China’s technology news
in March 2021
China’s technology and startup news in March 2021 covered items across a wide range of subjects, including China’s mobile economy, sports-tech, data privacy and legislation, cryptocurrency mining and more.
The headlines listed here provide an overview of English-language coverage of China’s tech and startup news headlines for the month, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feeds; each link takes you directly to the free-to-read article behind that headline, available to read online and in full. This gives our readers 2 things:
- an at-a-glance overview of March 2021’s technology news from China; and
- instant access to more detail on the China-focused startup news items that interest you the most.
If you’re looking for March 2021’s technology news, rather than startup news from China, see our other tech news collections, listed at the foot of this page.
You can also download a one-page snapshot of China’s tech news:
- Download: The Mobile Economy – China 2021, from GSMA (pdf)
- 2021 Mobile Economy Infographic, a one-pager from GSMA (pdf)
- Largest digital currency trial yet set for Chengdu, with over 40 million digital yuan allocated
- Inner Mongolia region to ban new cryptocurrency mining projects and shutter existing activity alongside pulling back on other energy-consuming industries
- ByteDance, parent of TikTok, reportedly to invest $25M in QCraft Inc autonomous minibus startup
- ICYMI: US adds to license limits on suppliers to Huawei, prohibiting export of components like semiconductors, antennas and batteries for Huawei 5G devices
- Tencent sheds $65BN in 2-day slide as investor fears rise over increasing government scrutiny of the country’s fintech sector
- I-Fitness secures $15M from Xiaomi and Shunwei Capital with online and offline sales of fitness courses for smart home-based gym and fitness systems
- Alibaba UC Browser for mobiles removed from Chinese app stores, ostensibly over medical ads by unqualified companies; more likely over tech sector scrutiny
- ICYMI: US Federal Comms Commission to strip 3 China telecom firms of US operating licenses over national security concerns
- Momenta self-driving vehicles firm backed by Toyota in $500M funding round, expanding the Japanese firm’s footprint in China
- A look at the buzz in the country’s startup and VC firms around development of a homegrown Clubhouse clone
- Government proposes establishing a joint venture with domestic tech giants to oversee data collected from hundreds of millions of consumers, led by central bank
- Hong Kong’s Avant Meats cell-based marine protein startup enters partnership with China’s QuaCell biotech firm, projecting a 90% reduction in production costs
- Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund’s Jumpstarter 2021 competition selects HK’s Rice Robotics and China’s Lingxi AR Technology as winning tech startups
- Hong Kong: Chinachem Group and HK Science and Technology Parks Corp partner to launch 2 startup support programmes, focusing on smart city tech and commercialization
- India: Procurement rules set for June likely to block the country’s mobile carriers from using equipment made by Huawei, citing national security concerns
- Japan’s Mercari marketplace app begins cross-border sales with Alibaba’s Taobao and Xianyu
- China’s Alibaba acquires HungryNaki, leading Bangladeshi online meal delivery service, gaining 500K regular customers ordering from 4K restaurants in 5 cities
- ICYMI: HK Monetary Authority and Bank of Thailand announce central banks of China and UAE to join project using blockchain for regional payments
Technology-focused news in March 2021
The links below will take you to news round-ups focused on particular technologies, rather than technology news from a particular location:
• Artificial intelligence news, March 2021
• Blockchain news in March 2021
• Crypto & digital currency news in March 2021
• Cybersecurity and related news, March 2021
• FinTech and digital banking news in March 2021
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