In the 14th Five-Year Plan, China will offer more targeted measures to address pain points in the country’s plan for massive EV adoption.
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DRIVE I/O | China has 6 million aging EV batteries. Can it recycle them?
With high costs, and competition from cheaper pirate recyclers, it will take more carrots and sticks for the battery recycling market to take off.
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CHINA VOICES | Crisis at Danke has China worrying about out of control fintech
As “second landlord” platform Danke Apartment teeters, tens of thousands of its tenants are facing eviction.
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INSIGHTS | 996 in retreat?
More Chinese people are dissatisfied with overtime schedules and voting against “996” with their feet. Bytedance and Kuaishou could start a wave of reforms.
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A delivery driver’s tale
Wang Haijia ruminates over the time he has spent as a delivery driver, highlighting the dangers of the job and comparing it to other work.
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Taobao removes Animal Crossing listings from its marketplace
The removal of Animal Crossing came just days after reports that Hong Kong protestors posted anti-government posters on the game’s simulator.
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How a Chinese food delivery app is gambling on nostalgia
Hungry Panda is exporting the Chinese food delivery model to homesick students abroad. But is it just an overseas clone of Eleme?
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Has anyone seen your health code lately?
As life in China returns to normal, TechNode correspondents in Shanghai have gone weeks without displaying a health code.
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CHINA VOICES | Tech in the crosshairs on CCTV consumer rights day
A focus on tech in an annual consumer rights broadcast underlines changing attitudes to privacy and other hot-button tech issues in China.
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Insights | Why ‘996’ just won’t go away
996 is still a problem in China’s tech industry. It’s brutal to employees, and it’s questionable whether overtime work pays off even for companies.
