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WeChat testing Nearby Restaurants feature with top level entry path
WeChat is testing a new feature allowing users to find nearby restaurants according to Yiou News. This feature locates on the top level menu, in parallel with WeChat Moments, People Nearby,...
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China retail trend 2019; to hit US$6.77 trillion, fueled by e-commerce and...
China's retail market is estimated to hit US$6.77 trillion by 2019 with e-commerce representing 14.46% of this market. The population of post-80s and post-90s totaled nearly 411 million, more than...
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Quick Look: Marketing in China 2019
The number of China internet users exceeded 801 million with a penetration rate of 57.7% according to the latest data from CNNIC. Live broadcasting, short videos, and personalized content will...
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Chinese post-95s spent 80% more buying overseas in 2018
Post-90s was the main force of Chinese Haitao users while post-80s held the strongest per capita consumption power. Surprisingly, post-95s attracted extensive attention as its expenditure on overseas...
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China 3rd-party mobile payment hit US$6.4 trillion in Q3 2018, led by Alipay...
China’s third-party mobile payment grew by 11.52% to 43.8 trillion yuan (US$6.39T) in Q3 2018. Alipay (53.71%) and Tencent Finance (38.82%) combined accounted for 92.53%, leaving a small space for...
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China online payment market down by 2.58% in Q3 2018
The third-party internet payment market in China showed no signs of picking up after its slump in Q2, which had been down from 6.96 trillion yuan (US$1.02T) in Q1 to just 6.54 trillion yuan...
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China non-financial institutes handled US$8 trillion transactions in Q3 2018
The third-party comprehensive payment market picked up in Q3 after its sluggish start this year, which reached 54.94 trillion yuan (US$8.01T) with a growth of 7.99% quarter-on-quarter. Alipay, Tencent...
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Secrets of wining low-tier city youth in China for FMCG brands
Low-tier city consumers are an increasingly important source of growth for the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. For many brands, they are the make-or-break factor for their success in...
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WeChat Year in Review 2018
WeChat sees 1.08 billion monthly active users in 2018, 63 million of which are senior citizens aged 55 years old and above. On average, WeChat users sent 45 billion messages and make 410 million...
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How Chinese consumers respond to price discrimination
Some Chinese tech companies are utilizing big data and deploy price discrimination to charge differently on different users. That is mainly demonstrated in three aspects: different prices for iOS and...
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New e-commerce regulations in China you should be aware in 2019
Individual agents (Daigou), who frequently promote products on WeChat Moment or sell products in live streaming and short videos, all share a new name “e-commerce business operators” as Taobao and...
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China online travel agency (OTA) market shares in Q3 2018
The online travel market in China grew by 9.3% to US$39.25 billion in Q3 2018, driven by the summer vacation and the mid-autumn festival holiday. 68.6% of transactions are generated from online...
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China’s top mobile apps in social media, news, and paid knowledge in Q3 2018
Overall, the market penetration of social networking reached 99.7% in September 2018, with the average daily active users of hitting 730 million. WeChat, QQ, and Weibo are the top 3. Tencent News and...
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Alibaba’s Tmall to incubate 100 new products for 10 billion yuan GMV in 2019
It is becoming trendy and vital for brands to make products debut on Alibaba's B2C e-commerce platform Tmall. Tmall also makes great efforts to help brands speed up the average product incubation...
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Top mobile video apps in China Sep 2018, led by Tencent Video, Tik Tok, Kwai
Market penetration of online video reached 80.4%, a 5.8% increase year-on-year. While the average daily active users decreased to 210 million. Both Tencent Video (116 million) and Tik Tok (118.7...
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Xiaomi sold 100 million power banks as of Jan 2019
Xiaomi claimed to reach 100 million units of Mi power banks sales as of January 8, 2019 since its 1st generation became available in 2013. Xiaomi also took the opportunity to launch the latest...
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China retail market overview 2018; rural areas grew by 10.1%, online retail...
In the whole year of 2018, the total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 38,098.7 billion yuan (US$5,620.13 billion), up by 9.0% year-on-year (nominal growth rate), according to the National...
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China’s GDP growth 2018; consumption expenditure contributed 76.2%
In the whole year of 2018, the gross domestic product (GDP) of China totaled 90,030.9 billion yuan (US$13,280.9 billion), a year-on-year increase of 6.6% at comparable prices, according to the...
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China’s population growth and birth rate reached a shocking low in 2018
By the end of 2018, the total population of mainland China was 1,395.38 million (including the population of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and servicemen in CPLA and excluding...
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China’s online healthcare market to exceed 20 billion yuan in 2019
China’s online healthcare market is estimated to reach 17.7 billion yuan (US$2.61bn) with a YoY growth of 17.2% in 2018 and grow to 20.4 billion yuan (US$3bn) by 2019 according to data from iResearch....
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