{"id":307750,"date":"2026-02-24T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307750\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:28:10","slug":"ai-apps-soar-in-china-as-lunar-new-year-giveaway-battle-boosts-user-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307750\/","title":{"rendered":"AI apps soar in China as Lunar New Year giveaway battle boosts user growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giants claimed a victory after a promotional giveaway campaign for their <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/native\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/topics\/ai-driven-tourism-tomorrow\/article\/3343029\/how-use-ai-will-help-travel-operators-transform-behaviour-holidaymakers?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> services during the Lunar New Year, touting surging user numbers and the adoption of AI as part of holiday <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3343726\/chinas-xi-prioritises-ai-plus-and-consumer-spending-counter-economic-headwinds?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">consumption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During the period, Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s AI app Qwen saw nearly 200 million orders placed, according to data released by the company on Monday. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Among the users were more than four million people aged 60 and above who completed purchases within two to three exchanges with the Qwen chatbot instead of navigating multiple apps, Alibaba said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt is becoming a new custom during the Spring Festival for users to buy food and beverages, book flights and hotels, and purchase movie and attraction tickets through Qwen,\u201d Alibaba said on the official WeChat account of the Qwen app.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meituan, the on-demand delivery giant and a major rival of Alibaba, said more than 100 million people used its AI assistant Xiaotuan to plan holiday itineraries between February 12 and 22.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An advertisement for ByteDance\u2019s Doubao at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8f8c93f0-962e-4dbe-b15a-4d69286e0f1d_b9082c3d.jpg\" title=\"An advertisement for ByteDance\u2019s Doubao at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Photo: AFP\"\/>An advertisement for ByteDance\u2019s Doubao at the Beijing Capital International Airport. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The extensive adoption reflects how Chinese tech giants are winning acceptance for AI-powered services, fuelled by multibillion yuan promotional campaigns amid the heated domestic race for AI commercialisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese tech giants claimed a victory after a promotional giveaway campaign for their artificial intelligence services during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,8904,2948,2939,12174,18986,154605,343,344,14158,8164,1657,8168,85679,154604,85,46,117632,3544,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-307750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-agents","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","12":"tag-ant-group","13":"tag-apple-app-store","14":"tag-aq","15":"tag-artificial-intelligence","16":"tag-artificialintelligence","17":"tag-baidu","18":"tag-bytedance","19":"tag-china","20":"tag-doubao","21":"tag-douyin","22":"tag-hongguo","23":"tag-il","24":"tag-israel","25":"tag-lunar-new-year","26":"tag-meituan","27":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}