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Chinese tech entrepreneurs go on global offensive
Success of TikTok and Shein inspires start-ups to look abroad for growth
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The growing success in global markets of China’s leading tech and industrial groups, such as Shein and Temu, TikTok and BYD, is providing encouragement to the country's tech entrepreneurs.
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Ryan McMorrow and Sun Yu
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Tech entrepreneur Rosie Zhang is betting that the reopening of China’s borders to the world will jump-start growth for her start-up.
“Now we can go out and sell,” she said, after three years spent during the pandemic pitching at customers and teaching them how to use her company’s retail automation technology over video calls from Shanghai.
