Chinese tech giant Huawei and Vietnam’s SHB Bank enter strategic partnership to accelerate penetration into SE Asia's financial cloud market
Chinese digital payment WeChat Pay integrates national QR codes in five Asian countries, entering a unified era of "scan-and-pay" cross-border payments
Chinese technology enterprise Tencent QClaw officially launches overseas beta, featuring "zero-threshold" AI agent collaboration

Toyota Partners with Chinese battery giant CATL (宁德时代) for localized battery production in Indonesia, aiming to build ASEAN EV hub

Chinese technology enterprise Dreame (追觅科技) reports eight consecutive years of doubled revenue, leading market share in over 30 countries

Investment Is Booming, Orders Are Rising, but Robots Are Still Learning How to Deliver
Since the beginning of 2026, embodied intelligence has become one of the most frequently mentioned sectors. Financing news has been rolling in with figures in the hundreds of millions, and almost every day new companies are entering the public eye. 127 Financing Rounds, 44 Companies Going Global); on the Spring Festival Gala stage, robots are no longer merely showcasing technology, but have begun to perform alongside human actors, becoming part of the “cast.”
Thinking of ASEAN as a single market is the biggest miscalculation for Chinese companies
For a long time, multinational corporations have often held a dangerous "holistic" bias when examining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This perspective views ASEAN—a region with over 690 million people and interwoven diverse cultures—as a single emerging market, attempting to capture one country as a model and then replicating that pattern across other member states.
You're Invited: China's Innovation, Up Close
China is no longer just a manufacturing hub or a consumer market to watch from a distance. It has become the world's most dynamic innovaton laboratory where AI applications scale faster, humanoid robots roll off production lines at mass-market prices, smart factories rewrite the rules of manufacturing, and internet platforms evolve their business models quicker than anywhere else.
CES 2026 in Numbers | From Shenzhen to Las Vegas: Huaqiangbei’s Year-End Report
CES 2026 features nearly equal numbers of exhibitors from China and the United States, underscoring its increasingly balanced global landscape. China’s growing influence—driven by highly concentrated regional clusters such as the Pearl River Delta—highlights that competition now revolves around systems, scenarios, and industrial ecosystems rather than individual products.







