
China's E-commerce Giants Rush to Provide COVID-19 Tests as Economic Operation Restarts at Home
China's e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo, recently started reservations for COVID-19 testing in multiple cities.
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China's e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba, JD.com, and Pinduoduo, recently started reservations for COVID-19 testing in multiple cities.
The China Foreign Trade Centre confirmed Thursday that China's tech giant Tencent has become the technical service provider for the 127th Canton Fair.
The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation have donated much-needed medical supplies to multiple countries over the past several weeks.
On-demand logistics and delivery company Lalamove is close to completing a $1.5 billion financing round that would bring its valuation to around $10 billion, according to Chinese media.
In early 2019, Xiaomi decided to veer away from a smartphone-centric development strategy and increase its investment in AIoT.
Data from app analytic platform App Annie revealed that the number of mobile app downloads has surged during the first two weeks of February in the Chinese mainland market
Apple only shipped 490,000 iPhones in the past month, down 62% year on year and 78% from a month earlier.
Suning-owned PP Sports has experienced a meteoric rise in traffic over the coronavirus period, during which the content on the platform is free of charge.
Tencent-backed WeDoctor is now offering real-time free COVID-19 consultations, providing both English and Chinese medical services to global users.
Experts are currently foreseeing a decline in China’s economic growth to roughly 5.6% from the already relatively low 6.1%, which will bring global economic growth down by 0.2%.
As the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus becomes an international crisis, the Chinese tech industry is forced to get creative in finding solutions to avoid direct human interactions.