Headlines from China: TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer Resigns As US Pressure Mounts

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer Resigns As US Pressure Mounts

Kevin Mayer, chief executive officer of the embattled video-sharing app Tiktok, said on Wednesday that he has decided to leave the company as the current U.S. administration’s pressure on banning the app mounts quickly. Vanessa Pappas, the current general manager of Tikok US, will take over his role as interim global head of the company. Tiktok’s mother company ByteDance said in a statement to the Chinese tech news media TechNode that “the political dynamics of the last few months have significantly changed what the scope of Kevin’s role would be going forward” and that the company fully respects Mayer’s decision. Read more Entertainment Unicorn

Film Executives Call for More Talent Cultivation at the “Motion Picture Association Film Workshop” Held at BJIFF

At the “Motion Picture Association Film Workshop” held at the ongoing Beijing International Film Festival, film executives agreed that more and more talents and professionals should be trained and cultivated for film industrialization in China to help the country become a world film power. “A few phenomenal domestic and foreign blockbusters cannot support the enormous market that is China, nor support sustainable and long-term development of the Chinese industry and the demands from the audience,” said William Feng, vice president for Asia Pacific and head of Greater China of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). “Therefore, the industrialization of Chinese films, especially related specialization and the establishment of industry standards, has increasingly become a focus of our attention,” he said. Read more BJIFF News