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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

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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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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Xpeng

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

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

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

Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, JD.com, Didi, and Ele.me are among the 14 companies

Following labor dispute scandals, trade union urges China's top internet companies to prioritize employees | KrASIA

Following labor dispute scandals, trade union urges China&#8217;s top internet companies to prioritize employees

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Song Jingli

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Deloitte forecast that China’s online pharmacy sector will be worth RMB 400 billion (USD 57 billion) in 2020.

JD’s health care unit vaults into second position for new unicorns with USD 7 billion valuation | KrASIA

JD’s health care unit vaults into second position for new unicorns with USD 7 billion valuation

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ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

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

Visual Stories

2019 turns out to be an eventful year for Chinese tech tycoons. Hear what those who rein in the powerhouses have to say to wrap up the year.

Infographic | What did the bosses say about China tech 2019 | KrASIA

Infographic | What did the bosses say about China tech 2019

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Julianna Wu

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

E-Commerce

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Live Streaming

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

The bi-annual internet report published by the Chinese government provides insights of various internet sectors’ current developments.

Doing it all: How the Chinese internet has changed over the decade | KrASIA

Doing it all: How the Chinese internet has changed over the decade

The platform promises grocery deliveries within one hour.

JD.com and Walmart-backed O2O retail platform JD Daojia speeds up expansion in China | KrASIA

JD.com and Walmart-backed O2O retail platform JD Daojia speeds up expansion in China

Online retail sales in China are expected to hit USD 1.5 trillion by the end of 2019.

Meet some major Chinese e-commerce players that you've never heard of | KrASIA

Meet some major Chinese e-commerce players that you&#8217;ve never heard of

The company will have an estimated value of over RMB 2 billion after this funding round.

Exclusive | JD-backed IT equipment leasing company Little Bear Rental secures funding from Tencent | KrASIA

Exclusive | JD-backed IT equipment leasing company Little Bear Rental secures funding from Tencent

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Sun Henan

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

The Japanese games company partners with Tencent to clear regulatory hurdles.

Nintendo to market Switch console in China | KrASIA

Nintendo to market Switch console in China

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Tech companies are laying the groundwork to serve the silver generation for years to come.

Chinese tech firms look to senior “digital refugees” for new growth in a rapidly aging nation | KrASIA

Chinese tech firms look to senior “digital refugees” for new growth in a rapidly aging nation

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JD

Following labor dispute scandals, trade union urges China’s top internet companies to prioritize employees