On November 30, Hainan Airlines and CBBC hosted an event for businesses hoping to harness the power of the Lunar New Year holiday to lure Chinese consumers back to the UK. The panel consisted of Peter Han, general manager of Hainan Airlines; Alexander Graham, global brand director at Luxe Life; and Arnold Ma, co-founder of Qumin. As Celine Tang – CBBC’s Retail & e-Commerce Sector Lead – pointed out at …
“Whether you like it or not, China is an indisputable fact of global economic life,” Rishi Sunak admitted this week in response to questions about his new foreign secretary, the former prime minister David Cameron. So what exactly have Cameron’s dealings with China been over the years – from Huawei to Port City Colombo – and might they yet get him in trouble? It’s hard to forget the photograph of …
These days Chinese consumers can browse, buy and watch product live streams on all manner of platforms, from Douyin to Taobao to Xiaohongshu – here, in their own words, is how they choose between them According to Statista, almost 60% of China’s online live commerce shoppers are female, and they make up around 51% of Chinese e-commerce users in general. But with so much noise, and so many choices, what …
When we catch up with Songqiao Yao she is in Cambridge, fresh from the Skoll World Forum in Oxford and heading to London for yet more meetings and to see more friends. The truth is, even the most intrepid Chinese entrepreneurs have been grounded for the last three years – victims of China’s extremely strict zero Covid policy – and now, finally, things can get moving. And it’s no exaggeration …
As TikTok fights for its life in the West, and pundits sling mud at the app’s differing treatment of children at home and abroad – does any of it matter if it ultimately leads to better outcomes for young people using social media? From Liz Truss’ tirade against TikTok as a “threat to children’s safety”, to American senator Richard Blumenthal’s concern that “TikTok’s policies and practices for children and teens …
Without crossover between China and the UK in everything from education to manufacturing, the medical technology pioneered by Beijing X-Magtech Technologies might never have existed. Sarah Keenlyside spoke to co-founder Bin Cai to find out more You don’t need a science degree to understand the life-saving benefits of Beijing X-Magtech Technologies’ commercial-grade atomic magnetometer. Possessing sensitivity about a billionth of earth’s magnetic field, it acts like a tiny microscope with …