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

Consumer Economy

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

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

Transportation

What drives global exploration? Discover evolving tourism trends, hospitality services, and the shift toward personalized travel experiences.

Travel

China

The railway platform already controls China’s largest travel user base, giving it a natural advantage if it expands further into hotels and tourism.

12306 moves beyond tickets as OTA traffic comes under pressure

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Cheng Zi is based in China, covering technology- and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

The new brand targets young male riders seeking speed, handling, and a stronger sense of identity.

China’s Aima bets on Black Wing to broaden the appeal of electric two-wheelers

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Hong Kong

Robotics

Its controller leadership, thin float, and high valuation could make for an unpredictable debut.

5 things to know about Seer Robotics ahead of its Hong Kong IPO

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

WeChat

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

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

E-commerce

Wechat

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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Song Jingli

Meta oversees social networks (like Facebook and Instagram), messaging apps, VR platforms, and digital ads, connecting billions across continents.

Facebook

The Chinese messaging service already has many of the features discussed by Zuckerberg.

Zuck says he regrets not learning from WeChat earlier

Live Streaming

Will Tencent start a tsunami in live-streaming?

Tencent Live tests live-streaming in WeChat

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Luna Lin

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

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

Sending and receiving electric red envelopes posed the biggest pressure to the clearinghouse, followed by shopping and dining.

China’s new centralized clearinghouse handled 4.55 billion online transactions during spring festival

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Fintech

This move is designed to help WeChat close the gap between its 1.08 billion monthly active users and WeChat Pay's 900 million monthly active users.

WeChat Pay is now more convenient for senior citizens

The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered WeChat, Liaotianbao, Duoshan, and Matong to follow legal procedures when adding new functions or publishing new applications.

Major Chinese social media platforms ordered to conduct security evaluations

WeChat exposed partial ID information of 17 accounts to showcase different types of fraudsters, offering cheating information on micro-loans, friends making, stocks and part-time jobs.

WeChat bans more than 6,000 accounts for fraud

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

On Saturday, Tencent's WeChat said it "cleaned up" its social media platform, punishing a slew of apps that the company says failed to obey its code of conduct. Links to ByteDance's news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao were also scrubbed. The following day, ByteDance vice president Li Liang hit back by accusing China's most popular social media app of misusing its dominance.

ByteDance and Tencent squabble over social media ‘clean-up’

Can brief clips hold lasting impact? Analyze short-form content trends, creator communities, and platform strategies for rapid viewer engagement.

Short Video

TikTok

Short-video app Douyin, which is known outside of China as Tik Tok, found that one gateway it relied on for onboarding new users - via WeChat - had been