{"id":171440,"date":"2025-09-26T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171440\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:14:09","slug":"chinese-startups-race-for-global-growth-with-low-cost-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171440\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese startups race for global growth with low-cost hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/startups\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Startups<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Domestic price pressures dent valuations but help launch products quickly, cheaply<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20250926 china massages\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">NetEase, a gaming company, incubated a startup developing robots that can perform massages &#8212; one example of a new Chinese hardware venture. (Photo by Wataru Suzuki)<\/p>\n<p>WATARU SUZUKI<\/p>\n<p>September 26, 2025 14:31 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SHANGHAI &#8212; Chinese startup founders are striving to take products global, as deflationary pressures squeeze valuations but help new companies launch hardware quickly and at low cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups Domestic price pressures dent valuations but help launch products quickly, cheaply NetEase, a gaming company, incubated a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,4690,198,3141,208,40169,111872,3173,1483],"class_list":["post-171440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-chinese","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-global","tag-growth","tag-hardware","tag-low-cost","tag-race","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}