More importantly, the government has harnessed public anger over pollution to plough billions of dollars into wind and solar power, becoming the world's biggest investor in renewable energy.
If you want to be the dominant player in a geographical area, you need to go beyond being just a traditional e-commerce player, said Erik Mitteregger, a board member at Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm that was an early Zalando investor and still owns a 32 percent stake.
Waking up with (or before) the sun allows executives like Apple CEO Tim Cook and "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary to get a head start on the day, knocking out tasks before the rest of the world has rolled out of bed.
As well as its substantial stakes in US public companies, Shanda Group is an investor in ElMindA, an Israeli start-up specialising in medical technology analysing brain function, and SpaceVR, a US start-up that aims to offer virtual reality space tourism.
that deadline now looks unachievable, according to people close to the company, given financial difficulties at its main investor, the Chinese entertainment and technology group LeEco, and the halt to construction of its Nevada car factory.
6bn, also offers property and electricity services and is an active investor in early-phase technology start-ups.
Germany's biggest bank has been under intense pressure since it disclosed last month that the US justice department had demanded $14bn to resolve a probe into the alleged mis-selling of mortgage securities, prompting investor fears that Deutsche might be forced to raise capital, and unsettling the bank's clients.
In the US, the most lucrative market for investment banking, brokerage fees or profits from lending to an investor are the cherry on the cake.
The government started drawing up plans for such transfers to the NSSF in June last year, amid investor panic that burst a Chinese stock market bubble.
"The key trigger point, I would say, is the ￡925,000 stamp duty threshold, where rates step up from 5 to 10 per cent, or from 8 to 13 per cent if you are an investor.
Previously, an individual investor was permitted to have one only account.
Wanda, which began life as a real estate investor in the port city of Dalian, makes a point of embedding large, US-style cinemas as well as an anchor chain stores such as Walmart in its property developments across China.
But charging $159 for AirPods does, tweeted Dave Pell, an investor and iOS app developer, referring to the pricey new wireless headphones that Apple launched alongside the iPhone 7.
It is a tribute to Mr Cook after five years at the helm of the world's most valuable company that an accident is more likely to finish him than investor discontent.
None of these are the stuff of investor dreams.
Earlier this summer China's homegrown regional jet the ARJ21, made by AECC investor the Commercial Aircraft Corp.
Mr Stibel is an entrepreneur and investor who founded several companies including Web.
An intensifying shareholder dispute at China Vanke has shaken investor confidence in the property developer, cut its access to bank lending and upended projects during the first half of the year, the group said.
" Bharti was an original investor in the messaging app.
This puts Didi in the unusual position of being an investor in both Uber and in Lyft, in which it took a stake last year.
