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Eleanor Olcott

China technology correspondent

Eleanor Olcott writes about Chinese technology for the FT. Before joining the FT, she was a China policy analyst at the financial research firm TS Lombard.
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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Shein
    Shein’s elusive founder holds pre-IPO investor meetings in London

    Sky Xu’s pitch comes as fast-fashion group still awaits regulatory approvals

    People walk past a Shein poster ad
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    WuXi Biologics
    China’s WuXi explores sale of pharma units as US restrictions loom

    Drugmakers have been targeted on national security grounds and could lose customers if Congress passes Biosecure Act

    Rows of blister packs containing pink Paxlovid tablets on a packaging line in a facility in Ascoli, Italy
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessChinese economy
    Signs of China’s troubles around Hainan’s white beaches

    Province is scattered with unfinished projects conceived when country’s growth appeared unassailable

    Ocean Flower Island, the artificial archipelago off the north coast of Danzhou in Hainan
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    News in-depthShein
    How China’s ‘Shein village’ grabbed the fast fashion supply chain

    Thousands of factories depend on the retailer but rivals are putting pressure on a model based on speed and thin margins

    A large room full of piles of bundled clothing products
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    PwC
    PwC China stops work on $140mn campus as Evergrande crisis mounts

    Lavish training institute on tropical island under review as firm reels from fallout from its audits of failed property developer

    A partially constructed building with exposed concrete and support beams, surrounded by construction materials
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Shein
    Shein faces greater political scrutiny ahead of planned London IPO

    Labour MP calls for UK government to ban imported products made by forced labour in Chinese region of Xinjiang

    Clothes at the Shein pop-up store in New York
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    China’s start-up winter is here

    Venture capital funding has dried up in China, prompting a sharp fall in start-up formation

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    #techAsia
    Export clampdowns and a smartphone face-off Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    People walk past Huawei Mate XT
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

    Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

    Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Huawei Technologies
    Huawei takes on Apple in China with $2,800 trifold phone

    Mate XT, released hours after launch of iPhone 16, already has 5mn pre-orders

    Huawei's new trifold smartphone, the Mate XT, is displayed in a glass case at a Huawei flagship store in Beijing, China.
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Semiconductors
    Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

    Supply of processors helps Chinese start-ups advance artificial intelligence technology despite Washington’s restrictions

    Nvidia’s HGX H100 artificial intelligence supercomputing graphics processing unit displayed at the showroom of the company's offices in Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    AstraZeneca PLC
    AstraZeneca says ‘small number’ of employees under investigation in China

    Police reportedly probing five current and former employees over infringement of data privacy laws

    Signage at an AstraZeneca facility
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    #techAsia
    All about chips Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A computer circuit board
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Huawei’s bug-ridden software hampers China’s efforts to replace Nvidia in AI

    Ascend artificial intelligence chips are being widely adopted but Chinese companies complain of performance problems

    Signage at a Huawei store in Shanghai, China
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    #techAsia
    India’s iPhone hopes and South Korea’s EV concerns Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions

    Capital spending doubles as Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu buy processors and infrastructure behind the training of large language models

    Logos of Nvidia, Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, and Alibaba on a grey background. The Nvidia logo is prominent and centrally located, with the other logos surrounding it.
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessAsia manufacturing
    What Shein’s supply chain says about the future of Chinese manufacturing

    Factory workers are deserting the garment industry as the population ages

    Workers producing garments at a textile factory that supplies clothes to fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Guangzhou
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    PwC
    PwC braced for 6-month ban in China over Evergrande audit

    Expected punishment for work on failed property developer’s accounts would be toughest by Beijing against a Big Four firm

    A combination image of the PwC logo and unfinished residential towers
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    US-China relations
    China-US tensions erode co-operation on science and tech

    Deng-Carter pact risks unravelling, with co-ordination limited to specific areas of research

    Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter make their way to the Oval Office in 1979
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    JD.com
    JD.com’s founder ‘still running’ ecommerce group from overseas

    Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from London

    Richard Liu, founder and chair of JD.com
  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    #techAsia
    China ecommerce shifts gear and TSMC heads to Europe Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s data watchdog plans tighter control of internet users

    Proposed digital IDs potentially covering everything from ecommerce to travel itineraries spark backlash

    A woman walks past a large video screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2022
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    News in-depthEcommerce
    Chinese online store Temu faces supplier backlash over business model shift

    Internet marketplace taking on Amazon and Shein aims to cut delivery times by storing goods closer to shoppers

    The Temu app on a smartphone with the Temu logo in the background
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li builds $1bn start-up in 4 months

    Stanford computer scientist’s ‘spatial intelligence’ venture wins backing from investors including Andreessen Horowitz

    Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI institute, at the Bloombury Technology Summit
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