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Inside China Tech
Inside China Tech is brought to you by the South China Morning Post's on-the-ground reporters who explore China's ever-evolving tech scene, bringing essential tech background, trends, and analysis from China straight to listeners.
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Post-Covid-19 world: are online services set to take over?
The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth and transformation of online services and consumption as a result of the Covid-19 crisis – are online...
How technology has changed the way we die and mourn
People around the world are adapting how they mourn their loved ones amid the coronavirus pandemic. Live-streaming funerals are being organised, while...
Why Huawei has found itself at the epicentre of the US-China tech war
SCMP reporters dissect why Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has found itself in Washington's cross-hairs and where matters might go from here. You can re...
Online learning: Has the pandemic democratised education in China?
In China, one way or another, at least 260 million students and 15 million teachers had to migrate their entire offline learning and teaching activiti...
TikTok vs Douyin: why does China have its own TikTok?
We're digging deep into China's version of TikTok called Douyin. How different is Douyin from its international version TikTok? Why are there two almo...
How China has turned to tech like never before to combat the coronavirus
The impact of the countrywide lockdown on the economy has the potential to cut China’s GDP growth in the first quarter from 6 to 4.5 per cent. However...
Life under coronavirus lockdown: personal accounts from two tech reporters
Two of the Post's tech reporters are among the hundreds of millions of people whose lives have been directly affected by the coronavirus lockdown. Rep...
What on earth is TikTok? We spent a day with a TikTok star
To better understand how TikTok works in domestic and international markets, our producer Yang Yang went to visit TikTok stars with millions of follow...
How to (re)introduce plant-based meat to China
China is no stranger to vegetarian food. If anything, the Chinese have invented countless vegetarian dishes that imitate meat throughout their centuri...
Leaders in Tech: Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang on what's trending and what's next
E-commerce giant Alibaba started trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange on November 26, 2019. The company raised a whopping US$13 billion, making it...
Singles’ Day explained
On November 11, also known as Singles’ Day, more than US$38 billion was spent in 24 hours on Alibaba’s e-commerce platforms alone — that’s more than B...
Leaders in Tech: what's spectrum and why does it matter for 5G?
This week on Inside China Tech we look at why – for the first time – 5G has to tap into extremely high radio frequencies and why space agencies think...
What can China’s DNA tests really tell you?
What are China’s DNA testing companies doing differently? What do your DNA test results really mean? We speak to 23Mofang’s CEO, and a geneticist from...
Leaders in Tech: Yamibuy's Alex Zhou on building a US$100 million business on homesickness
Alex Zhou, chief executive of US-based e-commerce site Yamibuy, has built a business out of selling hard-to-find items for Asian immigrant communities
Leaders in Tech: Self-driving cars in China
We talked to Jianxiong Xiao, the founder and CEO of AutoX, a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles
Leaders in Tech: How to create a successful podcast platform with lessons learnt from China
Castbox CEO Renee Wang looked to China for inspiration and then sold her idea around the world.
Inside a Chinese internet addiction treatment centre
SCMP visits one of China’s treatment centres for internet addicts more than a decade after such a disorder was classified as an official disease.
How AI counts accurate crowd numbers in Hong Kong protests
AI concluded that 265,000 people joined the protest on July 1, while organisers said 550,000 people marched and the police estimated it was 190,000.
Leaders in Tech: How CEO of Sandbox VR bet life savings on creating hyper-realistic VR games
How Steve Zhao staked his life savings for ten years to create a real-life holodeck.
Trailer: We thought VR was just hype till we tried Sandbox VR
Next episode on ICT, we try Sandbox VR games and learn about how Steve Zhao, CEO of Sandbox VR, staked his life savings to create a real-life Holodeck...
China still can’t compete with Silicon Valley. Can it ever catch up?
What makes Silicon Valley the global hub of innovation and will China ever catch up?
Trailer: Does top-down, state-led innovation work?
Silicon Valley was seeded with funding for military research at Stanford University.
Talking to people in China’s Silicon Valley amid the tech war
China’s Silicon Valley caught in crossfire of tech war as country’s most advanced technologies, from AI to drones and robotics, being developed in the...
Here's how the US-China tech war is affecting small electronics companies
How much does the trade war affect small suppliers and distributors, and does China depend more on the US for its technology industry, or vice versa?
How facial recognition tech facilitates China’s surveillance
State surveillance camera makers largely benefited from the rise in demand for the technology after 9/11 terror attacks.
Explaining the blockchain revolution in China and how it's changing global banking
Venture capitalist and China tech expert Edith Yeung looks at how Beijing is embracing blockchain and its different approach to the West
Doors to America closing for Chinese graduates in hi-tech fields
The growing number of Chinese students in hi-tech fields face tightening US visa controls.
Exploring China’s rapidly evolving e-commerce landscape
We dive into the world of influencer marketing and Pinduoduo’s business model.
Analysing what’s behind the 996 GitHub protest in China
Millennial workers protesting against the grueling work schedules in China’s tech companies.
How live-streaming in China is monitored and censored
Analysing how one of China’s biggest live-streaming companies manages and censors the content from its 250 million monthly users, from cigarettes to c...
Razer CEO on tattoos, Tencent and why he hates some tech CEOs
We talk about how a love for gaming built the world's biggest gaming gear company, while its CEO continues to play games all night long.
Talking e-commerce with Lazada Group president Yin Jing
Talking e-commerce, livestreaming for vendors and last mile delivery logistics with the head of Lazada Group, and whether China’s methods of connectin...
The AI startup using brand and gait recognition for marathon runners
Zen Soo speaks with Miro founder and CEO Taylor Hun about facial recognition technology at marathon running events and how companies are using the dat...
Meituan vs Ele.me: what’s next in China’s food delivery battle?
China’s app-based business model has set the scene for intense rivalry between tech giants: Meituan and Ele.me compete for market dominance.
Analysing China’s Two Sessions and the influence of tech company chiefs
What was announced - and what was left unsaid - at China’s annual political summit and policy meetings in Beijing.
The 2019 Mobile World Congress and what next for foldable phones
On the scene at the 2019 MWC in Barcelona and debating the state of the foldable phone revolution: are they fad, farce or foundational change for smar...
2019 Mobile World Congress preview - is it the Year of the Foldables?
Senior analyst Bryan Ma from IDC Asia Pacific tells us why he thinks foldable phones will dominate at Barcelona this year, and takes a deeper look at...
Analysing China’s race with the US for AI dominance
In the race to develop AI, how does China compare with the US? And how is this affected by the Huawei and ZTE bans – and the US-China trade war?
How technology is changing Lunar New Year
Zen Soo and Chua Kong Ho look at how technology has changed the Lunar New Year celebrations in China: from digital red envelopes to online market stal...
Analysing the Huawei case
Zen Soo speaks with economist, author and academic Christopher Balding about the Huawei case, its impact on the company and its broader implications f...