China is scheduled to have a symposium with the country’s Big Tech firms on the heels of the Politburo meeting on Friday, raising hopes that Beijing will stop its sweeping regulatory clampdown on the tech sector and give internet platforms larger roles to help prop up the ailing economy, according to two sources briefed on the situation.
The symposium has been set for after the Labour Day holiday, which lasts from Saturday to Wednesday this year, to assure business executives that regulators will no longer demand rectifications or impose surprise fines, two people, who declined to be named as the briefings were private, told the South China Morning Post.
The country’s major Big Tech players, including e-commerce platform Alibaba Group Holding, social media and video gaming giant Tencent Holdings, online delivery and on-demand service platform Meituan, and TikTok owner ByteDance, are all invited. Alibaba is the owner of the Post.
The key message to tech companies is that the state wants them to grow and play a role in Beijing’s efforts to bolster an economy battered by Covid-19 controls, such as through the distribution of consumption vouchers, according to one source.
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