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Fintech

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

Deep Tech

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

China

Seauto’s robots are affordable, durable, and built to undercut the industry’s biggest names.

At USD 90 per unit, Seauto is quietly sweeping the pool robot market

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Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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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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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

Sohu, a Chinese internet company, offers diverse services including news aggregation, online gaming, and video streaming.

Sohu

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

Consumer Economy

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

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

Gaming

Gaming kept Sohu’s margins high, but with weak ad returns and slowing mobile user growth, the company risks being left behind.

Sohu’s ad revenue fades as it clings to gaming for stability

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Sudo Lim

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

E-commerce

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

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

On-demand Services

Hong Kong

Middle East

The logistics platform joins a crowded field but aims to win on transparency, tech, and adaptable delivery services.

With UAE launch, Lalamove bets its SME-first model can scale in the Gulf

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

JD.com

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The e-commerce company's success in China's less-developed areas brings a new round of increase in the quarter past.

KEY STAT | JD.com posts annual profit for first time in 2019

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Julianna Wu

The company reported net revenues of USD 24.5 billion in the fourth quarter, beating the market consensus.

JD.com predicts Q1 net revenue to grow at least 10% year-on-year despite coronavirus threat

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Song Jingli

Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

The country now has six unicorn companies, where three of them are in the e-commerce sector.

JD.id confirms status as Indonesia's sixth unicorn

JD.id confirms status as Indonesia&#8217;s sixth unicorn

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Ursula Florene

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

Pinduoduo revolutionizes e-commerce with social group buying, connecting budget-conscious shoppers to discounts on a broad range of products.

Companies must put in place measures to prevent group infections.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese government urges e-commerce to resume amid effective control for coronavirus

Ele.me, a Chinese online food delivery platform, partners with local restaurants to provide fast, convenient dining options to urban consumers.

Ele.me

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

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 grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

As customer fears about the coronavirus cast a shadow over China’s food delivery industry, several companies have announced robot-delivery related services.

China’s e-commerce giants deploy robots to deliver orders amid coronavirus outbreak

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The move is one of many by companies to help people minimize personal contact during the coronavirus.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com installs Amazon Go-style vending machines in Beijing

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

Videos

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has impacted every aspect of daily life in China.

Video | Five technologies fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus

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James Chan

Business units of Alibaba and JD.com, as well as e-commerce start-up Meicai, have initiated temporary staff recruitment programmes.

E-commerce companies offer temporary jobs to thousands amid coronavirus outbreak

With most Chinese citizens hunkering down at home to wait for the outbreak to subside, some delivery routes are no longer serviceable by normal means.