China’s Rupert Murdoch eyes foreign sports

Le Sports valued at $3.3b after white-hot raise

LeEco's sports arm exceeds expectations with its Rmb8 billion ($1.23 billion) Series-B round of funding, more than septupling its valuation in just 10 months.

March 27, 2016

China's LeEco bets on a connected future

Co-founder and vice-chairman Liu Hong on the fast-growing firm’s global ambition to build an integrated media and telecommunications ecosystem.

May 10, 2016

Investors eye AI opportunities in China

Venture capital investors are increasingly piling into artificial intelligence. The opportunities for China are rife.

March 28, 2017

How China’s private banks can survive and thrive

China’s private banks have the makings of success and can help to fill the gap in SME lending but major challenges lie ahead, this year’s Boao Forum heard.

March 30, 2016

Who is to blame for China’s market turmoil?

On the last day of this year’s Boao Forum in Hainan, panelists representing areas of the financial markets discussed last summer’s stock market meltdown.

March 28, 2016

Ex-CICC chief: technology will not kill finance

Levin Zhu, son of former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, tells the Boao Forum that finance still needs the human touch and that technology will not lead to its extinction.

March 22, 2016