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Yuanbaopu CEO attends World Internet Conference

Date: Dec 16-18

Venue: Wuzhen, Zhejiang

Financing difficulties has been the bottleneck in obtaining loans for SME development, Chen Ruigui, CEO of Yuanbaopu, a financial data service platform from Zhejiang uses big data technology to help banks to monitor in real-time the loan risks, while SMEs will have easy access to loans without mortgages. China has more than 50 million SMEs, they are the backbone of economic development.

He says his platform can improve the efficiency of financial institutions' loan approval process, and for SMEs, it can help reduce credit cost of credit. By relying on big data technology, they establish a healthy supply and demand relationship between SMEs and banks. Currently, 80 percent of SMEs have little credit records in the banks, while yuanbaopu's help can efficiently assess their creditworthiness. A plurality of financial institutions including Merchants Bank, Ping An Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank have established a strategic partnership with them. Through the collection of SMEs' electricity provider accounts, telecommunication services, billing and financial transactions data, they use data modeling analysis to set up fraud model, industry model, shop model and business credit models to monitor post-loan lenders' operation in real-time, and give banks advance warnings, so that banks have sufficient time to react if fraud behavior occurs. More than 20,000 SMEs has been approved of credit for more than 2 billion yuan via them.

Mobile M+: Live Art

Date: Dec 12-20－All day

Venue: Multiple locations in Hong Kong

Price: Free

M+, Hong Kong's future museum for 20th and 21st century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District, will present Mobile M+: Live Art, a series of cross-disciplinary public performance art events and exhibitions taking place at 8 different locations around the city which aim at exploring aspects of 'liveness' in contemporary art. Mobile M+: Live Art, the 9th project in the acclaimed series prior to the opening of M+ in 2019, expands the definition of the work of art from a static object to a situation, where the main medium is the artist or performer's body and looks to voice, breath, movement and physical effort as channels of artistic expression. Set across multiple sites in Hong Kong and spread over 17 days from 4 to 20 December, the show will include 10 artists of different generations from Hong Kong and South China, as well as Korea, Singapore and the United States. "Mobile M+: Live Art will not only challenge the conventional practices of both exhibition and performance, but also reflects the increasingly boundary-crossing, multidisciplinary practices of contemporary artists, who have long expanded their art making beyond galleries and exhibition halls into theatrical stages and public spaces," said Doryun Chong, Chief Curator for M+ and Co-curator for this exhibition. Scattered throughout Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, live events and exhibition displays will be embedded in diverse neighborhoods. Encompassing staged performances in a theatre setting, outdoor actions and interventions as well as displays of artworks doubling as performance documentation, Mobile M+: Live Art will feature a wide assortment of works dating from the mid-1990s to the present day. Venues: 1. Connecting Space Hong Kong (G/F, Wah Kin Mansion, 18-20 Fort Street, North Point, Hong Kong); 2. Multimedia Theatre, School of Creative Media, City University (Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, 18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon Tong); 3. Theater2, Sunbeam Theater (423 King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong); 4. Tim Mei Avenue footbridge, Admiralty, Hong Kong (6.12) West Kowloon Cultural District (11&12.12); 5. Cattle Depot Artist Village (Unit 12, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon); 6. Exhibition Hall, Sheung Wan Civic Center (6/F, Sheung Wan Municipal Services Building, 345 Queen's Road, Hong Kong).

Website: westkowloon.hk/liveart