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China Roundup: Mega trade show goes online, anti-China feelings are hobbling developers

After an app called Remove China Apps that made it easy for users to delete China-related services viral, Chinese apps face major challenges in India. Although Google has pulled the app, anti-China sentiment is likely to heighten China's apps in India as the country's political tensions.

Several Indian celebrities have been supporting deleting Chinese apps in recent days. Over the weekend, yoga guru Baba Ramdev tweeted a video showing him deleting several apps with China affiliation.

In practice, decoupling from the Chinese tech may not be easy. According to Counterpoint data, four of India's top five smartphone brands are Chinese, three of which belong to the enigmatic Shenzhen-based BBK Electronics group.

Normally these Android phones come bundled with a suite of Chinese utility apps, so users would have to find alternatives if they were to abandon the Chinese options.

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Mega trade show Tencent Cloud powers
 
The outbreak of Coronavirus encourages people to bring everything online — including exhibitions of mega size. Tencent announced this week that it is providing technology for digitalizing China's oldest and biggest trade fair, Canto Fair that has been postponed because of the coronavirus and has later revised to run almost from 15 to 24 June.
 
For Tencent, the project is nothing short. The trade fair held last year in the main Chinese commercial city of Guangzhou brought the turnover of nearly $ 30 billion below 200,000 buyers.
 
In some 30 countries, the social networking and gaming giant with a-cloud unit will deploy more than 1,300 acceleration nodes to control the traffic of some 100,000 exhibitors and buyer (1,100 of which will be in China).
 
The virtual system supports key trade show features, such as exhibiter-buyer combinations, video demonstrations and interactive live streaming for product demonstrations.
 
 
The project will also gain users for the Tencent corporate services, the new growth focus of the giant. For example, a Zoom equivalent, Tencent Meeting can accommodate up to 300 participants.
 
According to App Annie, the App is the most popular "business" iOS app in China.
 
Jushuitan 's ERP company raised $100 million
 
Jushuitan, a six-year - old e-commerce-oriented startup based in Shanghai, has announced that the Goldman Sachs round of the $100 million C Series round will be completed.
 
While China's consumers are in a number of ways equal to its American counterparts, the country is still 5-10 years behind the company software business, "said Sun Mengxi, Goldman Sachs Managing Director.
 
Over 500,000 e-commerce customers in China have served the Software as a Service solution of the company but it looks to expand abroad, using some of the money from this round of financing. Fresh capital also will help to upgrade the products and services of Jushuitan, to integrate it in supply chains and to invest in or purchase other companies.
 
Jushuitan bets on China's huge online retail industry, which since the early 2010s has seen exponential growth, needs to digitize. In a previous interview, Chief Manager and founder Luo Haidong argued the Chinese e-commerce "watershed."
 
"The stores were first able to sell their entire inventory while managing their orders well when e-commerce was first introduced. However, with the number of stores growing and growth slowing after 2014, better management was needed.
 
I strongly felt that the market needed an integrated order management system, warehouses and supply chains, which gave Jushuitan a great chance.

 






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