5 ways China’s WeChat is more innovative than you think

[AndrewJin]

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Well, DJI claims

 

[RealNapster]

Well, DJI claims
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[TaiShang]

WeChat closes all links to donations for religious purposes
Source: Global Times Published: 2016/12/20


Links to donations for so-called religious purposes will be banned on WeChat, a Chinese social media platform, to protect users' legitimate rights and interests, Tencent's WeChat team said in a statement on Monday.

A statement on Wechat's official website said some of public accounts created by groups posing as religious bodies were seeking "donations," which has damaged the legitimate rights and interests of legitimate religious groups and users.

The WeChat team vows to regulate fundraising activities in the name of religion on the platform by terminating links related to donations claiming to be meant for religious activities, read the notice.

The notice added that public accounts of non-religious bodies or those who have not registered with the religious affairs departments must not organize any donation activities in any form.

Violators could face permanent suspension, the WeChat team said in the statement.

 

[Jugger]

WeChat closes all links to donations for religious purposes
Source: Global Times Published: 2016/12/20


Links to donations for so-called religious purposes will be banned on WeChat, a Chinese social media platform, to protect users' legitimate rights and interests, Tencent's WeChat team said in a statement on Monday.

A statement on Wechat's official website said some of public accounts created by groups posing as religious bodies were seeking "donations," which has damaged the legitimate rights and interests of legitimate religious groups and users.

The WeChat team vows to regulate fundraising activities in the name of religion on the platform by terminating links related to donations claiming to be meant for religious activities, read the notice.

The notice added that public accounts of non-religious bodies or those who have not registered with the religious affairs departments must not organize any donation activities in any form.

Violators could face permanent suspension, the WeChat team said in the statement.

A very good decision by the company, we all know how charitable the charitable organizations are.
They are mostly used for illegal money laundry.

 

[TaiShang]

A very good decision by the company, we all know how charitable the charitable organizations are.
They are mostly used for illegal money laundry.

I think they also wanted to contain a potential evil before it goes out of hand. Seeing how extremism wreaks havoc in many places on daily basis, this move is more than welcome.

I wish organized religions to be entirely driven from every aspects of daily life, including buildings except those that are now deemed as cultural objects.

 

[Place Of Space]

Support the firm's responsible management.

 

[Jugger]

I think they also wanted to contained a potential evil before it goes out of hand. Seeing how extremism wreaks havoc in many places on daily basis, this move is more than welcome.

I wish organized religions to be entirely driven from every aspects of daily life, including buildings except those that are now deemed as cultural objects.

Sir, do you support a religion free world?

 

[TaiShang]

Sir, do you support a religion free world?

Although not possible, I would like to live in a world where there is no organized (political-class related and interest-based) religions.

I am however in support of ancient cultures and cultural expressions, such as Shamanism or other nature religions. I also consider Dao as a culture-religion with strong secular basis and I am myself a follower of such spiritual path.

 

[Jugger]

Although not possible, I would like to leave in a world where there is no organized (political-class related and interest-based) religions.

I am however in support of ancient cultures and cultural expressions, such as Shamanism or other nature religions. I also consider Dao as a culture-religion with strong secular basis and I am myself a follower of such spiritual path.

My views are also very similar to yours.
I believe the time for organized religion is fading away. It was required at an age where we humans did not understand what was happening around us, but now as we progress further and know more about our surrounding we are less dependent on religion for answers.

The only cure for ignorance is knowledge.

 

[艹艹艹]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordynd...-joined-chinas-super-app-wechat/#2655f1f35e73
Why It Matters That Bill Gates Joined China's Super App WeChat

Jordyn Dahl,
CONTRIBUTOR

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• WeChat boasts 768 million daily users, half of whom use the platform for at least 90 minutes a day
• “Tencent has been very clever about understanding what people need on a daily basis and what their key consumption interests are,”

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is thenewest memberof WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app.

The billionaire posted a 30-second video on his official account “gatesnotes” with a short sentence in Chinese welcoming viewers and describing in English the channel’s focus, which Gates said will act as a personal blog with posts about the books he is reading and other thoughts. The video has accumulated more than 100,000 views and 23,300 likes as of February 15.

Gates is just the latest Western celebrity to create a WeChat account, joining Selena Gomez, the Backstreet Boys, and actor John Cusack.

“In the mobile market, WeChat is where people spend most of their time. If you want to reach Chinese people, WeChat is the place,” said Ken Xu, a partner at venture capital firm Gobi Partners.

Celebrities frequently use Chinese social media apps to connect with their overseas fan base. Gates created an account on Weibo, a popular microblogging website, in 2010 and has more than 3 million followers. Apple CEO Tim Cook and physicist Stephen Hawking also maintain profiles on the website.

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But the migration to WeChat underscores the app’s relevancy in Chinese pop culture and dominance over Chinese life.WeChat boasts 768 million daily users, half of whom use the platform for at least 90 minutes a day, according to a2016 WeChat study.

Tencent, one of China’s largest tech companies, launched WeChat in 2011 as a messaging app. Over time it evolved into a payment platform that is rivaling Alibaba’s behemoth financial payment system Alipay. Now, users can do everything from pay their electricity bill and order a taxi to buy movie tickets and write a restaurant review –all without ever leaving WeChat.

“Tencent has been very clever about understanding what people need on a daily basis and what their key consumption interests are,”said Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting, a Beijing-based market research firm that focuses on telecommunications and IT.

To keep users in its ecosystem for even longer, the companyreleased “mini programs”last month which act as apps within the platform. Rather than downloading an app from an external source like the Apple App store or the Google Play store, users can run them within WeChat. Google has begun testing a similar program withAndroid Instant Appswhere users can run a company’s software without installing the actual app on their device.

The mini programs – dubbed afterApple raised concernsover the use of the word app – have been met with mixed success. A recent study found that 65 percent of the WeChat mini program users returned to the original mobile app, Natkin said.

Despite its initial lackluster success, if improvedthe initiative could rival Apple to become one of the largest app distributors in China. Analysts were quick to note the program’s launch coincided with the 10thanniversary of the iPhone. Should the mini programs succeed users will have even fewer reasons to leave the WeChat ecosystem.

 

[TaiShang]

Report says WeChat keeps gaining ground
By Fan Feifei | China Daily | Updated: 2017-04-14

Reporters from Chinese and Russian media outlets visit the headquarters of WeChat in Tianhe district, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Oct 28, 2016. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]


Monthly active users of WeChat, a popular social networking app run by internet behemoth Tencent Holdings Ltd, rose to 889 million last year, up 28 percent year-on-year, according to a report which was released on Thursday.

The report, released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said the number of active WeChat users last year helped directly drive 174.3 billion yuan ($25.3 billion) of information-sector spending, an increase of 26.2 percent on the previous year.

The report said WeChat has helped boost domestic information-sector consumption, a category that includes e-commerce, internet and cloud computing technology.

The government has urged to expand consumption to create new sources of economic growth and to help drive industry upgrading.

The report added that the popular messaging app, which provides a wide range of services, from hailing taxis to paying bills, created jobs for 18.81 million people in 2016, up 7.7 percent year-on-year.

It found that the proportion of older WeChat users was gradually increasing.

Those aged over 55 using voice messages accounted for 22 percent of the total, while their average length of time spent on audio and video calling service reached 82 minutes, higher than other groups of users.

The report also found that WeChat has quickened the transmission of information, changed people's paying habits and the channels with which people get information.

More than 50 percent of users spend more than 1.5 hours daily on WeChat and more than one-third of users often use WeChat for more than four hours, the report said.

Ma Shicong, an analyst at Beijing-based internet consultancy Analysys, said: "WeChat has accumulated a large number of loyal users by providing various services, from instant messaging, information to mobile payments."

WeChat helps make lives easier and more convenient, Ma said.

The report also showed the WeChat official accounts were favored by users, with 36.1 percent of them following or subscribing to accounts related to in news and information.

It added that the number of users of WeChat Pay, the mobile payment platform, has surpassed 600 million, and more than 1 million offline stores get entry points to the platform.

More than 30 percent of users said the WeChat Pay had changed their paying habits as they only need to take their mobile phones when going out to shop.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

China’s party officials warned not to cross ‘red lines’ while using WeChat

Disciplinary watchdog identifies eight prohibited behaviours

Mimi Lau
mimi.lau@scmp.com

4 Apr 2017

Disparaging party policies, sharing pornography and spreading rumours are among eight “red lines” Chinese Communist Party officials must not cross while using WeChat, a popular social media platform, the ruling party’s disciplinary watchdog has instructed.

As with many other large organisations that seek to moderate their members’ social media presence, the 88-million-member Chinese Communist Party has been attempting to control the words and acts of its officials on WeChat, the Tencent Technologies mobile platform that has 889 million active users.

According to a notice published on a WeChat account run by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the anti-graft agency run by Wang Qishan, the other prohibited behaviours are accepting electronic “red envelopes” of money transfers, vote-rigging, leaking confidential information, opening online shops and publishing “inappropriate” statements.

While US President Donald Trump is known for delivering policy message via his Twitter account, China’s top leaders are still largely distancing themselves from social media platforms. At the same time, Chinese government agencies and local authorities are rushing to create accounts on platforms such as WeChat and Weibo to deliver information directly to the public.

Chinese residents increasingly rely on such mobile platforms to socialise and work.

WeChat is particularly popular with mobile phone users for its chat, phone call, picture sharing, payment and shopping functions.

In warning Communist Party officials, the notice also detailed previous offenders who crossed the red lines. Those offenders were punished by verbal warnings, job dismissals and even imprisonment.

According to the article, an unnamed local police chief republished an article questioning the value of “one country, two systems”, China’s state policy in dealing with Hong Kong, on his WeChat account, and received disciplineary punishment as a result.

In another case, a local government employee in Hubei accidentally published a pornographic picture to a chat group of 500 people, most of them are public service staff, and the employee was demoted within 18 hours.

Officials were also told not to spread rumours or circulate unverified information to avoid negative social impact. They are prohibited from receiving online red packets regardless of the financial amount or purpose for which it is transferred.

Cadres at grassroots levels were also warned not to send any “red packets” during election periods.

Leaking state secrets or internal government office information and expressions of inappropriate opinion via channels such as WeChat were strictly prohibited and would be punished with severe discipline, the notice said.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...als-warned-not-cross-red-lines-while#comments

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

This is a definite step back.
Policies of the party must be allowed to be questioned and criticized, otherwise there will be no new thought, and appreciation of problems.

China's opening up happened due to constant criticism and lively debate of Communist Party policy within and outside the party circles.

@TaiShang @cirr @AndrewJin @Shotgunner51 et al

 

[Offshore]

This is a definite step back.
Policies of the party must be allowed to be questioned and criticized, otherwise there will be no new thought, and appreciation of problems.

China's opening up happened due to constant criticism and lively debate of Communist Party policy within and outside the party circles.

@TaiShang @cirr @AndrewJin @Shotgunner51 et al

Coming from Indian... that's rich..

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Coming from an Indian... that's rich..

How? In India we criticize almost everything day and night.

I can't understand what your comment possibly means.