5 Must-Read Tech Stories in China This Week

This was an interesting week in China, with big-money landmarks being met and wars (maybe) being kicked off. Let’s dive in.

1. Shots Fired: China’s Coming Internet Wars

Things look like they’re about to start getting ugly between Baidu, Tencent, and Qihoo, and Alibaba could join the fray too. Is this going to be the hallmark of China’s web during the second half of this year?

2. CASS Report: China’s Microbloggers Are Young, Under-Educated, and Poor

A CASS study comes to some pretty surprising conclusions about weibo’s users, who many assumed to be mostly elites.

3. Baidu Cloud Breaks 70 Million Users, Growing at 200k Users a Day

Baidu posts some incredible numbers in terms of growth for its cloud service. But it doesn’t face much compeition there…yet. Is this another market Qihoo might jump into?

4. This Is The Year China Becomes The World’s Top E-Commerce Market (CHARTS)

An incredible accomplishment for China’s e-commerce industry, and also impressive given that half of China isn’t even online yet. This market is going to get a lot bigger.

5. China’s Luxury E-Commerce Market to Be Worth $27 Billion in 2013 (INFOGRAPHIC)

Speaking of huge e-commerce markets, China’s luxury market may have cooled some, but the luxury e-commerce market is still gigantic, and still growing.

That’s all for this week, folks. For our full spread of China coverage, you can click here or subscribe to our China RSS.