 million units

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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

Live Streaming

Seven museums each had around an hour to give viewers an online tour experience

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese and US museums, including the Met, join Pinduoduo to sell souvenirs via livestream | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese and US museums, including the Met, join Pinduoduo to sell souvenirs via livestream

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

Alibaba

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

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

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

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

Fenfu will allow users to acquire goods and repay the bill at a later date.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent launches new payment product, raising competition against Ant Financial

Pinduoduo employees have reported a ban from Alibaba to use Taobao's Juhuasuan, while Alibaba says that it will not allow violation of the platform's terms.

Pinduoduo and Alibaba clash over ban affecting group-buying platform Juhuasuan | KrASIA

Pinduoduo and Alibaba clash over ban affecting group-buying platform Juhuasuan

According to one industry ranking, OceanBase beats Oracle in terms of performance.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches SaaS version of its internal database infrastructure to increase tech service revenues

Fashion

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many fashion events around the world to cancel.

With large gatherings cancelled, Shanghai Fashion Week joins Alibaba to livestream runway | KrASIA

With large gatherings cancelled, Shanghai Fashion Week joins Alibaba to livestream runway

The city has been locked down for more than two months.

CHINA BRIEF | Wuhan travel restrictions to be lifted April 8, allowing residents with green QR codes to leave | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Wuhan travel restrictions to be lifted April 8, allowing residents with green QR codes to leave

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.

Edtech

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

New funds will be used for research and development on courses and new technologies.

CHINA BRIEF | Coding education firm Xiaomawang closes USD 21.2 million pre-Series C round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Coding education firm Xiaomawang closes USD 21.2 million pre-Series C round

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Samsung

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

While Samsung and Apple have remained as top two smartphone vendors in the world.