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China Tech

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Electric vehicle

xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

China's Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto | KrASIA

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Chery

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end | KrASIA

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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The decade-old "Oriental Leaf Tea" remained Nongfu Spring's driving force in 2023, spearheading the company's growth.

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash | KrASIA

Nongfu Spring’s profits soared in 2023 despite public backlash

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

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

Tencent to acquire stake in Japanese media publisher Kadokawa to boost global presence. The deal marks the largest investment Tencent has made in Japan.

Tencent to acquire stake in Japanese media publisher Kadokawa to boost global presence | KrASIA

Tencent to acquire stake in Japanese media publisher Kadokawa to boost global presence

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Mengyuan Ge

Cloud

Digital Banks

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

Tencent Cloud partners with IT solution developer to transform China’s banks. Yusys already works with Tencent Cloud and develops fintech for 150 banks.

Tencent Cloud partners with IT solution developer to transform China’s banks | KrASIA

Tencent Cloud partners with IT solution developer to transform China’s banks

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Jiaxing Li

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

WeChat tests multiple account registration for users, paving the way for work-life separation in super app. Over 1 billion people in China use WeChat.

WeChat tests multiple account registration for users, paving the way for work-life separation in super app | KrASIA

WeChat tests multiple account registration for users, paving the way for work-life separation in super app

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

Alibaba

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

Content

Content on WeChat and Douyin may become searchable by external parties. Regulators are coaxing tech companies to lift blocks to rival platforms.

WeChat and Douyin content may become searchable by external parties, report says | KrASIA

WeChat and Douyin content may become searchable by external parties, report says

Tencent will create an oversight board for personal privacy protection. It was the subject of intense criticism last week for holding a stake in Futu.

Tencent to establish independent oversight board for personal privacy protection | KrASIA

Tencent to establish independent oversight board for personal privacy protection

Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan steps down as CEO following acquisition by Tencent. Wang said he may start a career in the medical field after his departure.

Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan steps down as CEO following acquisition by Tencent | KrASIA

Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan steps down as CEO following acquisition by Tencent

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

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

Didi

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

Insurance

Didi halts mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations. Major mutual aid platforms have been suspended as regulators rein in tech firms.

Didi suspends mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations | KrASIA

Didi suspends mutual aid service as China tightens fintech regulations

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

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

Major tech companies in China unbrick walled gardens to integrate rival payment services. Alibaba and Tencent are dissolving protectionist features.

Major tech companies in China unbrick walled gardens to integrate rival payment services | KrASIA

Major tech companies in China unbrick walled gardens to integrate rival payment services

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.

Tencent takes Sogou private in acquisition deal. Sogou is China’s second largest search engine with 14.3% of the market share.