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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

Deep Tech

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

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The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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Tencent, a Chinese tech conglomerate, invests in gaming, social media, and cloud services, supporting entertainment and connectivity worldwide.

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ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

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This formation links up with sentiments shared by the highest political office in the country.

Tencent Games leads new partnership to promote scientific education

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Shuidi

Shuidi has three businesses that help patients handle hefty medical bills.

Tencent leads in Series B round for Chinese patient-centric business Shuidi

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Song Jingli

WeChat, Tencent’s superapp, combines messaging, social media, mobile payments, and mini-programs, streamlining daily tasks for over a billion users.

WeChat

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

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Not only does this move allow Tencent to step further into e-commerce, it also encourages additional usage of its e-wallet.

Tencent rolls out logistics interface for vendors on WeChat

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It's a new measure to prevent gaming addiction among school children

Tencent gives teachers access to their students' gaming usage data

Tencent gives teachers access to their students&#8217; gaming usage data

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Scratch

Tencent Games has announced a cooperation with Scratch, the programming playground developed by MIT Media Lab to help kids learn how to code. The

Tencent Games partners with Scratch, the MIT Media Lab tool that teaches kids how to code

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

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

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Suning

Neither tech companies nor old-school car makers can win the future mobility market alone, which means collaboration is a rising trend.

Alibaba, Tencent, Suning, and several Chinese automakers formed an alliance to invest in smart mobility

Beike

Chinese internet firms are after the land you stand on.

Tencent invests $800 million in Beike's Series D (updated)

Tencent invests $800 million in Beike&#8217;s Series D (updated)

Lianjia

The feature will put Beike in front of over a billion pairs of eyeballs.

Tencent-backed Beike makes it onto prime WeChat real estate

Domestic growth has been curtailed by regulatory restrictions.