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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.

Robotics

Beijing is prioritizing the sector as a major growth engine.

Can China repeat its EV success in humanoid robots? | KrASIA

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Can China repeat its EV success in humanoid robots?

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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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

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

Consumer Services

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

Logistics

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

On-demand Services

With trade tensions rising, companies are turning to offshore structures to stay nimble—and stay in business.

As tariffs bite, exporters explore offshore trade setups | KrASIA

As tariffs bite, exporters explore offshore trade setups

I'm Xiaochun with 36Kr Global [kri’eɪʃə], a newborn digital media with a dedication to help Asia uncover its innovations and to create.

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Xiaochun Zhao

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

Creative

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

Fashion

A crop of Chinese handbag brands are skipping the logos and rewriting the luxury playbook, hoping design and storytelling can go where status once ruled.

Can China make its own luxury handbags—and make us believe in them? | KrASIA

Can China make its own luxury handbags—and make us believe in them?

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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

Toyota

Toyota | KrASIA Archives

East Asia

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

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

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Shuttl’s current valuation has peaked to USD 200 million.

Toyota Group and Japan’s SMBC Trust Bank invest in Indian bus-hailing startup Shuttl | KrASIA

Toyota Group and Japan’s SMBC Trust Bank invest in Indian bus-hailing startup Shuttl

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Priya Pradeep

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

Google dominates online search, digital ads, and cloud solutions, powering discovery, analytics, and smartphone operating systems.

Google

Pony.ai develops self-driving technologies for cars and trucks, collaborating with automakers to bring safer, fully autonomous mobility to public roads and fleet services worldwide.

Pony.ai

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

The Chinese startup claims it has been testing its autonomous robotaxi service, PonyPilot, in Guangzhou since late last year.

Pony.ai, founded by autonomous driving pioneers from Google and Baidu, partners with Toyota on self-driving tests | KrASIA

Pony.ai, founded by autonomous driving pioneers from Google and Baidu, partners with Toyota on self-driving tests

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Song Jingli

Didi, a Chinese mobility platform, connects riders to taxis, private cars, and ride-sharing options, integrating AI-driven route optimization.

Didi

Toyota to invest USD 600 million in Didi Chuxing and their Japanese JV | KrASIA

Toyota to invest USD 600 million in Didi Chuxing and their Japanese JV

What extends a car’s lifecycle beyond the showroom? Investigate spare parts, performance upgrades, and services fueling the secondary automotive market.

Automotive Aftermarket

Toyota aims for half of its global sales to be from EV by 2025

Toyota to invest USD 2 billion to develop EV manufacturing in Indonesia | KrASIA

Toyota to invest USD 2 billion to develop EV manufacturing in Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

But the Chinese startup was reportedly facing huge financial difficulties last year.

Toyota to sell EV technology to Singulato in exchange for green car credits | KrASIA

Toyota to sell EV technology to Singulato in exchange for green car credits

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