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To cap off the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Argentina defeated reigning champion France 7-5 (4-2 on penalties) to win the coveted title for the first time in 36 years. Nearly as excited as Argentinian fans were many Chinese sponsors, including NetEase Media, a subsidiary of Chinese internet company NetEase, and others.
At the ninth anniversary of Chinese electronics firm OnePlus on December 17, company founder Pete Lau announced that they are now positioned as a performance-focused brand under OPPO. Additionally, OPPO will invest 10 billion yuan ($1.43 billion) in OnePlus throughout the next three years.
Several Xiaomi employees recently wrote on Chinese career and social networking platform Maimai that during a product launch conference on December 11, roughly 6,000 employees received notices of being laid off.
Jackson He, the senior vice president of Baidu and general manager of the firm's Mobile Ecological Business Group, on December 17 participated in the China pavilion for the second phase of the COP15 to share the firm's innovative exploration and achievements in ecological protection.
Gotion Hi-Tech, a leading Chinese battery firm, signed an agreement on December 15 with Nuovo Plus, an energy solutions company under the Petroleum Authority of Thailand, involving the establishment of a joint venture called NV Gotion Co., Ltd.
Between 5:40 pm and 6:00 pm on December 15, Beijing time, many locals in Jinhua, China's Zhejiang Province posted online that they had witnessed a mysterious bright "fireball" flashing through the sky, and that meteorite parts were suspected to have fallen to the ground.
Since new US export control regulations were released in October, news emerged that leading processor IP provider Arm would cease supplying Chinese chip enterprises, arousing widespread concern in the Chinese tech industry.
Liang Rubo, CEO of Chinese internet technology company ByteDance, said at the All-Hands employee meeting held on December 14 that the company would continue to make structural and personnel adjustments, which will be mild.
The configuration information and photos of the new NIO ES8 electric SUV appeared on December 14. According to Qin Lihong, co-founder and president of NIO, the new car will be launched on NIO Day 2022 on December 24.
Chinese food delivery and local service company Meituan launched its first normalized route of drones at a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) Base in Jinshan District, Shanghai on December 15.
Chinese smartphone maker OPPO unveiled two foldable smartphones on the second day of this year’s INNO DAY 2022. The two models will initially be available only in China with shipping starting on December 23 for Find N2 and December 30 for Find N2 Flip.
For almost three years now, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated many people's preexisting mental health problems, and mental health apps of various types have emerged, attracting considerable investment.
Since the global surge in use of ChatGPT, a prototype chatbot developed by San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, many related mini-programs have appeared on Tencent's WeChat app popular in China, although they now appear to have been restricted.
China's leading battery firm CATL and Shenzhen-based tech giant Huawei signed a new memorandum of cooperation in Ningde, Fujian Province on December 14.
Nature, one of the world's top science journals, released its "Nature's 10" list of 2022 on December 14. Chinese genomics researcher Yunlong (Richard) Cao was named in the list. He helped track the evolution of the novel coronavirus and predicted some mutations that led to a new variant.
Fabrie, an online collaboration tool for the global design market, has recently completed a pre-A+ round of financing, led jointly by CDH Investments and Sequoia China Seed Fund, followed by Volcanics Venture and BAI Capital.
SinoHytec, a hydrogen fuel cell engine manufacturer based in China, recently passed a listing hearing for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. With this move, SinoHytec will become the first firm in the hydrogen energy field to be publicly traded in Hong Kong.
At the 39th Thailand International Motor Expo, which lasted for 13 days, Chinese brand BYD unveiled seven models. On December 12, the closing day of the auto show, the BYD APP was officially launched in the country.