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(Variety) Chinese director Jia Zhangke has formally launched his new venture: a filmmaking school in his native Shanxi staffed by some of China’s top industry talent, including helmers Ning Hao and Bi Gan.Communist Party officials presided over an inauguration ceremony for the Shanxi Film Academy that was attended by major firms…

  Key Takeaways: Alibaba-owned retail platform Tmall is launching new solutions for global brands interested in selling via the platform. SMEs will gain expanded access to large amounts of data and insight. Consumers should profit from the new model since they’ll have a greater selection of quality goods and will be…

At first, it might have sounded like manna from heaven. Chinese authorities announced they would be distributing more than $1 million to a select number of citizens, as part of a test of its new currency: a digital yuan that could be easily spent almost anywhere. Reports out of China…

Alibaba’s Hema Jishi community group-buying mini program has gone live on WeChat, in a rare move to leverage its rival Tencent’s ecosystem. There is no standalone app for the service and the mini program is not yet available for Beijing residents, but it is live elsewhere, like in Zhengzhou, the capital…

Alibaba's booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 30, 2019 in Shanghai. (Image credit: TechNode/Shi Jiayi) Alibaba has launched a mini app for its community group buy platform on rival Tencent’s instant messaging platform WeChat, Chinese media noticed on Friday. The mini program, Hema Market (our translation), was…

One of the more slogging UFC cards in recent memory. A couple cool finishes early on unfortunately failed to set the tone for action, and every fight after the first three went to a decision. Fortunately, Robert Whittaker put a bow on the whole night with a stellar performance over…

Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signaled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing's scrutiny of its business, according to a source familiar…

Ant Group is exploring options for founder Jack Ma to divest his stake in the financial technology giant and give up control, as meetings with Chinese regulators signalled to the company that the move could help draw a line under Beijing’s scrutiny of its business, according to a source familiar…

Tencent’s ultra-modern headquarters loom over Shenzhen’s Nanshan District. (Image credit: TechNode/Jiayi Shi) Tencent, Didi Chuxing, and Alibaba’s grocery unit joined Chinese tech peers in promising on Thursday to uphold rules against anticompetitive behavior amid a sweeping crackdown across the sector that began with e-commerce giant Alibaba. Why it matters: In…

A Tmall advertisement promotes the brand in a Shanghai mall on March 22, 2019. (Image credit: TechNode/Cassidy McDonald) E-commerce platform Tmall said that it will change its store-opening policies in an effort to lower merchant costs, just days after Chinese regulators penalized parent company Alibaba for anticompetitive behavior. Why it…