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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

Dubbed the “Nvidia of China,” Moore Threads is set to become a bellwether of China’s semiconductor sector.

Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape | KrASIA

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Moore Threads moves toward IPO as China’s GPU ambitions take shape

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36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Strong sales of the Mona M03 and P7+ highlight Xpeng’s growing momentum in the EV market.

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs | KrASIA

Xpeng hits its stride with Q3 financial and EV production breakthroughs

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

Longtime managing partner Nisa Leung steps down as Qiming hands the reins to a new leadership trio.

Chinese VC firm Qiming Venture Partners prepares for leadership change | KrASIA

Chinese VC firm Qiming Venture Partners prepares for leadership change

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

KrASIA | JD Archives

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

Alibaba

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Alibaba's newest promotion mirrors a similar play by Pinduoduo in July and August.

Alibaba spurs competition with Pinduoduo by offering 100 million products almost free | KrASIA

Alibaba spurs competition with Pinduoduo by offering 100 million products almost free

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Song Jingli

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Lending

The decision to pursue a US listing bucks the trend of Chinese tech companies choosing exchanges at home.

Ping An-backed fintech unicorn Lufax files for US IPO | KrASIA

Ping An-backed fintech unicorn Lufax files for US IPO

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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Wency Chen

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.

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JD Digits

The run-up to the IPOs of China's largest fintech giants leaves one contemplating the possibility of a head-on crash.

Unpacking Ant Group and JD Digits: an inescapable clash? | KrASIA

Unpacking Ant Group and JD Digits: an inescapable clash?

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Lin Lingyi

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

Grocery Delivery

Tmall Supermarket could improve its delivery efficiency powered by Ele.me's extensive network of delivery riders.

Alibaba links Tmall Supermarket and Ele.me to expand on-demand grocery delivery | KrASIA

Alibaba links Tmall Supermarket and Ele.me to expand on-demand grocery delivery

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

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

With only 2% of Chinese getting rid of used smartphones, JD.com, Tencent, and Alibaba are all making investments in the second-hand market.

What are billions of used phones worth? China's tech giants want to find out | KrASIA

What are billions of used phones worth? China&#8217;s tech giants want to find out

JD Health has grown into China’s largest online pharmacy by revenue and was valued at USD 7 billion as of September 2019.

JD.com to spin off health unit, plans Hong Kong listing | KrASIA

JD.com to spin off health unit, plans Hong Kong listing

Visual Stories

The firm whose business includes facial recognition for pigs is expecting a USD 2.93 billion IPO.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | What JD Digits brings to China's fintech sector with its upcoming IPO | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | What JD Digits brings to China&#8217;s fintech sector with its upcoming IPO

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Julianna Wu

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

Robotics

The firm just received USD 20 million investment in a Series A+ round led by Source Code Capital.

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

The move is Meituan’s second foray into China’s RMB 5 trillion (USD 733 billion) fresh food retailing industry.

JD

Alibaba spurs competition with Pinduoduo by offering 100 million products almost free

Ping An-backed fintech unicorn Lufax files for US IPO

Unpacking Ant Group and JD Digits: an inescapable clash?

Alibaba links Tmall Supermarket and Ele.me to expand on-demand grocery delivery

What are billions of used phones worth? China’s tech giants want to find out

JD.com to spin off health unit, plans Hong Kong listing

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | What JD Digits brings to China’s fintech sector with its upcoming IPO

XYZ Robotics wants to free humans from menial labor inside warehouses: Inside China’s Startups

Meituan plans grocery retail business expansion to cover 1,000 cities and towns in China

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