{"id":48541,"date":"2017-10-24T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T07:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48541"},"modified":"2017-10-24T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T08:50:15","slug":"airbnb-china-head-exits-a-week-after-co-founder-named-unit-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/airbnb-china-head-exits-a-week-after-co-founder-named-unit-chair.html","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb China head exits a week after co-founder named unit chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Airbnb China head exits a week after co-founder named unit chair<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Airbnb China head exits a week after co-founder named unit chair: Hong Ge, who previously worked for Google Inc and Facebook Inc, left to pursue another role and the firm is yet to name a successor, said Airbnb in a short statement on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Reuters was unable to reach Ge for comment on Tuesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Kum Hong Siew, the firm\u2019s current regional director for the Asia Pacific region, will take over the role in an interim capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Airbnb faces tough regulatory challenges in China, where movement between cities is closely monitored and people are required to register temporary stays with local police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Last week, the company announced that co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk would become chairman of Airbnb\u2019s China arm, which goes under the name of \u2018Aibiying\u2019 and competes against local services Tujia.com and Xiaozhu.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Airbnb in that announcement also said it has plans to double the number staff in China over the next year and introduce new quality standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">This month Chinese authorities banned listings on all short-term rental apps in central Beijing during the 19th Congress, a high-profile political event where police increase scrutiny of illegal movement and people who fail to register their residences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Airbnb, which has roughly 120,000 listing in China, has also had to comply with a national cyber law introduced in 2016 that requires private user data to be stored locally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">source:http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-airbnb\/airbnbs-china-head-exits-a-week-after-co-founder-named-units-chair-idUSKBN1CT0CD<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/airbnb-china-head-exits-a-week-after-co-founder-named-unit-chair.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  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