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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

Businesses who put Meituan’s power banks in their shops will get more online exposure from the food delivery giant.

Meituan to expand its revived power bank sharing business | KrASIA

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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

Robotics

Narwal Robotics unveiled its first autonomous robot cleaner, the Narwal T10, last year.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance co-leads USD 14 million investment in robot cleaner startup Narwal Robotics | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance co-leads USD 14 million investment in robot cleaner startup Narwal Robotics

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.

Deep Tech

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 robotics firm will use the new funds for product development, supply chain establishment, and commercialization.

CHINA BRIEF | Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics secures RMB 100 million in Series B+ round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics secures RMB 100 million in Series B+ round

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. 

China Mobile is among the first batch of telecom carriers to offer 5G service in Hong Kong, along with Hutchison Telecom, and HKT.

China Mobile kicks off commercial 5G service in Hong Kong | KrASIA

China Mobile kicks off commercial 5G service in Hong Kong

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

The automotive aftermarket is the secondary market of the automotive industry, concerned with the manufacturing, remanufacturing, distribution, retailing, and installation of all vehicle parts, chemicals, equipment, and accessories, after the sale of the automobile by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to the consumer. 

Automotive Aftermarket

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

Transportation

Chehaoduo has landed a USD 1.5 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund in March 2019.

CHINA BRIEF | SoftBank-backed used car trader Chehaoduo looks for fresh capital injections | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | SoftBank-backed used car trader Chehaoduo looks for fresh capital injections

Electric Vehicles

Sales of electric cars plummeted 77.7% this year as the coronavirus outbreak put a dent in China's auto industry.

China to extend NEV subsidies for two more years as sector eyes 30% growth | KrASIA

China to extend NEV subsidies for two more years as sector eyes 30% growth

Food Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Meituan made total revenues of USD 4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2019, representing a 42.2% year-on-year increase.

Meituan reports solid Q4 but expects gloomy outlook for 2020 | KrASIA

Meituan reports solid Q4 but expects gloomy outlook for 2020

The firm also said that the construction of two production bases in Guangdong and Shanghai will be completed in the second half of 2020.

CHINA BRIEF | Evergrande Health reports widening losses but maintains optimism and prepares launch of first EV | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Evergrande Health reports widening losses but maintains optimism and prepares launch of first EV

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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.

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

MedTech

Social Impact

Chinese tech companies aim to share their experience and solutions while attracting overseas users.