News Briefing for July 1st. In today’s news, we will cover the ban on Chinese apps in India, Pinduoduo’s new CEO and Airbnb’s new China COO, Alipay’s steps to boost the Chinese economy amid the pandemic, an unexpected lawsuit between Tencent and Laoganma, China’s chili sauce giant, and McDonald’s actions to reduce plastic use in China. For What’s up, China?, we will dive into a piece of personal news on a top livestreamer and his success in attaining a ‘Hukou’, a form of household registration, in Shanghai.

China Tech Briefing is hosted by Caiwei Chen and co-produced by Caiwei Chen and Hazel Tang. Also thanks to our reporter Zhao Lu with her writing and intern Qiu Jiayi for helping with the interview. For more information, check our www.pandaily.com (http://www.pandaily.com/) and find us @thepandaily on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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