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What drives digital storytelling? Examine content creation, distribution channels, and media platforms connecting audiences worldwide.

Content

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

Who thrives in a digitally democratized landscape? Discover how independent creators, influencers, and educators monetize content and expertise.

Creator Economy

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

How do visuals captivate global viewers? Dive into streaming services, production models, and evolving formats defining video engagement.

Video

China

Movies by female directors are breaking through an industry slump and anti-feminist backlash.

Chinese women's market power brings their stories to the big screen

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Chinese women&#8217;s market power brings their stories to the big screen

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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

Consumer Economy

Founded by six young entrepreneurs, Shuai Shuai Fireworks defied expectations with sales exceeding RMB 10 million in its first year.

Six Gen Z founders are reinventing China’s century-old fireworks trade

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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

Retail

The two snack retailers are racing toward IPOs with Mixue-like expansion, but lack its supply chain discipline and margin control.

For Wancheng and Busy Ming, Mixue’s success is both a blueprint and a cautionary tale

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

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

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

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

Enterprise Services

What happens when viewers join in real time? Explore live streaming platforms, audience interaction tools, and brand opportunities in instant video.

Live Streaming

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

Boom in new users has saved online education companies hundreds of billions in advertising, industry insider says.

Coronavirus outbreak opens unprecedented opportunities for China’s online education market

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Sun Henan

The Wuhan-based firm registered a six-fold increase in new users during the coronavirus outbreak, its CEO says.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Google Docs-equivalent Shimo Docs completes Series B+ financing

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

Lark, a workplace collaboration platform by ByteDance, integrates messaging, video conferencing, document sharing, and productivity tools.

Lark

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

The Chinese super app has been accused of abusing its market-dominant position.

WeChat targets ByteDance's collaboration app Feishu in latest restriction

WeChat targets ByteDance&#8217;s collaboration app Feishu in latest restriction

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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Toutiao Search is now available on Android app stores.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance launches standalone search app to take on Baidu

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Visual Stories

Short video becomes a news channel and live-stream platform amid the coronavirus outbreak.

KEY STAT | TikTok surpasses WhatsApp to become the world's most downloaded app in January

KEY STAT | TikTok surpasses WhatsApp to become the world&#8217;s most downloaded app in January

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Apple designs iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers, coupling sleek hardware with robust software ecosystems and service offerings.

Apple

NetEase, a Chinese Internet services firm, offers online gaming, music streaming, and e-commerce platforms, engaging millions of digital users.

NetEase

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

Apple and TikTok maker ByteDance are asking for developers to show game licenses as China tightens its grip on video game publishing.

Why Apple’s new rules for games in China could spell trouble for indies

While ByteDance's Toutiao was the most downloaded news app during the same period.

CHINA BRIEF | TikTok the world's most downloaded app in January with 104.7 million installs

CHINA BRIEF | TikTok the world&#8217;s most downloaded app in January with 104.7 million installs

The company says it will give subsidies to customers who have already paid for the platform.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance makes workplace collaboration tool Feishu free indefinitely

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

Mobile games, short-video apps, and online medical services are some sectors who saw growth.

ByteDance

Coronavirus outbreak opens unprecedented opportunities for China’s online education market

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Google Docs-equivalent Shimo Docs completes Series B+ financing

WeChat targets ByteDance’s collaboration app Feishu in latest restriction

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance launches standalone search app to take on Baidu

KEY STAT | TikTok surpasses WhatsApp to become the world’s most downloaded app in January

Why Apple’s new rules for games in China could spell trouble for indies

CHINA BRIEF | TikTok the world’s most downloaded app in January with 104.7 million installs

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance makes workplace collaboration tool Feishu free indefinitely

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