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Top China digital news from the last week: Alibaba Taobao has officially rolled out a new app called Taoxiaopu to leverage social e-commerce, Baidu has beaten Microsoft and Google in an ongoing natural language processing competition, Baidu among the first batch of companies to launch autonomous driving tests with real passengers in Beijing, a consortium led by China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy 10% of Universal Music Group from French media company Vivendi SA, Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) cut the starting price for its China-made Model 3 sedans by 16%, Xiaomi will invest over CNY50 billion (USD7.2 billion) in 5G & AIoT, The health care subsidiary of e-commerce giant JD.com was ranked as the most valuable among 22 new unicorns

Cross-border e-commerce pilot zones expanded; China's Ministry of Public Security busted 15 cases of illegal payments, involving US$7.73 billion

Xiaomi announced its partnership today with crowdfunding platform indiegogo for its e-commerce platform Youpin to promote Chinese products and brands overseas

TikTok, Likee made it to world's most downloaded non-game app in 2019; Lenovo founder stepping down; Tencent increased its stake in Vipshop

new rules governing video and audio content online, including a ban on the publishing and distribution of “fake news” created with AI VR technologies

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A brief introduction to Double 12 and this year's focus from Alibaba.

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More Chinese men using facial moisturizer than in any other country (64% compared with a 10% global average) and face wash (63% compared with 25% globally).