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

China

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

East Asia

Luckin Coffee provides app-based ordering, convenient pickup, and a broad beverage menu, reshaping China’s coffee consumption patterns.

Luckin Coffee

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

Consumer Economy

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

Retail

Coffee

Five years after a financial scandal, China’s leading coffee chain is testing its footing in Starbucks’ home market.

Luckin Coffee tests the waters in the US with two New York stores

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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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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

Bonjour is building an agentic platform that turns tasks into instant transactions—fulfilled by humans today, and AI tomorrow.

Inside Bonjour, a Chinese startup creating the “Upwork of the agent era”

AI Now! is a global AI community of Chinese developers, professionals, and founders.

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AI Now!

What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

Studies are underway to validate the product’s benefits in children who miss elite growth marks but fall outside clinical deficiency.

Growth for all: Agebox’s IGF‑1 sensitizer is designed for kids above clinical thresholds

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

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Advanced driver assistance is now standard across most of BYD’s lineup, setting a new industry benchmark.

BYD fires smart driving salvo with 21-model rollout

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

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GAC has debuted a premium SUV in Singapore to chase market leader BYD.

Chinese EV makers push for luxury models in Southeast Asia

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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, develops large language models and machine learning solutions for enterprise applications and scientific research.

As DeepSeek gains traction, Nvidia stumbles, OpenAI adjusts, and investors weigh the future of AI.

DeepSeek’s open-source AI roils markets, sending tech stocks into a tailspin

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

NetEase

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

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

Creative

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

Entertainment

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

Gaming

Tencent and other game developers are prioritizing overseas expansion.

Chinese companies face growth limits in world's biggest esports market

Chinese companies face growth limits in world&#8217;s biggest esports market

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

Ant Group

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

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

Payments

Middle East

Saudi Arabia

The Chinese fintech giant has opened its first Middle East office and will roll out Antom, its cross-border payment solution, this year.

Ant International sets up in Riyadh, bringing Antom to Saudi businesses

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

Despite a sharp decline in AI inference costs, Baidu’s CEO cautions that the industry still lacks a breakthrough app to justify massive spending.

“You just cannot stop investing,” says Baidu’s Robin Li as AI costs plummet

OpenAI researches advanced AI models, like ChatGPT, contributing to natural language processing, machine learning, and innovation in AI.

OpenAI

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

The OpenAI CEO acknowledged DeepSeek’s achievements but stopped short of calling its approach revolutionary.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman weighs in on DeepSeek, says it did “nice work”

HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, is a venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage startups with high growth potential.

HongShan

US investment curbs and domestic economic woes spur a scramble for global growth.

China-focused private equity funds widen their scope under pressure

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

GAC’s latest GoMate robot taps into automaker tech but is designed for commercial applications beyond assembly lines.