On Friday, Zhaopin.com announced their annual China Best Employer Award with Tencent as the #1 employer in China. This annual award is jointly issued by Zhaopin and Peking University’s Institute of Social Science Survey. Now in its 11th consecutive year, the award has become a valuable reference for job seekers in China. This year, more than […]
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Is There A Film Industry Bubble? China’s Top Tech-Backed Figures Weigh In
The speed with which the Chinese film industry has developed in recent years has been dizzyingly fast, even for the country’s most experienced veterans. “Less than a decade ago it was the filmmakers who went out looking for financing,” Alibaba Pictures CEO Zhang Qiang told a forum on finance and film at the Shanghai International […]
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Alibaba Pictures Invests in Hangzhou Cinema Company
Alibaba Pictures, the entertainment arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, is investing RMB 100 million (US$15.2 million) for an 80 percent stake in a movie theater operator in its hometown of Hangzhou, as it takes on rival Dalian Wanda. The company will acquire around 61 percent of Hangzhou Xingji from shareholder Hangzhou Kunwei for RMB […]
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Market Snapshot: China’s Highly Consolidated Online Movie Ticketing Market
The Chinese box office has soared in recent years and the growth is projected to continue. The movie ticket sector is a hot target for tech companies who’ve been sniffing around conventional industries for business opportunities. China’s online movie ticket sales as a percentage of total sales reached 75% in July 2015, according to market research firm Eguan and the […]
