"However, I am keen to mingle with people, sample new delicacies and learn about China's engineering prowess and how it can be applied here in Kenya.

Chen, who spends roughly 150 yuan ($21.8) on beverages every week, sees this as a daily routine and an occasion to mingle with his friends and catch up on the latest developments in the gaming sector and also topics of other interest.

That explains why many carmakers are striving to woo young car buyers, offering them fancy onboard features, financial schemes with lower monthly installments and clubs where they can mingle.

Running from Oct 24 to Oct 27, the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI 2020) takes the form of Justice Online, a role-playing game developed by Chinese company NetEase, Inc. Over a dozen functions including embedded PPT-demonstration and text and audio chat are available in the immersive system, allowing attendees like A. M. Turing Award laureate John E. Hopcroft, who is also a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to mingle with global peers in a martial arts fantasy world set in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127).