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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

Li Auto develops electric vehicles that combine smart cockpit systems, advanced safety features, and long-distance battery support.

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

Deep Tech

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

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

Semiconductors

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

Transportation

The automaker is opening its chips, silicon carbide modules, and range extenders to third parties as it seeks new revenue sources.

Li Auto spins out chip and silicon carbide businesses to target outside customers

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Cheng Zi is based in China, covering technology- and business-related events. She works with her colleagues at 36Kr Global to provide coverage in both English and Chinese.

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Xpeng Motors builds intelligent EVs equipped with advanced infotainment systems, autonomous features, and sleek electric mobility designs.

Xpeng

How are electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft transforming aviation and urban mobility? Explore how air taxis could redefine travel.

eVTOL Aircraft

Middle East

The Xpeng-backed company’s planned regulatory sandbox advances its eVTOL ambitions in the Middle East.

Aridge plans UAE regulatory sandbox and inter-emirate flying car route

Singapore-based reporter covering tech and business across China and APAC, with a focus on globally relevant stories. Writes under an alias.

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Africa

Two decades in Africa taught Amanbo’s founder that localization is essential to building an e-commerce business on the continent.

Africa’s e-commerce potential comes with a long wait

Newsletters

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

Newsletters | KrASIA

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Southeast Asia

The Uptake | Money Moves. Targeted investing in China's shifting regulatory conditions.

The Uptake | Money Moves

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The Uptake

The Uptake | Eat Better. Everything about agrifood in Singapore.

The Uptake | Eat Better

The Uptake | Big Ideas. How will today's technological advances change how we live tomorrow?

The Uptake | Big Ideas

Startup Wire | Doo Wop. The latest startup briefs from across the Asia Pacific region.

Startup Wire | Doo Wop

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Startup Wire

The Uptake | Give Credit, Take Credit. Crucial policy to make EVs the norm in China.

The Uptake | Give Credit, Take Credit

The Uptake | In the Public Eye. Is a mammoth initial public offering about to take place?

The Uptake | In the Public Eye

Startup Wire | Bulls On Parade. The latest startup briefs from across the Asia Pacific region.

Startup Wire | Bulls On Parade

The Uptake | Corporate Calamity? What do Alibaba's headwinds tell us about the outlook for China's tech companies?

The Uptake | Corporate Calamity?

The Uptake | Jam Session. What happened after Musical.ly merged with TikTok?