Смартфон приложенията в съвременен Китай – отражение на глобалния и технологичен напредък на страната.
Smartphone Applications in Today’s China – Reflection of the Country‘s Advancement on the Global and Technological Stage.

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the most popular and widely used smartphone applications in China and their rapid development. The research is based on personal observations made by the author while conducting field work in Beijing during the period between the beginning of September 2017 the end of January 2018. The first application discussed in this work is WeChat, which started as just a social media platform but quickly became much more than that. It now contains various services, the most important one being WeChat Pay. Then we move on to Taobao and Meituan-Dianpin. Taobao is a website and an application for online shopping where one can buy almost anything, and Meituan is an app where food can be ordered from a vast choice of establishments offering local or international cuisine or goods from supermarkets. The latter two applications are Jing Dong – similar to Taobao, but focused on selling electronics and other pieces of technology – and DiDi Chixing which is the equivalent of Uber and mainly offers ride-hailing services.

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