BEIJING ¨C Wang Miaoyi¡¯s small one-bedroom apartment, which doubles as her design studio, is overflowing with game magazines, figurines and boxes of sci-fi novels.
The 30-year old game developer is a child of the county¡¯s tech boom: She studied at one of China¡¯s top universities and her company hit it big with an award-winning game that was published on Nintendo¡¯s Switch console and the PC gaming platform Steam, with plans for roll-out on other game platforms.
Now her ambitions ¡ª and those of many others across China¡¯s giant tech industry ¡ª are facing a reckoning, amid rising state control over the sector, tightening regulation and a biting trade war with the United States stymieing growth.
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