{"id":103477,"date":"2020-03-09T00:22:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T07:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/how-chinas-tech-firms-are-coping-with-the-coronavirus-downturn"},"modified":"2020-03-09T00:22:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T07:22:54","slug":"how-chinas-tech-firms-are-coping-with-the-coronavirus-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/how-chinas-tech-firms-are-coping-with-the-coronavirus-downturn","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s tech firms are coping with the coronavirus downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-chinas-tech-firms-are-coping-with-the-coronavirus-downturn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the outbreak, China\u2019s tech industry was already under pressure from the ongoing trade war with the US, which has seen expansion plans crimped by a tighter funding environment and macro economic slowdown. A rapid rise in the number of unemployed could pose a big challenge for the world\u2019s second-largest economy which has seen growth rates already slow to near three-decade lows.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A growing number of Chinese tech-related companies have adopted \u2018self-rescue\u2019 plans as the coronavirus epidemic disrupts their business operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the outbreak, China\u2019s tech industry was already under pressure from the ongoing trade war with the US, which has seen expansion plans crimped by a tighter funding environment and macro economic slowdown. A rapid rise in the number of unemployed could pose a big challenge for the world\u2019s second-largest economy which has seen growth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}