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Yuan Yang

Deputy Beijing bureau chief

Yuan is deputy Beijing bureau chief for the FT. She was previously China tech correspondent and a Marjorie Dean intern writing about development economics at The Economist. 

She is co-founder of the campaign, Rethinking Economics, that is calling for a more relevant curriculum that reflects real-world events.

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  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    Technology regulation
    Chinese regulators tell fintech groups to fix ‘problems’

    Tencent, ByteDance and 11 others summoned as Beijing extends pressure beyond Jack Ma’s Ant Group

  • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s food delivery groups slammed after undercover TV exposé

    Alibaba and Meituan criticised over labour practices after government official poses as driver

  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    News in-depthSocial Media
    Chinese-founded social network Yalla is rising star in Middle East

    Dubai-based app saw monthly users of chat and games apps rise nearly fivefold in year to last June

  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    Meituan
    Meituan becomes second Chinese tech giant to be hit with antitrust probe

    Investigation into food delivery platform comes 2 weeks after Alibaba was fined $2.8bn

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    Long Story Short
    A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

    Yuan Yang’s top reads this week: How Chauvin’s prosecutors won | China Tech’s ‘revolving door’ | Inside Scotland’s pandemic

  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
    FT MagazineChinese politics & policy
    China’s keyboard warriors like to fight . . .  each other

    ‘Nationalist bloggers resemble militias arguing with one another as much as they do with external enemies’

  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
    Chinese politics & policy
    Chinese censors take aim at former premier Wen Jiabao’s essay

    Dissidents say tribute to Wen’s mother could be interpreted as criticism of Xi Jinping

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Chinese society
    China ready for shot at snooker glory as it pushes to dominate sport

    Big matches in world championship that begins this weekend will be followed by rapt audiences

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    News in-depthJack Ma
    Beijing hints at truce in war on Jack Ma’s business empire

    Alibaba appears to escape tough punishment while Ant Group faces more severe measures

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Ant Group
    Ant ordered to restructure by Chinese regulators

    Lending services could be severely weakened by loosening ties to Alipay payment platform

  • Monday, 12 April, 2021
    Alibaba
    Alibaba shares jump after record antitrust fine

    Chinese ecommerce group says penalty marks end of probes targeting its online practices

  • Sunday, 11 April, 2021
    Chinese business & finance
    Alibaba’s rivals on alert after China’s regulators hand out record fine

    Tencent Music and Meituan expect increased scrutiny after Jack Ma’s group hit with $2.8bn penalty

  • Sunday, 11 April, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    China considers mixing vaccines to bolster efficacy

    Disease control centre makes first public admission over effectiveness of domestic jabs

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Alibaba
    Chinese regulators fine Alibaba record $2.8bn

    Ecommerce group penalised for abusing market dominance as Beijing steps up scrutiny of tech sector

  • Tuesday, 6 April, 2021
    Private equity
    Chinese private equity targets record fundraisings

    Fast-growing Boyu and Primavera join flurry of recent US dollar fund launches

  • Monday, 5 April, 2021
    Visual Arts
    NFTs in Beijing — ‘Who gets to decide the value of art?’

    The first large-scale crypto-art exhibition reveals the contradictions in China’s eager digital art market

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    ByteDance
    TikTok owner ByteDance steps up push into gaming

    Chinese social media giant is hoping its huge audiences can feed its nascent gaming business

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    News in-depthEU trade
    Sanctions row threatens EU-China investment deal

    Diplomatic escalation between Brussels and Beijing deepens uncertainty over treaty

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    FT MagazineTechnology
    China’s tech giants face a reckoning with the regulators 

    The country’s ecommerce platforms are caught between consumers and government

  • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
    ReviewBooks
    Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen — China’s contradictions

    A debut collection of short stories blends magical realism with social observation

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Apple Inc
    Apple warns Chinese apps not to dodge its new privacy rules

    Chinese apps test multiple workarounds to keep tracking iPhones without prompting for consent

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Apple Inc
    China’s tech giants test way around Apple’s new privacy rules

    ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Ant Group
    Ant Group chief resigns ahead of restructuring

    Chinese fintech group cites ‘personal reasons’ for Simon Hu’s departure and appoints Eric Jing as successor

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    Press freedom
    UK ambassador rebuffs Beijing broadside against press freedom comments

    Caroline Wilson summoned by foreign ministry over article defending international media coverage

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    News in-depthAnt Group
    Jack Ma’s Ant forced into arms of banks he once dubbed ‘pawnshops’

    Fintech will have to rely on state-owned behemoths under online lending reforms

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