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

China

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

East Asia

Mixue Bingcheng runs beverage shops, leveraging mobile ordering and social commerce to serve refreshing drinks and desserts.

Mixue Bingcheng

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

Consumer Economy

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

Retail

Closures in Indonesia and Vietnam mark growing pains, but domestic scale, coffee, and new supply hubs give the group fresh momentum.

Mixue trims abroad, doubles down at home, and brews up Lucky Cup’s rise

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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 lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Used in everything from humanoid robots to pool cleaners, RobStride’s modules are becoming the unseen foundation of China’s embodied intelligence wave.

RobStride builds the joints that keep China’s robots moving, and a thriving industry around them

Coffee

A buyer is expected to be chosen by October.

Brewing takeover: Four firms in final race to buy Starbucks China

Huawei, a global telecom and smartphone vendor, delivers networking equipment, 5G solutions, and consumer devices integrating cutting-edge tech.

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

Enterprise Services

What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

Huawei’s wolves: Li Jiang unpacks his sales team’s culture of "guerrilla" sales tactics and winning at all costs, tracking early days to the present.

Huawei’s wolves: Li Jiang unpacks his sales team’s culture of winning at all costs

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Huawei adds two young prodigies in crucial recruitment drive

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

Gree strikes deal with Huawei to use HarmonyOS in home appliances. Brands like Midea, Supor, and Joyoung already embed Huawei’s software in their products.

Gree strikes deal with Huawei to use HarmonyOS in home appliances

Honor designs smartphones and wearables, balancing price and performance for a tech-savvy, value-focused audience.

Honor

What fits the world in your pocket? Track device innovation, OS ecosystems, and connectivity shaping smartphone usage.

Smartphones

After gaining independence from Huawei, Honor is now released from tech restraints, free to flex its muscles, and ready to make a name for itself in the highly-contested Chinese smartphone sector.

Can Honor stand on its own after its separation from Huawei?

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Qianyu Han

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

How does information move at light speed? Review 5G rollouts, fiber networks, and connectivity standards advancing global communication.

Telecommunications

Huawei has opened hundreds of positions worldwide related to artificial intelligence algorithms, autonomous vehicle engineering, chip development, and quantum computing.

Huawei enlists army of European talent for 'battle' with US

Huawei enlists army of European talent for &#8216;battle&#8217; with US

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Nikkei Asia

Embattled Chinese company aims to update 200 million handsets with Google replacement. Huawei aims to have 200 million existing handsets switch from Google's Android operating system to its own HarmonyOS by the end of the year.

Huawei to bring in-house HarmonyOS to smartphones

Xiaomi crafts affordable smartphones, wearables, and IoT devices, appealing to users who seek innovation, quality, and budget-friendly tech.

Leading Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is ramping up its investment in chips as the US clampdown on compatriot Huawei Technologies spurs a national campaign to reduce China's reliance on foreign technology.Xiaomi bought or significantly increased stakes in at least 34 Chinese chip-related companies from 2019 through this March, a Nikkei Asia analysis of business data shows. It also added stakes in nearly 25 other tech hardware companies beyond semiconductors. The targets include chip developers and chip equipment makers, startups as well as makers of advanced displays, camera lenses and automation, and precision equipment.

Huawei rival Xiaomi ramps up chip ambitions amid US pressure

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

Huawai has gained a mobile payment license in China after buying Shenzhen Xunlian Zhifu Network from Shanghai Wo Rui Ou Information Technology Co., Ltd., China Securities Journal reported on Sunday

Huawei gains payment license after latest acquisition

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Song Jingli

The 5G business offsets a loss in the smartphone division. Despite a ban from 5G projects in the US and increased pressure in Europe, Chinese telco giant Huawei managed to clinch over 1,000 contracts across more than 20 industries in the past year, said deputy chairman Ken Hu on Tuesday.

KEY STAT | Huawei keeps growing its 5G business in spite of sanctions

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