Hey, Cynica listeners. Our Golden Week Sinica Network Bonanza wraps up today with a very recent

episode of TechBuzz China, in which hosts Ray Ma and Yi Yinglu delved into one of the iconic

Chinese internet companies, net ease from its early days through its near-death experience in 2001

to its rebirth and multiple reinventions since.

Find out all about founder William Ding, why an internet company owns, of all things,

a pig farm and prospects for the IPO of Netis's property, Yodal.

If you like what you hear, subscribe to TechBuzz and enjoy.

So, October 1st marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China,

aka Mingland China, and also brings with it a week-long holiday, usually referred to as golden week.

For our listeners in China, we hope you're enjoying your long vacation. And for those

who are not, which would be the majority of you, that would explain the slowdown in tech news

coming out of the country. We were actually going to take this week off, but in light of our upcoming

invite-only investor trip to China, we thought we'd squeeze in one last episode and take

next week off instead. Oh, for those of you who are wondering, we will have a meet-up in Beijing

on Tuesday, October 8th at Taco Bar in Sainlington, and in Shanghai on Thursday, October 10th,

at Hotel Indigo Rooftop. We'll be there on both days from 8.30 to 10.30 p.m.

And so come and have a beer on us.

And with us.

We would love to hear what you think

and how we can improve to make TechBus even better.

Well, while we decided to work instead of play,

it looks like some other poor, overworked investment bankers

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