In the past few years, technology has revolutionized the financial sector, and as fintech continues to swell into more sectors, the real estate industry will welcome its own version, known as proptech, according to a senior executive from international real estate consultancy company Jones Lang LaSalle.

"Beijing E-town" has become a high-end tech hub with international influence.

Major e-commerce players plan to use robots and drones to solve the annual bottleneck when it comes to deliveries after Singles Day.

Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Baidu Inc were ranked as the first and second most respected companies in China this year, according to a list jointly released by Fortune magazine and Hay Group, a global management consulting firm.

Richard Liu (Liu Qiangdong), 43, founder and CEO of JD.com, sat down with Suthichai Yoon, The Nation’s |co-founder, recently in his headquarters in Beijing, to |discuss his plan to make Thailand the e-commerce hub for Southeast Asia.

Chinese cross-border e-commerce transaction reached 6.7 trillion yuan ($1.01 trillion) in 2016, up by 31.6 percent, chinanews.com reported Sunday, citing an index released at a forum held in Shanghai.