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...Chief executive Lei Jun has been lobbying top city officials to help ensure his group gains a production licence once held by Beijing Borgward, an EV maker that failed last year, according to two people...
...A little over a decade after founding Xiaomi as an Apple copycat, Lei Jun has finally upstaged his Silicon Valley rival....
...The Pentagon and the Chinese defence ministry said Austin spoke on Tuesday to Dong Jun, a retired admiral who became defence minister in December....
...Lei Jun, head of phonemaker Xiaomi, is also serving for a third term....
...“They didn’t leave much space for the SU7,” Li noted....
...Dong Jun, 62, replaces Li Shangfu, who was officially removed as defence minister and member of China’s cabinet in October....
...Richard Kramer, a senior analyst at Arete Research, said: “Lei Jun [founder of Xiaomi] is running this vast . . . empire of small companies like a mini-Masa Son,” referring to the head of Japanese tech investor...
...In October, Xi removed Li in connection with a corruption investigation and the post remained open until the appointment of Dong Jun, former head of the Chinese navy, in December....
...Officials including Premier Li Qiang have also met top tech executives and praised tech groups’ efforts to bolster the country’s semiconductor industry....
...vehicle arm, writes Nikkei Asia’s Lauly Li....
...Three top lieutenants will also step down, including president and former Qualcomm veteran Wang Xiang, according to a note sent to employees on Thursday by Xiaomi’s co-founder and chair Lei Jun and viewed...
...Two co-founders, Hong Feng and Wang Chuan, will step down from daily operations, according to a note sent to employees by its chair Lei Jun and viewed by the Financial Times....
...In February, Xiaomi founder and chief executive Lei Jun threw down the gauntlet to Apple and Samsung, vowing to make his company China’s top-selling premium brand in three years....
...Xiaomi takes on Apple Smartphone maker Xiaomi, and its larger-than-life founder Lei Jun, were the embodiment of China’s technology ambition....
...At CCB, overdue mortgages that were boycott-related reached Rmb1.14bn at the end of July, said Li Jun, vice-president of the bank....
...Jun co-founded the exchange with his business partner, Leon Li, a former Oracle computer engineer, in September 2013, despite Jun at first thinking that bitcoin had gained in value too quickly to be anything...
...These facilities were designed not to educate children, but to help with child care and facilitate the participation of women in the workforce, said Li Jun, Chau Hoi Shuen scholar in residence at the University...
...Yushan Li and Jun Zhou Founders and designers, Pronounce With gender-fluid collections that borrow heavily from their native country’s past, Yushan Li and Jun Zhou of menswear brand Pronounce are challenging...
...[The C1] is only a small step in Xiaomi’s chip progress, but it marks a milestone for our image processing capability,” chair Lei Jun said at an online press event....
...Spotlight Jun Seki is aiming high....
...Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, reiterated this week the government’s longstanding pledge to refrain from “flood-like stimulus” measures....
...Xiaomi, founded in 2010 by Lei Jun, was nicknamed “China’s Apple” early in its history, but later promoted itself as a data-centric internet company, introducing a wide range of connected devices, from smart...
...Xiaomi founder and chief executive Lei Jun will lead the unit. Upshot: Following China’s lead, electric vehicle manufacturers in other countries are stepping up....
...“China has set such a high threshold for poverty that it ends up downplaying the problem,” said Wang Jun, an analyst at China Center for International Economic Exchange, a government think-tank....
...Che Jun, Communist party boss of China’s eastern Zhejiang province, where Geely is based, said the complex would be built in Taizhou city and that construction had begun....
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