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Special: 2021 China Tech Trends (with Tech Buzz China)

2021/5/5
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Rui Ma 和 Ying Lu 详细介绍了她们制作播客的方式，并分享了她们在中国科技领域的个人经历和观察。她们认为，2013-14 年是中国科技发展的一个关键时期，当时中国对创业和初创企业的态度发生了根本性转变。此后，中国涌现出一批优秀的科技公司，例如拼多多、字节跳动、美团等。她们还分析了中国消费品牌、社区团购、电动汽车和自动驾驶等领域的最新趋势，并对中国反垄断政策进行了深入探讨。 Ben Gilbert 和 David Rosenthal 作为 Acquired 播客的主持人，与 Rui Ma 和 Ying Lu 就中国科技趋势进行了深入交流。他们对中国消费品牌快速崛起、社区团购模式的创新以及电动汽车和自动驾驶领域的竞争表示关注。他们还探讨了中国反垄断政策对科技行业的影响，并对中国科技公司的国际化发展趋势进行了展望。

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Rui Ma and Ying Lu, hosts of Tech Buzz China, share their backgrounds and how they research China's tech scene from the US. They discuss the evolution of China's tech landscape, from its early stages to the current boom, emphasizing the shift in social attitudes towards entrepreneurship.
  • Rui Ma and Ying Lu have been following and analyzing the China tech scene for many years.
  • China's tech landscape has evolved rapidly in the last decade, with a surge in startups and venture capital.
  • Social attitudes towards entrepreneurship in China have shifted dramatically, with it now being seen as a desirable career path.

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We team up with two of the very best English-language analysts covering China tech today, Rui Ma and Ying Lu from the Tech Buzz China podcast, to talk about the big trends happening on the ground in China right now. We've had Rui and Ying's episodes on repeat in our own podcast players for many years as we researched our Meituan, PDD, Tencent and Alibaba episodes, and we're so excited to have them finally join us live. We had a blast and learned much more about what's actually happening in the world's largest market than the relative trickle of news Western audiences normally receive. Tune in!

**Sponsors:**Statsig: https://bit.ly/acquiredstatsig24)Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta)Crusoe: https://bit.ly/acquiredcrusoe) Topics and trends covered:

  • How Rui and Ying stay on top of trends in China tech remotely from the US
  • The rise of “tech company like” CPG and other consumer brands in China and extremely fast product development and iteration: e.g., Genki Forest, Perfect Diary and Shein
  • Community group buying and the reinvention of commerce in rural China (along with an eye-opening discussion of what qualifies as “rural” in China... which is very different from the West!)
  • Autonomous and electric vehicle design and production in China (which is the world's largest car market), and the government's push for China to become a global leader in both
  • The current state of anti-trust in China and why investors and operators on the ground in China are optimistic about recent developments

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