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Julie Zhang
Reporter, Business
Julie Zhang joined SCMP in 2025 as a business reporter. She was formerly with China Daily Hong Kong Edition for over five years, covering corporate earnings, IPOs, financial regulations, ESG, cryptocurrency and property markets. Her reporting garnered multiple Hong Kong News Awards and Hang Seng University's Business Journalism Award.
Julie Zhang joined SCMP in 2025 as a business reporter. She was formerly with China Daily Hong Kong Edition for over five years, covering corporate earnings, IPOs, financial regulations, ESG, cryptocurrency and property markets. Her reporting garnered multiple Hong Kong News Awards and Hang Seng University's Business Journalism Award.
Areas of Expertise:
Corporate finance, IPOSLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
The deal comes as Chinese novel drug makers are having more say in how their new medicines are developed with global partners.
Mainland China’s issuers will still dominate city’s IPO market, executive says, but US and Southeast Asian companies are also joining in.
Some retreat to the sidelines as another fund suspends new investments and futures plunge, while others remain determined to buy the dip.
Fifth consecutive sell-out at Sai Sha development shows recovery gathering pace, with analysts forecasting further price increases ahead.
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Global institutional investors have built up sizeable positions in firms including Innovent, 3SBio, WuXi Biologics, Jiangsu Hengrui, Akeso and BeOne.
Latest example of Chinese drug maker acquiring equity in overseas partner shows they are becoming true development partners, analysts say.
While US biotech firms increase use of Chinese clinical data, Chinese firms need US counterparts for monetisation, investor and scientist says.
The agreement will help SF Holding expand its international businesses, according to the Shenzhen-based company.
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Over the past year, 34 innovation and technology, life and health science companies set up or expanded their operations in Hong Kong.
Chinese drug makers signed 157 out-licensing deals with global pharmaceutical firms last year versus 94 a year earlier.
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US firm, backed by Fosun and Tencent, expands research base in China as it develops an AI-powered drug-discovery tool.
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Bradley succeeds Patrick Healy, who will retire from the Swire Group in May next year after over three decades of service.
Survey of multinational corporations finds optimism in life sciences, healthcare and manufacturing, with half forecasting revenue growth.
Hong Kong plans to build an international gold trading centre as part of a wider commodities hub push.
US drug makers are racing to plug looming ‘patent cliff’ revenue gaps – and increasingly they are turning to China biotechs.
BeOne generated global revenue of about US$3.8 billion last year, driven by its flagship products Brukinsa and Tevimbra.
GigaDevice and Montage are each aiming to raise as much as US$1 billion from Hong Kong listings as early as January, report says.
The China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Invention Index, a new gauge, highlights top drug makers on the mainland for the first time.
The three-way merger will create China’s fourth-largest investment bank with assets of US$128 billion.
New insurance formulary trims costs of Alzheimer’s and cancer therapies and marks a small win for global novel drug makers.
Yarrow Bioscience gets exclusive global rights for the GenSci098 therapy to treat thyroid eye disease and Graves’ disease.
