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Zhou Xiaopeng is vice-chief of Alibaba Culture

Alibaba Culture and Entertainment Group has appointed Zhou Xiaopeng, former editorin-chief of Sina, an online media company, as its vice-chairman, Zhou will be in charge of UC Browser, the company’s media platform application with more than 600 million active users per quarter. The platform can select information the audience may be interested in through the application of big data. Zhou, with 20 years of experience in news portals and social media, was expected to help in content optimization, resource integration and brand building of UC Browser. He will also lead the short video business of the group.

Chen to head several divisions of Sanpower

Chinese conglomerate Sanpower Group has appointed Chen Xudong as vice-president in charge of its computer, communication, consumer electronics and emerging new business divisions. In May, Chen resigned as Lenovo Group’s head of global business. In June 2015, he began to lead the mobile business of Lenovo. He shelved many products to focus only on two, Moto and Zuk. The company’s financial report in February showed income from its intelligent cellphones in 2016 was $2.19 billion, down 23 percent year-onyear. Since graduating from Peking University in 1992, Chen has worked at Lenovo for more than 20 years.

Nie Mei steps down from Hunan, Mango TV

Nie Mei, vice-president of Hunan Broadcasting System and chairman of Mango TV, the media major’s online broadcast platform, stepped down in late