SHANGHAI—China’s big tech companies are circling the auto-repair business in a bid to capture the boom in vehicle maintenance as the country’s vast car fleet begins to age.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and affiliates of Tencent Holdings Ltd., the two superpowers of the Chinese web, are confronting the country’s thousands of mom-and-pop repair shops with the choice of joining one of their new smartphone-based networks or becoming less relevant to China’s fast-growing ranks of digital consumers.
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