中国で、民間企業が報道に携わることを禁止する動き

あるAnonymous Coward 曰く、最近、民間のジャーナリストがノーベル平和賞を受賞したが、これに逆行する動きが中華人民共和国（中国）で起こっている（日経新聞、時事ドットコム）。 中国の国家発展改革委員会は８日、市場参入制限を定めた「ネガティブリスト」2021年版の案を公表した。この案には、報道事業を民間企業が手掛けることを禁止する内容が盛り込まれているとのこと。具体的な禁止事項は新聞、通信社、出版、テレビ、ネットニュースなどで政治、経済、軍事、外交、重要な社会問題、文化、科学技術、衛生、教…

Gogoro launches battery swapping stations in China

Five months after announcing a deal with two of China’s biggest two-wheel vehicle makers, Gogoro officially launched there today, opening 45 battery swapping stations in Hangzhou. The company’s co-founder and chief executive officer Horace Luke told TechCrunch that it targets 80 stations by the end of the year, before expanding into other major cities with […]

Will October again be memorable for wrong reasons as economic risks build? | Larry Elliott

Bad things happen in this month and, as IMF prepares for annual meeting, signs of a crisis loomBad things happen in October. It was in this month 13 years ago that the global banking system came close to imploding. There was a stock market bloodbath in…

The future of China’s work culture

In a late-August ruling, China’s supreme court declared one of the country’s most infamous work practices illegal. Known as “996,” the term is shorthand for a work schedule spanning from 9AM to 9PM, six days per week. Though popularized by the country’s soaring tech firms, often evoking images of hip urban startup employees with stock […]