China B2B e-commerce market overview in H1 2018, led by Alibaba, HC360
The transactions and revenues of China's B2B e-commerce totaled US$1.63 trillion and US$3.71 billion in the first half of 2018, respectively. Alibaba.com, HC360.com, and Cogobuy were top three leading...
View ArticleChina cross-border e-commerce market overview H1 2018
Transactions of China's cross-border e-commerce exceeded US$654 billion in H1 2018. The export business accounted for 77.1% while B2B took 84.6% in shares by transactions. Transactions of cross-border...
View ArticleChina online retail exceeded US$593 bn in H1 2018, led by Tmall & JD
The transactions of the online retail market in China totaled US$593.18 bn in H1 2018, representing 22.7% of total retail sales. Meanwhile, the mobile shopping market in China saw US$397.83 trillion...
View ArticleChinese outbound tourism insights in H1 2018
Chinese outbound tourists went on 71.31 million person-trips in the first half of 2018 (H1 2018), up by 15% over last year. This market is expected to maintain its double-digit growth in the whole...
View ArticleChinese startup WeCode to seize opportunity of programming for children
From essential-qualities oriented education to K12 education system, coding education is taking off across China. Nowadays, China has placed coding in the national school curriculums and 4-to-12...
View Article5 trends in lower-tier Chinese cities for maternal & baby market
There are 3.94 million babies born in 2017, more than that in the whole U.S. 60% of babies younger than 3 years are living in lower-tier cities and 49% of maternal and baby product sales are from...
View ArticleSecret of Taobao Global: turning individual overseas Chinese to online...
One afternoon of a working day, a jewelry buyer Xiaotian went on a live broadcast in Hong Kong, calling the customer "Baby", tried on and showing her jewelry in front of the screen: "Look here baby, I...
View ArticleAlipay saw Golden Week overseas in-store transactions more than doubled in 2018
Alipay announced the overseas transaction summary for this year’s Golden Week (October 1-7). It processed 2.2 times as many overseas in-store transactions during this year’s holiday compared to last...
View ArticleChinese purchase behavior saw blurring gender lines
In consumption, the gender lines are blurring these days. More female consumers in China like digital products and outdoor fitness equipment while more male tend to favor skincare and healthcare...
View ArticleChinese spent 31% more time on sports & fitness mobile apps in 2018
Summer was the peak season for body-building with 104.24 million active users using sports & fitness mobile apps in China. On average, a user used sports & fitness apps 3.05 times a day and...
View ArticleChina public cloud (IaaS) to reach US$6.21 bn in 2018; Amazon fastest growth
The growth momentum of China’s public cloud IaaS market remains strong in recent years. This market saw a skyrocketing rise of 157.2% with transactions exceeding 18.44 billion yuan (US$2.68 bn) in...
View ArticleChina Golden Week tourism grew by 9% in 2018
China’s domestic tourism received a total of 726 million person-trips, an increase of 9.43% year-on-year during the National Day Holiday 2018 (hereinafter referred to as Golden Week). That brought...
View ArticleChinese consumer needs to grow around health, instant satisfaction, and...
With Chinese consumers entering a new era of shopping, the consumer needs in the near future would grow around three themes: health, instant satisfaction, and personalization. Recently in China, there...
View ArticleChina National Day golden week retail sales hit US$202 bn in 2018
Total sales of retail and food & beverage enterprises in China amounted to 1.4 trillion yuan (US$202.16 bn). The average daily sales increased by 9.5% year-on-year during the week-long (October...
View ArticleTop out-of-home advertising buyers in China July 2018
Traditional out-of-home advertising showed a downtrend in spending in China. Both real estate and construction industry reduced out-of-home ad spending by 37.1% year-on-year. Xiaomi, Ele.me, KFC, and...
View ArticleHow China’s millennials manage their finance
In China, the generation born in the 1980s (referred to as "Post-80s") are facing growing responsibilities. They are now dually burdened with caring for young children and elderly parents. 94.9% of...
View ArticleChina search engine market to reach US$20 bn in 2018
There are 656.88 million search engine users in China as of June 2018, 637.4 million among which were using search engine via mobile devices. China's search engine market is expected to reach US$20...
View ArticleChina online advertising market forecast 2018-2020
Search ads market in China is losing its share while e-commerce ads account for 32% of total. News feed ads are gaining its popularity facing the slowed growth of display ads in China. Also find out...
View ArticleChina online ads market to exceed US$70B in 2018; mobile over 77%
China ad market generated 700 billion yuan (US$101.25 bn) in revenues with online advertising accounting for around 50%. The mobile advertising was a 254.96 billion yuan (US$36.88 bn) market in 2017,...
View ArticleAlibaba Taobao’s marketing strategy for Double 11 in 2018
The 1.6 million Taobao content creators want to tell you a different story about the 15-year-old Taobao from their perspective. To begin with, they have generated over 3 billion yuan income for the...
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