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

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

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Some cities have suspended programs earlier than expected.

China races to calm worries over end to USD 42 billion consumer subsidies

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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

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

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

East Asia

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

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. 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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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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T. K. Lin

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

Insights | KrASIA

How do connected devices shape daily life? Examine IoT sensors, data platforms, and security protocols integrating smart tech into homes and cities.

Internet of Things

At present, Roome has accumulated 2 billion sets of data from 500,000 users.

Bringing smart electronics into Chinese homes, Roome completed nearly 100 million RMB in Series A+

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DeFang Tang

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

E-commerce

Social Commerce

social networks

Hawking wares on social networks like Facebook and Instagram isn't going away.

Social commerce still massive and growing across Southeast Asia: report

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Nadine Freischlad

China’s catering industry hits nearly 5 trillion RMB and there are opportunities in different niches.

Will XiaoMai be the next 7-Eleven?

Omnistream

PundiX

SmartRetail

Trax

Even though there's currently an online retail revolution going on in the region, physical retail is still a massive industry.

Which startups are making waves in retail in Southeast Asia?

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Meituan, China’s all-in-one local services platform, covers food delivery, travel bookings, and lifestyle deals, simplifying daily consumer choices.

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

Meituan's ups and downs, and its eventual success.

Looking back on the eve of Meituan IPO: Founder Wang Xing and his infinite game

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KrASIA Writers

What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

The percentage of pets carrying genetic diseases is very high, even more than 40%.

Bioinformagics is entering the booming pet industry in China

The platform uses a designer crowdsourcing model with a resilient supply chain automation.

ICY wants "premium designer brands for all" with close to 100 million RMB in Series A funding

ICY wants &#8220;premium designer brands for all&#8221; with close to 100 million RMB in Series A funding

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

Toy cranes have been a huge investment opportunity.

LeYaoYao landed 200 million RMB Series B financing with plans to launch unmanned toy cranes for offline traffic

Hello Chuxing

Hellobike

Yang Lei

China's smaller bike-sharing competitor to Ofo and Mobike -- Hellobike -- has turned two. It's now Hello Chuxing.

Alibaba raises up Hellobike to "right the wrong" and rival with Didi (internal memo enclosed)

Alibaba raises up Hellobike to &#8220;right the wrong&#8221; and rival with Didi (internal memo enclosed)

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