Alibaba is the force behind hit Chinese Communist Party app: sources

Chinese government propaganda app Xuexi Qiangguo, which literally translates as 'Study to make China strong', is seen on a mobile phone in front of its website on a computer screen in this illustration picture taken February 18, 2019. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/Illustration u000d u000d

BEIJING: A Chinese government propaganda app that recently became a huge hit was developed by Alibaba, two people at the company told Reuters, at a time when the nation’s tech firms are under global scrutiny over their ties to Beijing. 

Xuexi Qiangguo, which literally translates as ‘Study to make China strong’ and is a play on the government propaganda theme of applying President Xi Jinping’s thoughts, overtook Tik Tok and WeChat to become the county’s most popular app on Apple’s China app store last week.