How Liu Yan, a 24-year-old strategist, is shaping China’s digital culture and inspiring the next wave of creators. A Generation Born with Smartphones For many in China’s Gen Z, childhood memories are not just textbooks and playgrounds, but also touchscreens and social feeds.
How Wang Hui, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, is building inclusive payment solutions for rural China’s digital economy. From Village Markets to Digital Wallets Wang Hui (26) grew up in Henan province, where weekly markets were the heart of village life. Farmers sold vegetables with
How Li Qiang, a 25-year-old AI entrepreneur, is building smart healthcare tools for China’s hospitals. Growing Up in the Age of AI Li Qiang (25) was born in Shenzhen, a city that transformed from fishing village to tech powerhouse within a generation. Surrounded
How Zhang Rui, a 19-year-old self-taught coder, is turning rural classrooms into coding labs and inspiring China’s digital future From Rural Schoolbooks to Python Scripts Zhang Rui (19) grew up in Guizhou province, a mountainous region better known for agriculture than for tech.
Profile: Zhou Min (29), Economic researcher publishing fresh takes on youth, inequality, and the digital economy A Fresh Voice in Economics At 29, Zhou Min is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most important young economists in China. His research focuses on
Profile: Wang Xin (25) Digital fashion creator mixing Hanfu styles with VR showrooms Tradition Meets Technology At just 25, Wang Xin is bridging centuries of Chinese fashion heritage with the cutting edge of digital design. Her work reimagines Hanfu, the traditional attire of
China’s Young Rail Visionaries China’s high-speed rail (HSR) is already the largest in the world, stretching over 40,000 km, but the next chapter is being written by Gen Z engineers. These under-30 talents are shaping innovations in speed, safety, and sustainability that will
How PDD’s founder reinvented e-commerce with group buying and global ambition. From Engineer to Entrepreneur Colin Huang, a former Google engineer, returned to China in the 2000s with a vision to build digital platforms that could reach beyond affluent urban elites. In 2015,
Young innovators blending fintech and climate policy to fund the low-carbon transition. Finance Meets Climate China’s race to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 will require trillions of dollars in new investment. While state banks and policy funds remain central, a surprising force has
A scan of the next generation of founders and where global investors are placing bets. The Next Wave of Innovation China’s startup scene has entered a new phase. The first generation of consumer internet giants Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu defined the 2000s. The
