Trend & Company Watching Services


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For more than 10 years, we have spent a substantial share of our time monitoring news about Chinese tech trends and Chinese tech companies. Besides sharing this knowledge in our articles, lectures and study tours we also offer trend and company watching services.

We keep track of the activities and news around the following Chinese companies and their most important affiliates:

  • Alibaba/Ant Group
  • Tencent
  • ByteDance
  • Pinduoduo
  • Meituan-Dianping
  • JD
  • Baidu
  • Xiaomi

We track the trends in the following business areas:

  • e-Commerce (C2C, B2C, C2M) / Cross-Border e-Commerce (to China)
  • social media
  • KOLs / social commerce / live commerce
  • social credit
  • mobile/digital payment
  • local services (food delivery, ride-hailing, shared bikes, etc)
  • AI (consumer facing)
  • internet censorship
  • New Retail
  • grocery delivery
  • online video (short video apps, streaming video platforms, etc)

If you have an interest in any of these trends and/or companies but miss the capacity to monitor all the information yourself, we can help.

We can periodically report on these companies and trend in a frequency and format that suits you best. Please contact us to discuss the possibilities.