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Themis Qi
Reporter, Business
Themis joined SCMP in 2025 as a business reporter. She previously covered business trends in Hong Kong and mainland China with topics including financial market, EV and new energy. Prior to joining SCMP, she worked for The Standard for more than three years. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Themis joined SCMP in 2025 as a business reporter. She previously covered business trends in Hong Kong and mainland China with topics including financial market, EV and new energy. Prior to joining SCMP, she worked for The Standard for more than three years. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the Hong Kong Baptist University.
Areas of Expertise:
Finance, new energyLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Banking regulator sets fintech road map with quantum index and measures to boost security, data quality and skills.
Eastroc, which raised US$1.3 billion in city’s biggest IPO so far this year, draws strong retail demand amid heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Some retreat to the sidelines as another fund suspends new investments and futures plunge, while others remain determined to buy the dip.
The bank’s mobile app and in-person services at several branches were unavailable for up to several hours for some customers during the outage.
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The trading halts and alerts aim to ‘maintain the stability of the capital markets’ and protect investors from ‘huge losses’, analyst says.
Shares of Labubu toymaker Pop Mart jumped after the Chinese firm unveiled plans to open more than 20 new stores in the US this year.
Executives are urging a measured approach as Chinese firms turn to global markets amid intensifying competition at home.
Office in city is ‘vital’ to service financial institutions ‘where they’re seeing a lot of their growth’, executive says.
Stock exchanges have become another barometer in the US-China tech rivalry as markets assess a wave of start-ups in real time.
A policy-backed push to build commercial space champions is reshaping China’s IPO pipeline, with regulators signalling faster pathways.
As China seeks new engines of growth, finance is emerging as an unexpected backer of the country’s commercial space ambitions.
Already home to world’s largest power system, Beijing moves to lock in advantage through record investment.
Utility’s five-year plan to modernise grids and boost renewables lifts electricity equipment makers as AI demand drives energy growth.
Chinese carmakers sold more than 2.6 million units to overseas markets last year, up 104 per cent from a year earlier, association says.
China exported 206 gigawatts of photovoltaic modules in the first nine months of 2025, up 10 per cent from a year earlier.
The leading seller of meat and fresh produce on the mainland plans to open 1,400 stores in the next five years using proceeds from the IPO.
GigaDevice shares surge as investors chase Beijing’s self-sufficiency theme, with retail demand oversubscribed more than 540 times.
Julius Baer set a 12-month target for the CSI 300 Index at 5,100, which would be 7.6 per cent higher than Thursday’s close of 4,737.
Guangzhou-based GF Securities announces plan to raise US$780 million after mainland Chinese finance firms raise over US$10 billion in 2025.
HSBC receives strong backing from Hang Seng Bank’s independent shareholders, getting 85.75 per cent of the votes.
The robotics sector was estimated to have raised over US$8.15 billion in 2025, up more than 170 per cent from the year before.
December was the 10th consecutive month where new home transactions exceeded 1,500, the first time the trend was seen in more than 21 years.
Carmakers are shifting from straight price cuts to subsidised loans and feature-packed models, as China’s EV price war drags on.
Last year, 20 Chinese semiconductor IPOs raised over 45 billion yuan (US$6.4 billion), with six of them listing in December.
Suppliers across Asia pursue legal action, but debt recovery prospects remain uncertain.
Listing is the first accepted under a fast-track process for pre-revenue rocket companies, as China prioritises space development.
Listing aims to fund wafer expansion and DRAM upgrades as Beijing drives tech self-reliance.
Recycling platform ATRenew is scaling up as China’s young consumers shed the stigma around second-hand shopping.
The company, marketed overseas as Z.ai, eyes US$6.6 billion valuation with Hong Kong’s first large language model listing.
