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

China Tech

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.

Deep Tech

Robotics

Deep divides between hardware builders and software developers reveal a fragmented robotics field, even as integration emerges as key to future success.

Robotics startups face pecking order struggles as hardware and AI camps clash | KrASIA

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Robotics startups face pecking order struggles as hardware and AI camps clash

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

Cotti Coffee

Coffee

Speaking at the 36Kr WISE2024 summit, Cotti’s chief strategist detailed how pricing and supply chain efficiency are driving the brand’s rapid expansion.

Cotti Coffee maps out plan to make coffee a daily staple in China | KrASIA

Cotti Coffee maps out plan to make coffee a daily staple in China

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

Douyin

Tiktok

Content

Creative

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

Douyin’s e-commerce operations will consolidate under unified management to boost collaboration across merchant tiers.

Douyin E-commerce reorganizes ops to streamline merchant support | KrASIA

Douyin E-commerce reorganizes ops to streamline merchant support

Electric Vehicles

KrASIA | Electric Vehicles Archives

Mobility

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

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

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

Transportation

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

Li Auto is the second China-based EV maker to go public in the US, following Nio.

Hybrid EV maker Li Auto soars nearly 50% on Nasdaq debut after raising USD 1.1 billion in IPO | KrASIA

Hybrid EV maker Li Auto soars nearly 50% on Nasdaq debut after raising USD 1.1 billion in IPO

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Song Jingli

Xpeng files secretly for US IPO; Hillhouse Capital backing Li Auto’s Nasdaq listing.

China’s Tesla challengers, Xpeng and Li Auto, rev up capital-raising drive as the electric car startups target US IPOs | KrASIA

China’s Tesla challengers, Xpeng and Li Auto, rev up capital-raising drive as the electric car startups target US IPOs

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South China Morning Post

Tesla is actively recruiting for five roles centered around customer experience, vehicle repair, and service.

Tesla is quietly hiring in Singapore: Does this signal a launch here? | KrASIA

Tesla is quietly hiring in Singapore: Does this signal a launch here?

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Vulcan Post

Segway-Ninebot applied for an IPO as early as April 17, 2019.

CHINA BRIEF | E-scooter maker Segway-Ninebot to raise USD 298 million in first Star Market CDR offering | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | E-scooter maker Segway-Ninebot to raise USD 298 million in first Star Market CDR offering

Share price surges 60% this year on growing market share.

Fueled by Tesla deal, LG Chem goes full throttle on EV batteries | KrASIA

Fueled by Tesla deal, LG Chem goes full throttle on EV batteries

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

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Nikkei Asia

CATL will use the new funds to build or enlarge its lithium-ion batteries manufacturing plants in the Fujian, Jiangsu, and Sichuan provinces.

CHINA BRIEF | Tesla supplier CATL raises USD 2.8 billion to enlarge production capacity | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Tesla supplier CATL raises USD 2.8 billion to enlarge production capacity

Hillhouse Capital, Sequoia Capital China, Aspex, and Coatue back Xpeng in Series C+ fundraising

Chinese Tesla challenger Xpeng raises USD 500 million from Hillhouse, Sequoia, and others | KrASIA

Chinese Tesla challenger Xpeng raises USD 500 million from Hillhouse, Sequoia, and others

Visual Stories

CATL, a spinoff of ATL an battery marker for Apple, has signed partnership agreements with Tesla and Honda.

KEY STAT | Tesla's battery supplier CATL leads the market with USD 70 billion market cap | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Tesla&#8217;s battery supplier CATL leads the market with USD 70 billion market cap

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Julianna Wu

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

Enterprise Services

leadership

profile

second generation

wang huiwen

wang xing

The co-founder leaves behind a strong legacy.

After establishing Meituan as the biggest on-demand service platform in China, hidden hero Wang Huiwen retires | KrASIA

After establishing Meituan as the biggest on-demand service platform in China, hidden hero Wang Huiwen retires

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