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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

Strong US and Asian investors’ demand for its first new share sale since listing in New York comes even as Nio says it will not pay dividends any time soon.

Loss-making Chinese Tesla rival Nio expands new American depositary shares sale, raises USD 428 million on strong demand | KrASIA

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Loss-making Chinese Tesla rival Nio expands new American depositary shares sale, raises USD 428 million on strong demand

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A WeRide robotaxi is spotted in Guangzhou, China.

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. 

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

Industry studies have concluded that 5G can reduce the high cost of on-board equipment by shifting some computing power off vehicle.

Why 5G is considered an essential element in China’s autonomous driving roadmap | KrASIA

Why 5G is considered an essential element in China’s autonomous driving roadmap

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

Beijing, which came in as the top city for startups in Asia, climbed from 17th to 6th globally.

China climbs to 14th place in global startup ecosystem as Beijing focuses on tech development, says report | KrASIA

China climbs to 14th place in global startup ecosystem as Beijing focuses on tech development, says report

Bilibili

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

Social Impact

Video

Since December, the vlogger has amassed nearly 187,000 followers and his videos on Bilibili have generated a combined 315 million views.

Bilibili flags popular vlogger’s content as suspect amid rise in disinformation, scams on Chinese video sites | KrASIA

Bilibili flags popular vlogger’s content as suspect amid rise in disinformation, scams on Chinese video sites

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

Oppo now accounts for 2% of the European market after experiencing 10-fold growth in the first quarter amid countrywide lockdowns due to the pandemic.

Chinese smartphone brand Oppo eyes bigger Europe presence with Vodafone partnership as rival Huawei slumps in region | KrASIA

Chinese smartphone brand Oppo eyes bigger Europe presence with Vodafone partnership as rival Huawei slumps in region

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

China’s sovereign digital currency, the so-called Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), could be launched later this year.

What is China’s cryptocurrency-like sovereign digital currency and why is it not like bitcoin? | KrASIA

What is China’s cryptocurrency-like sovereign digital currency and why is it not like bitcoin?

Students- Photo by Magic Keegan on Unsplash

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Temperature statistics collected by the wristbands are uploaded to smartphone apps via Bluetooth.

Beijing adopts smart wristbands for real-time fever detection of students as schools reopen after coronavirus lockdown | KrASIA

Beijing adopts smart wristbands for real-time fever detection of students as schools reopen after coronavirus lockdown

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

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

Transportation

Researchers at the Institute of Technological Sciences at Wuhan University say they made a prototype engine that uses electricity to produce plasma, possibly paving the way to greener air travel.

Travel by plasma jets? New research suggests it's possible | KrASIA

Travel by plasma jets? New research suggests it&#8217;s possible

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

Alibaba

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

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

The Double Five shopping festival is part of measures to boost consumer spending, which has slowed during the COVID-19 outbreak.