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

Consumer Services

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Once a leader in textile innovation, Uniqlo is struggling to keep pace with shifting consumer demands.

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36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

Discover how Japan’s advanced manufacturing, robotics, and consumer electronics brands drive global technology trends.

Toyota, a Japanese automaker, produces a wide range of vehicles, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and innovation in mobility.

Toyota

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

Electric Vehicles

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

Toyota is banking on a leadership shake-up and a streamlined product lineup to regain its footing in China.

Toyota shakes up its China strategy as sales slip | KrASIA

Toyota shakes up its China strategy as sales slip

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

DeepSeek's low-cost chatbot has shaken markets.

What is AI distillation and what does it mean for OpenAI? | KrASIA

What is AI distillation and what does it mean for OpenAI?

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

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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.

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

ByteDance

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showcases locally popular short videos, influencer content, and creative challenges optimized for China’s market.

Douyin

Taobao, Alibaba’s consumer-to-consumer marketplace, connects Chinese shoppers with diverse products, from fashion and electronics to everyday essentials.

Taobao

TikTok hosts short-form videos spanning entertainment, education, and branded content, capturing global audiences and driving cultural trends.

TikTok

Tmall, Alibaba’s B2C platform, hosts premium brands and official stores, offering authenticated products to Chinese consumers seeking quality goods.

Tmall

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

E-commerce

ByteDance has increasingly threatened e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo as shoppers crave interactive video content and livestreaming.

Alibaba denies that Lazada CEO in Thailand will join ByteDance's e-commerce unit | KrASIA

Alibaba denies that Lazada CEO in Thailand will join ByteDance&#8217;s e-commerce unit

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Song Jingli

After teaming up with JD.com and Pinduoduo, Gome plans to take on market leader Suning. Huang Guangyu, the founder of retail giant Gome, is committed to returning his company to its former glory within the next 18 months, he said at a meeting with company executives on Thursday.

China's former richest man is planning a comeback following jail time | KrASIA

China&#8217;s former richest man is planning a comeback following jail time

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

Tencent

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

It's the latest and biggest financing round in the hot community group-buying field.

Greengrocer Xingsheng Youxuan to bag USD 3 billion from Sequoia, Tencent, others | KrASIA

Greengrocer Xingsheng Youxuan to bag USD 3 billion from Sequoia, Tencent, others

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

Price, product, and push—that’s how Shein does it all.

Shein is edging Zara out of its lane | KrASIA

Shein is edging Zara out of its lane

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JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce leader, ensures trusted transactions, efficient logistics, and a wide product selection for online shoppers.

JD.com

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

JD.com is taking its third subsidiary public.JD.com Inc plans to list its shipping business in Hong Kong, raising potentially billions of dollars to capitalize on China’s post-Covid e-commerce boom.

JD.com plans to list shipping unit to ride e-commerce boom | KrASIA

JD.com plans to list shipping unit to ride e-commerce boom

How can businesses drive positive change? Study policies, ESG strategies, and community initiatives fostering global social advancement.

Social Impact

Experts weigh in on the implications for companies.

China's final rules on internet monopolies leave tech giants with room to maneuver | KrASIA

China&#8217;s final rules on internet monopolies leave tech giants with room to maneuver

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

IDS BuyBuyBuy blends content and e-commerce into a WeChat mini program to lure modern beauty shoppers.

A cross-border cosmetics boutique and beauty brand incubator all within WeChat: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

A cross-border cosmetics boutique and beauty brand incubator all within WeChat: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

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AJ Cortese

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

Where do style and commerce meet? Examine supply chains, sustainable sourcing, and digital trends influencing global fashion markets.

Fashion

The five-year old consumer brand has manufacturing facilities across Germany, Italy, USA, and Korea, besides India, and sells its products globally.

India's D2C brand Sugar Cosmetics closes USD 21 million Series C funding | KrASIA

India&#8217;s D2C brand Sugar Cosmetics closes USD 21 million Series C funding

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Chinese consumers spent USD 78 billion shopping for CNY

Online sales of prepared meals are up 380% year-on-year. With many Chinese citizens not returning to their hometowns this Chinese New Year, e-commerce sites have become even hotter shopping destinations to purchase gifts and essential items for the New Year's Eve dinner.

KEY STAT | Chinese turn to e-commerce for CNY holiday shopping | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Chinese turn to e-commerce for CNY holiday shopping

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Retail

Alibaba denies that Lazada CEO in Thailand will join ByteDance’s e-commerce unit

China’s former richest man is planning a comeback following jail time

Greengrocer Xingsheng Youxuan to bag USD 3 billion from Sequoia, Tencent, others

Shein is edging Zara out of its lane

JD.com plans to list shipping unit to ride e-commerce boom

China’s final rules on internet monopolies leave tech giants with room to maneuver

A cross-border cosmetics boutique and beauty brand incubator all within WeChat: Inside China’s Startups

India’s D2C brand Sugar Cosmetics closes USD 21 million Series C funding

KEY STAT | Chinese turn to e-commerce for CNY holiday shopping

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