China’s top tech chiefs are stepping down from their leadership roles amid Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the sector. E-commerce giant JD.com’s wealthy founder Richard Liu is the most recent executive to step down. Last year, both Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok-owner ByteDance , and Su Hua, founder of TikTok’s main rival Kuaishou, gave up CEO positions.

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