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During Two Sessions, Rep. Huang Jianping accuse Jack Ma’s Taobao of failing to fight counterfeits and that causes a bleak brick-and-motar.

Interim Measures for the Management of Internet Car-hailing Service, issued by seven ministries, take effect from today. It requires the vehicle wheelbase length must be not less than 2700 mm, the engine capacity must not be less than 2.0 liters. In cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, it requires the driver to have a local household register.

According to the official data provided by Didi Chuxing, 92.2% of the operating vehicle are less than 2.0 liters or less. Among the 41 million activated drivers in Shanghai, only less than 10,000 drivers have valid local residence.

The Air Force One of China, a Boeing 747-400, is not a specifically designed for the purpose of transporting President Xi Jinping. It’s a civilian airliner operated by Air China and will be reconfigured and serviced according to the need of President Xi’s trip.

The aircraft registration number of Chinese Air Force One is B-2472 (bought in by Air China on May 2nd, 2000). As back-ups, B-2471 (September 22nd, 1999) and B-2447 are also in the reserve team. Generally, Air China selects the aircraft with shortest aviation service age among its fleet, which has eight Boeing 747-400s, to be Air Force One.

The preparation for Air Force One usually begins twenty days before the President’s take-off. The Civil Aviation Administration of China will be noticed and its presidential plane office then assigns the flight mission to Air China. All the process of examination and reconfiguration will be supervised and assisted by 34th Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

In the mid-90s, China had ordered a Boeing 767-300ER as the presidential plane but later found ditctaphones. Since then China never purchases designated presidential planes.

Let’s take a look at its inside.

Painting of Yi He Yuan, in the cabin of B-2471.

Seat layout: Section one, president, include living room, office and bedroom. Section two, ministers. Section three, secretaries, officials, guards and medical staff. Section four, media and others.

Not even a word from Chinese smartphone companies since Apple CEO Tim Cook openly challenged the court’s request. Google CEO Sundar Pichai showed support. Microsoft followed. But still, no Xiaomi, no LeTV, no Smartisan, none.

This is quite contrary considering those Chinese smartphone companies have been trying to paint themselves as the next great company, or the real Steve Jobs inheritors, or, very much often, the Chinese version of “Apple”.

They’ve been saying the almost exact same thing as they try to do what Apple had achieved: user experiences, product design, UI interface, ecosystem... et cetera et cetera. If you take a look at these companies’ media events for product release, well, that’s an excellent work of copying Apple.

Except when a real challenge comes, when the government orders you to give out other people’s privacy, Chinese smartphone companies shut their mouth and act nothing’s happened. Yes, I’m saying all of them. Xiaomi, Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, all of them.

President Xi Jinping visited China Central Television (CCTV) and this slogan showed.

Several Huxiu editors had made a discovery that WeChat, China internet behemoth Tencent’s mobile communication app, could gain users’ location information regardless the Do Not Allow for Get Location in the system settings in a variety of Android smartphones.

First we disabled all location access for WeChat and then try to use the Send Location and the People Nearby function of WeChat. Surprisingly we found the WeChat could easily have user’s real-time location.

Just to give you an idea of how it’s supposed to be working. Here’s the result we have on iOS.

We turned off the Location Services for WeChat. It keeps running and shows Now Loading... while we use the Location-related features in WeChat. WeChat is unable to get rid of the permission control of iOS, apparently.

To make sure it’s not a single case, we had tested it on several Android smartphones and we’re getting WeChat users’ feedback through our Chinese page. A broad variety of Android smartphones had shown same results, including Huawei, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Meizu and Smartisan.

After purchasing a landmark building in Madrid for $358.5 million, Wanda Group has been caught in a tug of war with the Madrid’s government. The local government doesn’t allow Wanda Group to rebuild the building, because the building is a historic heritage. But at the same time, the government is trying to ensure over-ten-million investment brought by the Wanda Group.

After being condemned for selling illness-related Tieba forums in the last week, Baidu’s CEO Lee finally responded to that criticism on its Weibo microblog. He said Baidu will give priority to user experience and is determined to fix its problems. Baidu is also facing punishment over forums containing pornography, libelous posts and adverts for unlicensed hospitals.

Baidu Inc was recently involved in a scandal that reflected its lagging profit making mode. 

Half a year has passed since Uber China started a series B round of financing in June. During the past months, rumors of its failure in financing were often heard, which in turn added up to the difficulties of the tycoon’s Chinese operations. But recently, word has it that Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd, after Baidu and Hainan Airlines, has also promised to invest.

Qihoo CEO Zhou Hongyi clarified in an interview during Wuzhen Summit, World Internet Conference that he did not refer to Xiaomi as he said “(some company) has turned into a salve of capital as it burdened itself with a high evaluation” in a previous event.

“I was not talking about Xiaomi when I said ‘a slave of capital’,” Zhou denied.

On December 8 in an event organized by Chinese Entrepreneurs, Zhou said: