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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

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How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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Cheng Zi is based in China, covering technology- and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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Cheng Zi

Alipay, a fintech platform by Ant Group, offers mobile payments, financial services, and e-commerce integrations, supporting transactions globally.

Alipay

Ant Group, a fintech powerhouse, offers digital payments, wealth management tools, and micro loans, enabling borderless, mobile-first financial services.

Ant Group

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Fintech

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

China’s largest payment platforms are competing to move beyond the final step in a transaction and become the starting point for services.

Alipay wants more than a supporting role in the AI era

Aito

BYD, a Chinese EV maker, produces electric cars, buses, and batteries, accelerating adoption of sustainable transportation worldwide.

GAC Group, a Chinese state-owned automaker, is one of China's largest car manufacturers, producing vehicles under its own brands and joint ventures.

GAC Group

Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

Seres

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Losses at EV makers like BAIC, Seres, and GAC contrast with a brighter picture upstream.

China's automakers squeezed as materials suppliers rake in profits

China&#8217;s automakers squeezed as materials suppliers rake in profits

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The company's digital payment services have been used by more than one-third of the country's population.

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial invests USD 73.5 million in Myanmar firm Wave Money

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Song Jingli

A total of 150 million users had enrolled in various online mutual aid programs in China by the end of 2019.

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial predicts Chinese online mutual aid market to triple by 2025

Alibaba, China’s e-commerce giant, operates online retail marketplaces, cloud computing services, and digital payment networks across Asia and beyond.

Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

blockchain in China

Crypto

China's BSN will greatly reduce the barrier to entry for firms looking to leverage blockchain technology and hopes to expand to include global SMEs.

China's public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs

China&#8217;s public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs

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AJ Cortese

The online bank's average outstanding loan size is USD 4,300.

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial's MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial&#8217;s MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly

Microsoft develops Windows, Office, and Azure cloud platforms, enabling productivity, collaboration, and scalable computing worldwide.

Microsoft

Paytm, an Indian digital payments app, enables mobile transactions, bill payments, and financial products for millions of users.

Paytm

Paytm was valued at USD 16 billion last year when the US-based asset manager T Rowe Price—as a new investor—poured USD 150 million into the Noida-based company.

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

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Avanish Tiwary

ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

Tiger Global, a US-based venture firm, backs internet and software businesses scaling across multiple regions.

Tiger Global

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

The e-signature market in China was estimated to reach more than half a billion USD last year.

ByteDance launches e-signature platform, competing with Alibaba, Tencent in SaaS space

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

Meituan, China’s all-in-one local services platform, covers food delivery, travel bookings, and lifestyle deals, simplifying daily consumer choices.

The move comes after major tech companies like Tencent, Ant Financial, and Meituan have all launched similar platforms.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants

What drives global exploration? Discover evolving tourism trends, hospitality services, and the shift toward personalized travel experiences.

Travel

Visual Stories

Consumers aim to save more and spend less in the future after experiencing the economic turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

KEY STAT | Chinese consumption predicted to fall in post-coronavirus era

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Julianna Wu

The system helps to create digital products for multi-party collaborations.

Ant Group

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial invests USD 73.5 million in Myanmar firm Wave Money

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial predicts Chinese online mutual aid market to triple by 2025

China’s public blockchain service network to increase accessibility for global SMEs

CHINA BRIEF| Ant Financial’s MYbank serves 20.9 million small and micro business in 2019, up 70% yearly

Paytm in talks with Microsoft for USD 100 million investment

ByteDance launches e-signature platform, competing with Alibaba, Tencent in SaaS space

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants

KEY STAT | Chinese consumption predicted to fall in post-coronavirus era

CHINA BRIEF | Ant Financial launches blockchain platform for small firms and developers

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