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Pop Mart and other Chinese brands are seeing soaring sales in Southeast Asia, fueled by the region’s young, eager consumers.

Southeast Asia is the next playground for trendy toys, and brands are cashing in | KrASIA

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Southeast Asia is the next playground for trendy toys, and brands are cashing in

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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36Kr English

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

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

On-Demand Services

With a 20% jump in deliveries during Southeast Asia’s 9.9 mega sales, J&T is proving its logistical muscle.

J&T Express doubles down on infrastructure as parcel volumes soar | KrASIA

J&#038;T Express doubles down on infrastructure as parcel volumes soar

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KrASIA Writers

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Deep Tech

Semiconductors

US sanctions were meant to stifle China’s tech progress, yet the gap is closing faster than expected as China pushes toward self-sufficiency.

Can US sanctions really hold back China’s chipmaking ambitions? | KrASIA

Can US sanctions really hold back China’s chipmaking ambitions?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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 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&#8217;s largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

KrASIA | Wechat Archives

Tencent

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

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated China’s collection of big data, especially for contact tracing.

WeChat, Alipay deny helping government identify 350,000 users who visited Beijing food market | KrASIA

WeChat, Alipay deny helping government identify 350,000 users who visited Beijing food market

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South China Morning Post

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

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

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

Didi

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.

Life can be problematic in China without a smartphone.

I've lost my phone, now what? | KrASIA

I&#8217;ve lost my phone, now what?

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.

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

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

E-Commerce

climate change

coronavirus

COVID-19

environment

The coronavirus has provided economies around the world with a chance for reflection.

Could COVID-19 prompt more sustainable innovation to fight climate change in China? | KrASIA

Could COVID-19 prompt more sustainable innovation to fight climate change in China?

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AJ Cortese

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Live Streaming

The press conference will be held in the form of videoconference and livestreamed via a mini app on WeChat, also broadcast live by state media CCTV.

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Premier Li's Two Sessions press conference to go online to safeguard public health | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Premier Li&#8217;s Two Sessions press conference to go online to safeguard public health

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Song Jingli

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Visual Stories

Tencent's enterprise version of WeChat saw huge user growth during the outbreak period as it embraced the transition to remote work.

KEY STAT | 220 million people hosted online meetings on WeChat Work | KrASIA

KEY STAT | 220 million people hosted online meetings on WeChat Work

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Julianna Wu

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.

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Entertainment

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Bytedance is a latecomer in the IoV sector filled with players including Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu.

ByteDance steers into automobile sector with plans to integrate Douyin and Toutiao into cars | KrASIA

ByteDance steers into automobile sector with plans to integrate Douyin and Toutiao into cars

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

PUBG mobile

Tencent gaming revenue, aided by a gaming consumption boom, has allowed the company to withstand COVID-19 headwinds and look to the future.

Tencent gaming revenue growth pushes company past Q1 expectations | KrASIA

Tencent gaming revenue growth pushes company past Q1 expectations

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5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

5G messaging represents an upgrade over traditional SMS and is one reason that telecom giants are eager to adopt Rich Communication Services.

China Mobile offers glimpse into Rich Communication Services future with first '5G messaging' app | KrASIA

China Mobile offers glimpse into Rich Communication Services future with first &#8216;5G messaging&#8217; app

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

Food Delivery

SF Holdings unveiled the Fengshi WeChat mini program, targeting corporate clients and individual consumers for food deliveries.

Wechat

WeChat, Alipay deny helping government identify 350,000 users who visited Beijing food market

I’ve lost my phone, now what?

Could COVID-19 prompt more sustainable innovation to fight climate change in China?

CHINA BRIEF | Chinese Premier Li’s Two Sessions press conference to go online to safeguard public health

KEY STAT | 220 million people hosted online meetings on WeChat Work

ByteDance steers into automobile sector with plans to integrate Douyin and Toutiao into cars

Tencent gaming revenue growth pushes company past Q1 expectations

China Mobile offers glimpse into Rich Communication Services future with first ‘5G messaging’ app

China’s largest private courier SF Holdings enters food delivery sector, challenging Meituan and Ele.me

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