China Retail & E-Commerce

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China’s top e-commerce and retail are being integrated, a concept brought by Alibaba “New Retail”. The largest shopping festival in China are Double 11 (or Singles’ Day) in November and mid-year promotion 618 (August 18). View articles related to China’s retail, new retail, online shoppers, and e-commerce market statistics, trends and insights below.

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Alibaba highlights for Q4 2019: revenues up 38% with 711M retail customers

Annual active consumers on Alibaba’s China retail marketplaces reached 711 million, an increase of 18 million from the 12-month period ended in Q3 2019. Mobile

Pinduoduo testing short videos with product searches

During the Chinese New Year holiday, Pinduoduo quietly launched a short video function called “Duoduo Video” in its app.

Looking into Taobao Light Store with Starbucks

If you open mobile Taobao and search “Starbucks”, you may see a new page completely different from before. In the past, when users search an

a cooperative factory of Netease Koala in Shanghai

The gap behind China’s e-commerce factories

This is the third part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. Read part 1 here and part 2

China’s retail sales grew by 8% in 2019; online up 16.5%

In 2019, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China reached 41,164.9 billion yuan (US$6,010 bn), up by 8.0% year-on-year (nominal growth rate). The

Pinduoduo and Taobao’s manufacturing strategies

This is the second part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. Read part 1 here. You can

Insights of e-commerce and manufacturing collaboration in China

This is the first part of a three-part series on e-commerce companies’ exploration and collaboration with the manufacturing industry. You can download the full eBook

China approved 24 more cross-border e-commerce pilot cities and relaxed forex in FTZs

China has announced another 24 cities as pilot zones for cross-border e-commerce to boost exports in December 2019 according to a statement released by the

Case study: selling luxury product through Taobao live broadcast

Feiyu Live Broadcast Competition in categories such as clothing, jewelry, and makeup is stiff in Taobao’s live streaming ecosystem and there are still opportunities in

China annual consumer retail sales up 8% in Nov 2019

Total consumer goods retail sales in China reached 3,809.4 billion yuan (US$545.35 bn) in November 2019, increasing by 8.0% year-on-year (nominal growth rate. Real growth

Tencent Live adds Product Window to WeChat live broadcasting

Tencent Live launched a new feature Product Window that merchants can use to display added products to the live broadcasting sessions. Merchants can also associate

Mobile shopping users and top e-commerce apps in China in Q3 2019

China’s online shopping users reached 370 million on desktop and over 1 billion unique mobile devices in September 2019. They use an average of 2.22

Kuaishou live broadcast DAU exceeded 100 million in 2019

Kuaishou, also known as Kwai, announced last week its daily active live broadcasting users exceeded 100 million. 56% of Kuaishou anchors are post-90s.

China’s year-end shopping festival Double 12 is on

Following Double 11 2019, the last major shopping festival is Double 12. Alibaba’s Taobao of Double 12 will focus on live broadcasting; everyone is the

CIW eBooks

eBook: Small Town Youth, New Growth Engine in China

The average monthly disposable income of new small-town youths from China’s lower-tier cities is 3,730 yuan, compared with 5,401 yuan of young people in China’s

eBook: China E-Commerce Factories

E-commerce factory is the collaboration of the manufacturing industry and the internet. Under the circumstances of retail sector being depressed while the traffic of e-commerce