Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet/Google revealed that Google hopes to provide services in China at a Beijing TechCrunch event today.
“The interesting thing is that Google never left China,” Schmidt said of the company’s 2012 withdrawal from the Mainland. He added that Google still has servers in Hong Kong and offices in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
“In fact, we hope to provide service in China, and we continue to communicate with the Chinese government,” he said.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has previously hinted at the company’s plans to return to the Chinese market. With the company’s reorganization as Alphabet, some of its subsidiaries may return to the Chinese market ahead of other services.
Schmidt had previously visited China 20 years ago, and was “very shocked,” by the pace of China’s economic development since.
China now has Didi, Uber, Amazon, and other successful courier services. Alipay and WeChat Wallet have also taken the market by storm. 10 years ago, these kinds of businesses were not even on the radar in China.
Source: inews.qq.com
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