Understand Chinese Companies from Alibaba to Huawei to Xiaomi as they shape global innovation from O2O and OMO e-commerce to AI super apps to smart cities of the future.

Alibaba and Jindong (JD.com) are at the innovative forefront of global smart cities, artificial intelligence, autonomous logistics and delivery vehicles, blockchain, robotics, augmented/virtual reality, and drones.

 

Alibaba, while leading in e-commerce users, gross merchandise volume, and accounts for 30% of global market-share at double Amazon’s, has designed the revolutionary City Brain that enables global cities’ transportation systems such as Kuala Lumpur to run on AI and Jindong has pioneered drone and L4 autonomous vehicle delivery of logistics.

 

Baidu, far from just being China's Google, has pioneered fully autonomous taxis and leads in AI, blockchain, robotics, virtual/augmented reality, and smart cities such as the revolutionary Xiong’an New Area; the world’s first AI city digitally hardwired in its infrastructural construction from birth.

 

BYD has overtaken Tesla to become the biggest electric car company in the world, DJI is the world’s leading drone company, Huawei leads in 5G infrastructure construction and now 5.5G, CATL is the world’s largest electric battery maker, Bytedance is responsible for Tiktok, and Tencent for WeChat and palm recognition payment technology.

 

Even Pinduoduo is giving Amazon a run for its money in the West with Temu and Meituan was doing food delivery before UberEats and its super-app also enables bike-sharing, movie tickets, restaurant reviews, and group buying for example.

 

Xiaomi phones had news subscriptions before Apple and has branched into smart homes and electric cars as well as pioneering foldable phones of which Huawei has now developed the world’s first tri-foldable model.

 

Ehang has acquired the world’s first civil passenger fully autonomous drone licence and Xpeng the world’s first flying car as well as a two-in-one electric car and passenger drone model.