Start-Ups

In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.

China’s burgeoning middle class, which increasingly is going online for everything from ordering lunch to booking hotel rooms, is fueling expectations that an 8-year-old startup with an innovative smartphone app will go public at a lofty $60 billion...

Facial recognition company in China becomes richest-valued private AI startup.

A start-up incubator on the outskirts of Shanghai is laying out sweeteners for budding entrepreneurs: Free office space, subsidized housing rent, tax breaks and in some cases, cash of up to 200,000 yuan ($31,211.47).

Alibaba has spent roughly $1.72 billion buying at least 50 startups and small businesses since 2013, while Tencent has doled out at least $780 million over the same period, according to Nikkei Asian Review.

China’s homegrown answer to Uber is about to become the world’s second most valuable startup.

From Shanghai to Sichuan, schemes are being rolled out to slash congestion, cut air pollution – and spin a profit

In the first half of 2016 alone, investors poured US $37 billion into Chinese startups: Didi Chuxing, Ant Financial, and Meituan-Dianping top the list

Slowly but surely, China's young scientists are finding ways to prove that the old way of doing things might no longer be the only way.

Li Dongpu, CEO and co-founder of car wash startup Wo Ai Xiche, has disappeared