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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.

KrASIA

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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36Kr English

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

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

KrASIA | Tencent Archives

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

The situation is unclear, but some think a complete ban of the app is unlikely.

WeChat users in the US say a potential ban of the app would cut them off from friends and family in China | KrASIA

WeChat users in the US say a potential ban of the app would cut them off from friends and family in China

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

Kuaishou

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

Tencent's last chance to challenge ByteDance's dominance in the short-video sector.

Still in beta-mode but with 200 million users, is 'WeChat Channels' a real threat to Douyin? | KrASIA

Still in beta-mode but with 200 million users, is &#8216;WeChat Channels&#8217; a real threat to Douyin?

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

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

Alibaba

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

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

Live Streaming

Tencent launches feature for selling products directly on WeChat | KrASIA

Tencent launches feature for selling products directly on WeChat

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Song Jingli

Sony

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

Japanese conglomerate to invest USD 250 billion in US developer Epic Games.

Sony partners with 'Fortnite' producer ahead of PS5 launch | KrASIA

Sony partners with &#8216;Fortnite&#8217; producer ahead of PS5 launch

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

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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.

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

MedTech

More than 10 projects, including potential cures for COVID-19, are currently running on iDrug.

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent rolls out AI platform iDrug to shorten research time for new drugs | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tencent rolls out AI platform iDrug to shorten research time for new drugs

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

Social Impact

Alipay and WeChat Pay have almost turned China into a cashless society. The digital yuan might carry it even further.

Will China’s digital yuan pose a threat to the country’s fintech giants? | KrASIA

Will China’s digital yuan pose a threat to the country’s fintech giants?

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Gozde Celik

Edtech

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

While online English learning companies are well-known in China, art tutoring platform Meishubao just closed a Tencent-led C+ round.

More than ESL: Art tutoring startup gets Tencent funding amid China online education boom | KrASIA

More than ESL: Art tutoring startup gets Tencent funding amid China online education boom

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

On-Demand Services

Power bank sharing, a USD 1.1 billion market, started to take off in China around 2017.

Power bank sharing startup Xiaodian prepares for Shenzhen public listing | KrASIA

Power bank sharing startup Xiaodian prepares for Shenzhen public listing

Videos

Yang Geyilang, the dev behind hit game Chinese Parents, talks about how he turned his lifelong love for gaming into a career.

Video | What's it like to be an indie game developer in China? | KrASIA

Video | What&#8217;s it like to be an indie game developer in China?

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