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China’s State-Run Companies Restrict Use of Tencent’s Messaging App

China’s State-Run Companies Restrict Use of Tencent’s Messaging App

SINGAPORE—Some Chinese language state-run firms are limiting workers’ use of Tencent Holdings Ltd. ’s fashionable home messaging app, citing safety considerations, in line with folks acquainted with the matter.

This week, managers at at the least 9 state-run firms, together with among the nation’s largest, equivalent to China Cellular Ltd. , China Development Financial institution Corp. and China Nationwide Petroleum Corp., instructed workers that any discussion groups arrange for work functions on Weixin—Tencent’s dominant messaging app in China—might include delicate info and needs to be shut down and deleted, the folks stated.

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