Inside China Tech

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.

Episodes

Post-Covid-19 world: are online services set to take over?

June 2, 2020 • 27 mins
The world is witnessing an unprecedented growth and transformation of online services and consumption as a result of the Covid-19 crisis – are online services taking over the globe completely, and what changes will stick around? Further, will the rollout of ultra-fast 5G networks enhance this trend?  
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How technology has changed the way we die and mourn

May 12, 2020 • 30 mins
People around the world are adapting how they mourn their loved ones amid the coronavirus pandemic. Live-streaming funerals are being organised, while social media accounts of the dead are being transformed into virtual memorial pages. However, one's digital presence can be vulnerable. On this episode, we look into how technology has changed the way we die and mourn. Music courtesy of DK (Unfinished Farewell) Cover design courtes...
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Why Huawei has found itself at the epicentre of the US-China tech war

April 20, 2020 • 34 mins
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 read more about Huawei in a series of in-depth articles from the Post.
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Online learning: Has the pandemic democratised education in China?

April 4, 2020 • 19 mins
In China, one way or another, at least 260 million students and 15 million teachers had to migrate their entire offline learning and teaching activities online. Digital educational centres, applications and tools have seen a surge in demand. National curriculum classes are being recorded by teachers across all forms, and are being broadcasted on TV for free. We look into the technologies that facilitate this migration and ask: are ...
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TikTok vs Douyin: why does China have its own TikTok?

March 11, 2020 • 22 mins
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 almost-identical apps out there? And how are Chinese people using Douyin differently from users of TikTok? To truly understand Douyin, we attended a weekend class that costs about US$1,400 in Shenzhen, China, about how to get rich on the app.
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How China has turned to tech like never before to combat the coronavirus

February 26, 2020 • 23 mins
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, new tech opportunities and markets are emerging under the pressure of the public health emergency and tech companies in China are pulling out all the stops in helping the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease as well as facilitating the continuation of people’s daily...
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Life under coronavirus lockdown: personal accounts from two tech reporters

February 11, 2020 • 18 mins
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. Reporter Celia Chen, who’s based in Shenzhen, China, and couldn’t go back home to Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province and the epicentre of the outbreak, talks about how her family spent this Lunar New Year bonding over news and mobile apps. Another tech reporter, Jane Zhang is goin...
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What on earth is TikTok? We spent a day with a TikTok star

January 21, 2020 • 19 mins
To better understand how TikTok works in domestic and international markets, our producer Yang Yang went to visit TikTok stars with millions of followers - one is a 16-year-old who initially moved to Los Angeles to develop an acting career; the other, coming up in the next episode, is a family of toddler triplets living on the outskirt of Zhuhai, a city in Southern China.
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How to (re)introduce plant-based meat to China

December 31, 2019 • 19 mins
China is no stranger to vegetarian food. If anything, the Chinese have invented countless vegetarian dishes that imitate meat throughout their centuries-old history of Buddhism. In this episode, we try Impossible Meat, we try its counterpart in China, we talk to people who sell it and who study the market, and we ask - how should companies introduce, or perhaps reintroduce, meatless meat to China?
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Leaders in Tech: Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang on what's trending and what's next

December 9, 2019 • 18 mins
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 the largest share launch of the year, beating out Uber and Lyft. On the back of its listing, we got a chance to speak to Daniel Zhang, executive chairman and chief executive of Alibaba, while he was in Hong Kong.   Zhang spoke about how technology is transforming companies and resha...
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Singles’ Day explained

November 24, 2019 • 15 mins
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 Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Prime Day combined.  But what really sets Singles’ Day apart from other shopping fests? Why are people shopping on a day that’s not even a holiday? And … is that Taylor Swift at Alibaba’s Singles’ Day gala? Senior tech reporter Zen Soo and podcast prod...
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Leaders in Tech: what's spectrum and why does it matter for 5G?

October 27, 2019 • 49 mins
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 this might mess with your weather forecast.
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What can China’s DNA tests really tell you?

October 16, 2019 • 25 mins
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 the University of Hong Kong, to find out.
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Leaders in Tech: Yamibuy's Alex Zhou on building a US$100 million business on homesickness

October 2, 2019 • 18 mins
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
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Leaders in Tech: Self-driving cars in China

September 16, 2019 • 42 mins
We talked to Jianxiong Xiao, the founder and CEO of AutoX, a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles
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Leaders in Tech: How to create a successful podcast platform with lessons learnt from China

September 2, 2019 • 20 mins
Castbox CEO Renee Wang looked to China for inspiration and then sold her idea around the world.
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Inside a Chinese internet addiction treatment centre

August 20, 2019 • 18 mins
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.
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How AI counts accurate crowd numbers in Hong Kong protests

August 5, 2019 • 18 mins
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.
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Leaders in Tech: How CEO of Sandbox VR bet life savings on creating hyper-realistic VR games

July 21, 2019 • 20 mins
How Steve Zhao staked his life savings for ten years to create a real-life holodeck.
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Trailer: We thought VR was just hype till we tried Sandbox VR

July 15, 2019 • 3 mins
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.
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