Internet giant Alibaba and leading university Peking University have joined forces to set up a new consumer index, the China Online Consumer Brand Index (CBI). Consumer expert Ashley Dudarenok highlights how the attitude of consumers has shifted in the world’s second economy over the past few years, as noted in Jing Daily.Read More →
A decade ago, China launched its ambitious “Made in China 2025”. And while the phrase has disappeared, the industrial ambitious have no, writes China veteran Kaiser Kuo at the World Economic Forum. Today, that strategy appears to be entering a new phase — one we might call “Made in China 2.0,” he says. Read More →
Technology veteran Kaiser Kuo explains how AI developments with DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot AI, and iFlyTek emerged as winners in China’s technology scene. Especially, the coordination between the state, the market, and academia helps technology to move in the same direction, he adds at the World Economic Forum.Read More →
Gen Z is now about 25% of China’s workforce and is dramatically changing the country’s consumer habits, says marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok in her vlog. Social commerce is key, she argues, especially now that consumer spending is low anyway.Read More →
With three billion IOT (Internet Of Things) connections, China is leading this digital industry globally, says innovation expert Ashley Dudarenok at her vlog. “Supported by an impressive 11.9 million mobile stations, China has the infrastructure to dominate this space, she adds.Read More →
Economic and geopolitical pressure are changing the ways China’s KOLs are changing their strategies, says branding expert Ashley Dudarenok in the Jing Daily. “Amid these challenges, many KOLs are pivoting to create their own brands,” she writes.Read More →
Global VC William Bao Bean, Managing General Partner at Orbit Startups, tells how the lessons learned in China helped him now to invest in emerging markets, and how he moved since 2018 from China into those emerging markets. In a wide-ranging interview with marketing guru Ashley Dudarenok.Read More →
US IT firms are wrongly pushing President Donald Trump to sanction winning Chinese companies like DeepSeek instead of trying to compete on a level playing field, says Shanghai-based business analyst Shaun Rein at the Thinkers Forum. Sanctions and tariffs are shooing the US in the foot as China develops its own industries instead of buying it in the US.Read More →
China’s lunar new year is usually the time of the year consumers spend their money, but business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, saw this year consumer spending was low, very low, he tells CNBC. An exception is investing in China’s tech companies, who are successfully fighting US sanctions, he adds, at least among the movers and shakers in China.Read More →
Former Alibaba employee Sharon Gai, author of “Ecommerce Reimagined: Retail and E-commerce in China”, is an expert on how Western apps and those from China differ from each other. Now that Rednote, formerly known as Xiaohongshu, has become an alternative for Tiktok, she takes the opportunity to dive into this issue again in her vlog.Read More →
Marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok explains on her TikTok channel that drones have become a common feature in China and will change the country even more in the next two to three years.Read More →
Increasingly global brands not only look at China as a potential market but also as a guide on how they can use the country’s digital transformation for their global ambitions, writes marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok on her website Chozan. “By this year, China’s digital transformation sector is expected to reach $221.95 billion. It is forecasted by Mordor Intelligence to expand to $410.67 billion by 2029, with an annual growth rate of 13.1% over these years,” she writes.Read More →