During the New Year’s Day holiday of 2023, China saw 52.7134 million domestic tourism trips nationwide, a year-on-year increase of 0.44%, and a comparable recovery of 42.8% compared to the same period in the 2019 New Year’s holiday, according to the data of China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Trip.com revenues up 29% in Q3
Trip.com’s (formerly Ctrip) China domestic and international business continued to show strong recovery momentum in the third quarter of 2022. Both domestic hotel and air reservation revenue saw positive year-over-year growth, with the domestic hotel booking revenue increasing by 25% year over year.
Consumer VR shipment in China up 166% in H1 2022
Most of the new VR products in China are standalone headsets, with many using Pancake lenses for the consumer market, which sees increasing shipments of VR products as the VR content ecosystem dominated by gaming and fitness is developing, according to IDC. Consumer standalone VR shipments in China increased by 166.2% year-over-year in the first […]
Double 11 shopping festival 2022: Tmall and JD sales
Alibaba’s Tmall kicked off the Double 11 Shopping Festival 2022 at 8:00 p.m. on October 24. Compared with the pre-sale started on October 20 or 21 in previous years, the pre-sale time of this year’s Double 11 has been shortened.
China has 67% market share in the world’s new energy vehicles market in Sep
From January to September 2022, the sales volume of generalized new energy vehicles in China reached 9.98 million, including 2.76 million hybrid vehicles, accounting for 28%, according to Passenger Transport Association.
Tencent launched search ads on WeChat
The WeChat advertising team announced the launch of WeChat search advertising on 3 November 2023, which supports competitive promotion capabilities.
Top 3 private traffic platforms for merchants in China
WeChat, Alipay, and short video platforms (Douyin, Kuaishou, etc) have become the most important platforms for Chinese merchants’ private traffic operation according to a report from iResearch. More than 80% of businesses believe that the cost of private traffic has increased by 40%, so the conversion rate and leveraging public traffic have become the core […]
China Fashion Industry in the Next Decade
The domestic demand for shoes and clothing in China has continued to grow rapidly and has leaped to the largest single footwear and clothing consumer market in the world, accounting for a quarter of the total, according to a recent McKinsey whitepaper. In this period of rapid development, driven by various factors such as economy, […]
Why are Chinese sportswear brands launching coffee products?
It is not new for Chinese shoe and apparel brands to get involved in coffee, tea, and even catering products and services. Earlier, some luxury fashion brands tried to sell coffee drinks in the store. According to the information on China Trademark Network, Xtep (China) Co., Ltd. recently applied for the registration of 3 “TE […]
Chinese Quora Zhihu paying users grew by 78% in Q2 2022
In Q2 2022, China’s Quora Zhihu’s user base discontinued its growth, with average MAUs increasing by 12.3% year-over-year to 105.9 million. The average MAUs for the year 2021 was 95.9 million.
Meituan revenues up 16% in Q2 2022
Meituan’s Q2 revenues increased by 16.4% to RMB50.9 billion from RMB43.8 billion for the same period of 2021.
Top mobile app download sources in China
Mobile app download channels integrated with users’ lifestyle use case scenarios have gradually become the focus of mobile app vendors, shortening the download process and improving the user experience. The top download sources of mobile apps in June 2022 in China are Huawei App Store (909 million downloads), App Store (729M), and Oppo App Store […]
China Mobile Internet Insights 2022: Top Mobile Apps & Platforms
The top mobile apps in China by MAU in the first half of 2022 are led by WeChat, Taobao, Alipay, Douyin (TikTok in China), Gaode Maps, Pinduoduo, QQ, Baidu, Sogou Input, and Baidu Input, according to data from QuestMobile. Top Mobile Apps with MAU>100M in H1 2022 The top 5 mobile app categories by total […]
China e-commerce market 2022: top mobile apps and users
Taobao, Pinduoduo, and JD continue to be the top mobile shopping apps by MAU in China in the first half of 2022. WeChat Mini Programs remain a key traffic channel to Meituan Select, Herma, and JD. E-commerce and Shopping in 2021 The average monthly active users of China’s online shopping market exceeded 842 million in […]
Baidu got permits for fully driverless robotaxi services in Chongqing and Wuhan
Baidu announced on 8 August 2022 that it has secured the first permits in China to offer commercial fully driverless robotaxi services to the public on open roads.