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China’s embattled restaurants, embroiled in price war, struggle to stay afloat

In Beijing, profits of the catering companies with annual revenues exceeding 2 million yuan (US$280,750) fell to 180 million yuan…

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ByteDance’s CapCut, Doubao top global AI app downloads, outpacing ChatGPT: report

Video-editing app CapCut recorded 38.42 million downloads in July, while chatbot Doubao achieved 27.45 million downloads to outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…

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JD.com profit surges in second quarter after slashing prices, installing trade-in programme

Chinese online shopping giant JD.com reported a 92 per cent year-on-year jump in quarterly net income to 12.6 billion yuan…

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China hits 100 billion deliveries as couriers grow part and parcel with e-commerce

This equates to an average of 71.43 packages per person, 5,144 packages delivered every second, or 440 million packages moving…

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Chinese AI start-up Moonshot cuts LLM feature price amid fierce domestic competition

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Moonshot AI has halved the price of a new feature on its Kimi large language…

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Opinion | US-China trade war could be the death knell for advanced economies

The US’ China containment strategy and its shift towards re-industrialisation are shrinking the market for competitive industries in high-income economies.…

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ByteDance-owned Douyin said to miss first-half e-commerce sales goal amid weak consumption

ByteDance-owned Douyin, the Chinese version of global hit short video platform TikTok, missed its target gross merchandise value (GMV) in…

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BMW raises prices after China’s brutal discount war fails to boost deliveries

BMW is no longer pursuing a strategy of boosting sales volumes since massive price cuts failed to effectively bolster deliveries…

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China’s second-largest car dealer faces forced delisting as investors snub its shares

China Grand Automotive Service, the mainland’s second-largest car dealer in terms of sales, is set to be expelled from the…

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