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...Beijing resident Guo Rui recently discovered the extent of the data that feeds into the health code system — which combines mobile phone location tracking and government-issued ID numbers with Covid test...
...“The capital markets were hot at the time,” Yu Rui, chief executive of JD Logistics, told the Financial Times....
...Enforcing competition law was not just about improving the market, agreed Guo Shan, at Plenum, a Beijing consultancy, since the authorities were looking closely at fintech and worker treatment....
...Oliver Rui, finance professor at China Europe International Business School, says that Ant could previously leverage Rmb3bn ($449m) in capital into Rmb300bn in loans....
...Political observers have connected the case against Mr Rui to political intrigues in the upper echelon of the Chinese elite. In late June, Mr Guo was arrested by prosecutors on charges of corruption....
...Mr Rui appears to have been embroiled in a corruption case built against his former boss, CCTV’s financial news channel director Guo Zhenxi, who was arrested in June in a corruption investigation that has...
...“When Guo was arrested, everyone knew something bad was going to happen to Rui,” said Michael Anti, a Beijing journalist and blogger....
...The detentions follow the arrest last month of CCTV’s advertising director and director-general of its finance and economics channel, Guo Zhenxi, on suspicion of bribery....
...Rui Guo, senior dry freight analyst at ICAP Shipping, said China was running down coal stocks while its iron ore market was also “hugely depressed” in terms of importing activity....
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