It has been a busy year in China and we published over 600 articles. In case you missed a few, here is our Editor’s Choice of 12 stories that we don’t think you’d have found anywhere else.

Week in China is back in its regular format on January 10, 2020.

Happy Christmas to all our readers!

Internet and tech

The star online performer of 2019? Was it Bytedance’s Douyin…
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/01/fifteen-seconds-of-fame/

An internet giant that had a more troubled time: Baidu
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/02/searching-high-and-low/

Facing the future: facial recognition giant Megvii heads for IPO
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/09/first-impressions/

Meet the 15 year-old who dropped out of school to be an e-sports star
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/07/going-pro-at-15/

Why netizens keep a close eye on the guest list for an annual business dinner in Wuzhen
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/11/following-the-fanju/

Consumption trends

The year of the KOL? Meet the ‘engines’ of Chinese e-commerce
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/04/people-with-influence/

‘Tao labels’ and the changing face of retail
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/06/exit-stage-left-2/

Transport

How high-speed trains have transformed China
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/02/a-well-trained-country/

How the home delivery revolution is changing employment patterns
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/03/on-their-bikes/

Economy

What Netflix’s documentary on glassmaker Fuyao says about globalisation
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/08/crystal-clear/

Why the purge of Shanghai’s tycoons?
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/09/battle-of-the-bund-begins/

Environment

The Chinese green campaigner who took on Apple and won
https://www.weekinchina.com/2019/09/the-man-who-changed-apple/