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Paper, gunpowder, the compass – China has a history of disruption that extends back thousands of years. In the digital age, however, the Middle Kingdom’s technology startups gained a reputation for quickly copying their Western peers, rather than coming up with their own world-changing ideas. All that is changing, though, and in 2016, innovation itself is increasingly being “Made in China”. China’s Internet giants are coming up with ingenious homegrown products, services, and business models,...

Didi Chuxing is the most successful ride-sharing company in China and recently got a vote of confidence in the form of a $1 billion investment from Apple. Hear what Didi’s Vice President of Strategy Stephen Zhu had to say at the Credit Suisse 2016 Asian Investment Conference about the state of Chinese entrepreneurship, the uniqueness of the sharing economy in China, and the biggest challenges faced by Chinese startups.