Shanghai plans $276 billion funding support for innovative tech firms, Dongfeng Motors considers making cars in Italy

Selling food delivery platform would send an efficient delivery team to its competitor, warns market analyst

A younger generation is taking hold of the reins at Alibaba group as another long-serving executive, Yu Yongfu, prepares to step down

Government hauls in ride-hailers, Xiaomi’s profit slumps

E-commerce giant has lost valuable ground to fast-growing rival as it tries to figure out strategy for its year-old locally-based lifestyle services unit

Media exposure forces Meituan, Ele.me to ease tight deadlines after revelations of drivers being maimed, killed in racing against the clock to deliver orders

Company merges older Koubei service with recent purchase Ele.me

Combination of Koubei and Ele.me gets $3 billion injection in escalating battle with Meituan-Dianping as Alibaba revenue beats forecasts

Alibaba Group’s food-delivery venture seeks to regain ground lost to Tencent’s Meituan during rocky merger with Baidu

Regional operators stage sit in to complain of significant losses after sale to Ele.me

Baidu sells Ele.me stake to Alibaba for $488 million, exiting heated competition in food-delivery business

China’s three largest food delivery platforms are under investigation for claims of unfair competition

Competition in takeout market heats up as Meituan, Didi eye shares

Ele.me held 55.3% of China’s takeout market in fourth quarter of 2017

Alibaba affiliate Ele.me agrees to pay $800 million for Waimai, narrowing the Chinese restaurant-meal-delivery sector to two major players

Violent scuffle between Ele.me, Meituan.com employees shows how intense turf wars in sector can easily become physical