Wei Xing doesn’t seem to fear change.
In almost two decades in the Chinese media industry, he has moved from working at newspapers in Shanghai to setting up some of the most innovative digital media outlets in China: The Paper, which is overseen by Shanghai United Media Group, a conglomerate owned by the Chinese Communist Party, but doesn’t shy away from controversial topics. He also set up its English-language sibling Sixth Tone.
Not content with text-focused ventures, Wei Xing took the next step into video in 2016, creating Pear Video, which produces short, viral news clips. With a cash injection of more than $15 million from China Media Capital and reportedly nearly $100 million in a Series A funding round, Pear now claims it is China’s leading short news video platform with around 500 million daily views.
Read the full account, by Paloma Amoguera writing for The SPLICE Newsroom, HERE.
