Pony.ai Q&A: Having a China background will be key to autonomous driving success
Yunqi 2050 aims to equip young people to take action and to become volunteers. Ahead of the event in May, we are taking a look at some the companies an…
Author: Frank Hersey
With D-Alliance, Didi plans to overturn car ownership and manufacturing worldwide
Didi Chuxing is launching a program to alter the very nature of car ownership and shake up the automobile manufacturing supply chain in China—and beyon…
Faster, cheaper, better: How China and AI are helping pharmaceutical development
The process of discovering and developing a new drug typically costs $2-4 billion, takes 10-12 years and fails more than 95% of the time either in clin…
Tencent’s Pony Ma lists ‘1-3-5-7’ odd ways his company will be China’s digital assistant
Tencent CEO Ma Huateng said Tencent can answer the central government’s calls for industrial digitalization by serving as the country’s “digitalization…
Investigation shows personal data from food delivery platforms in China on sale for as little as RMB 0.10
The personal data of people who have ordered food delivery is readily available for sale via several channels, investigative reporting by The Beijing N…
Mobike promises no more bikes in saturated cities, share big data with the government
In its first major statement since being acquired by Meituan, bike rental giant Mobike is to stop adding new bikes to cities considered to be already s…
Nanjing becomes first Chinese city to ban new ride-hailing vehicles
Nanjing is reported to become the first city in China to put temporary controls on the number of vehicles that can be hailed online, according to Jiemi…
“Our staff are ZTE people!” claims Global Times editor as ZTE and China question US dependence
“Tonight Old Hu and Global Times staff are all ZTE people!” wrote Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of both the Chinese (环球时报) and English versions of the Glob…
Alipay trials digital replacement of China’s ubiquitous ID cards
A new system of official digital ID has been integrated with Alipay for making ID-validated purchases such as train tickets and for checking into hotel…
Didi Waimai claims to have become Wuxi’s top food delivery service on first official day
Ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing recently changed lanes to enter China’s vibrant food delivery market. A fleet of mopeds was despatched in Wuxi for the b…
China’s media regulator orders permanent removal of Toutiao’s jokes app
The State Administration of Radio and Television (SAPPRFT) has ordered the permanent closure of Jinri Toutiao’s jokes app Neihan Duanzi (内涵段子 “implied …
Tencent to launch its own smart speaker, enabling WeChat by voice command
Tencent is to launch its own smart speaker that offers functionality from the Tencent family such as sending WeChat messages via voice command and—unli…