Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots ...

A potential encounter this week between President Xi Jinping and e-commerce icon Jack Ma, coming after a blistering run by tech shares, could be the next catalyst to extend the rally in China’s ...

China has invited prominent entrepreneurs including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma to meet the nation’s top leaders, people familiar with the matter said, a potentially momentous ...

founder Ren Zhengfei — considered key figures in China’s ambition to reduce its reliance on US technology. Xi shook hands with Unitree’s Wang, Ren and Ma. China’s leader urged the ...

HONG KONG -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met with a group of prominent private entrepreneurs including billionaire Jack Ma on Monday, a sign that Beijing sees the technology industry as a key ...

This comes just two days after Ma showed up at the Hangzhou offices of Xianyu, the online flea market established in 2014 by Alibaba, owner of the South China Morning Post. He was seen smiling and ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping hosted Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma and the country’s top tech ... Its success has also brought optimism to China’s tech sector, which is still recovering after a ...

17, 2025. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP) Founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma speaks during a seminar in Bali, Indonesia on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) In this photo released by ...

Xi delivered a speech after hosting Ma, Meituan’s Wang Xing and Xiaomi Corp. chief Lei Jun, state media reported. Also present were Wang Xingxing of robotics startup Unitree, DeepSeek founder Liang ...

Mr Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, had every reason to smile. His very appearance at this rare meeting on Feb 17 between Chinese leaders and the heads of China’s biggest technology firms ...

DeepSeek, having tipped global investors to China's serious artificial-intelligence game, may now be ending Beijing's deep-freeze on the nation's broader tech scene.