China’s Tencent Holdings has reported its smallest quarterly revenue growth in 18 years amid Beijing’s regulatory clampdown on big tech firms. The company recently released its Q4 and full-year financial reports for 2021. Its Q4 revenue increased 8 percent year-on-year, the slowest growth since the company went public in 2004. Its non-IFRS net profit in Q4 fell 25 percent versus 2020, while its non-IFRS net profit for the entire year was up 1 percent year-on-year—the slowest yearly growth rate on record. At the company’s earnings conference, Tencent President Liu Zhiping said that new employee recruitment will slow down this year, while Tencent founder, chairman and CEO Pony Ma, reminded employees that they need to prepare for “the winter time.” Mike Sun, an investment strategist in North America and an expert on China issues, told The Epoch Times that due to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) regulatory policies, internet companies listed …