{"id":38614,"date":"2021-11-03T20:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/chairman-tiktok-owner-bytedance-steps-down-zhang-yiming-beijing-tightens-grip"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T11:30:20","slug":"chairman-of-tiktok-owner-bytedance-steps-down-as-beijing-tightens-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38614","title":{"rendered":"Chairman of TikTok owner ByteDance steps down as Beijing tightens grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Yiming relinquishes role at firm he co-founded, one of Chinese tech\u2019s biggest global success stories<\/p>\n<p>The chair of TikTok\u2019s owner, ByteDance, has stepped down, as the Chinese government tightens its control of China\u2019s tech sector and maintains pressure on the industry\u2019s domestic entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Yiming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/20\/bytedance-ceo-zhang-yiming-stands-aside-daydreaming-tiktok\">announced in May<\/a> he would step down as chief executive of the tech company he co-founded and on Wednesday he relinquished his chair title, with ByteDance\u2019s English-language website no longer featuring a page that mentioned his formal board role. Instead, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytedance.com\/en\/resources\/executives\">photo of Zhang<\/a> under the heading of \u201cleadership\u201d with no title underneath. ByteDance declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/03\/chairman-tiktok-owner-bytedance-steps-down-zhang-yiming-beijing-tightens-grip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang Yiming relinquishes role at firm he co-founded, one of Chinese tech\u2019s biggest global success storiesThe chair of TikTok\u2019s owner, ByteDance, has stepped down, as the Chinese government tightens its control of China\u2019s tech sector and maintains pres&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,58,1496,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-technology","category-tiktok","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38614\/revisions\/38615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}