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

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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China&#8217;s Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

KrASIA

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Nikkei Asia

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

Grocery Delivery

KrASIA | Grocery Delivery Archives

On-Demand Services

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

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

Enterprise Services

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

India

From stock cataloging to POS billing solutions to grocery deliveries, the company has adapted quickly to keep with the times.

Perpule's B2C pivots land it in big-box business: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Perpule&#8217;s B2C pivots land it in big-box business: Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

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

E-Commerce

Flexible work opportunities in China are booming, particularly at logistics companies where delivery staff and drivers are in hot demand.

Gig economy gets a boost in China but experts question whether it can be a sustainable fix for unemployment | KrASIA

Gig economy gets a boost in China but experts question whether it can be a sustainable fix for unemployment

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South China Morning Post

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

JD.com aims to develop its neighborhood group-shopping, on-demand delivery, and retail-plus service.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com invests in convenience store chain Fook to complete its retail network | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com invests in convenience store chain Fook to complete its retail network

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Song Jingli

Swiggy

Food Delivery

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Swiggy already delivers grocery through Swiggy Stores, which partners with kirana stores to facilitate grocery delivery in two hours.

Swiggy aims to deliver grocery as fast as food | KrASIA

Swiggy aims to deliver grocery as fast as food

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

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

Shangjia Xiaochengxu aims to help the retail sector to upgrade digitally and seek additional revenue growth.

WeChat Pay launches feature for brick-and-mortar merchants, takes on Meituan and Ele.me | KrASIA

WeChat Pay launches feature for brick-and-mortar merchants, takes on Meituan and Ele.me

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

Yipien runs nearly 900 fresh-food neighborhood supermarkets in 17 cities in China.

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery chain Yipien Fresh closes USD 359 million Series C round led by Tencent and Today Capital | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery chain Yipien Fresh closes USD 359 million Series C round led by Tencent and Today Capital

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

After launching a grocery platform called Langganan, Wahyoo is now preparing its entry into the online catering segment.

Indonesian retail startup Wahyoo snags USD 5 million funding, introduces new business lines | KrASIA

Indonesian retail startup Wahyoo snags USD 5 million funding, introduces new business lines

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Khamila Mulia

The merger comes amid competition in community group-buying sector.

CHINA BRIEF | Group shopping sector sees major merger as Tongcheng Shenghuo joins with FamilyOne | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Group shopping sector sees major merger as Tongcheng Shenghuo joins with FamilyOne

Nice Tuan completed three financing rounds this year alone.

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery group-buying app Nice Tuan bags USD 80 million in latest round | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Grocery group-buying app Nice Tuan bags USD 80 million in latest round

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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