LETTERS

After reading"Ma Yun’s Internet World,"I better understand why the Chinese celebrate 11 November and how it becomes an e-commerce party.Alibaba is China’s largest online retailer,with hundreds of millions of users,which provides business platforms for millions of online shops,taking up 80 percent of China’s online shopping market share.In 2013,Alipay,the company’s smartphonebased payment platform,had a turnover more than three times that     

Harvardon Tour

正Visiting international students explore ChinaModern metropolises and ancient capitals,the world’s largest online shopping platform and a renowned poverty alleviation project,an independent organization and a series of government departments,beautiful spring scenes in the south and the haze in     

Delivering the Goods

<正>Express delivery,an indispensable part of the daily life of many Chinese,has developed as an industry alongside the emergence and boom of online shopping.Data from the State Post Bureau show that the business volume of China’s express delivery industry reached 31.28 billion parcels in 2016 while its revenue totaled nearly 400 billion yuan($58.06 billion).A crucial component of China’s modern     

Singles’ Day Shopping Spree

正The world may have observed an online shopping frenzy on November 11 in China,similar to America’s Black Friday,but already much larger.The growth in online purchases over the last few years on the Singles’Day(11.11)has been phenomenal.The mega-discount shopping activity,largely based on e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Tmal.com and Taobao.com,makes it possible for global commodities and logistics to move across the planet through electronic platforms.     

The E-learning Miracle

正AUGUST marks the first anniversary of xue.taobao.com,an online education platform along the lines of Taobao(the Chinese online shopping website equivalent to eBay and Amazon).Nipping at its heels,having appeared last November,is Google’s new product Helpout,a C2C(consumer-to-consumer)e-learning platform.This successive branching out of Internet giants into the e-learning marketplace will undoubtedly have a posi-     

Foreign Companies Want to Be Single,Too

<正>China's online shopping frenzy goes global In what is likely the most expensive television advertisement for Singles Day since the shopping festival was founded in 2009,American actor Kevin Spacey—appearing as his character U.S.President Frank Underwood from House of Cards—wished the audience a happy Singles Day and listed the number of items he wanted to buy to celebrate.Singles Day,or Double 11,falls on November 11 every year and is China’s equiva-     

A Reality Check For Alibaba

<正>A report issued by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce(SAIC)on January 23 showed that Alibaba-owned Taobao.com,China’s largest consumer-toconsumer platform,exhibited the worst performance of the six online shopping sites examined.A quality check conducted between August and October last year showed that only 37.25 percent of the sampled goods from the platform were authentic.     

Lost in Translation

正There are a lot of online shopping platforms across the globe,but one popular site that caught my attention after coming to C hina from Ghana is Taobao.China’s largest online shopping platform,Taobao is known for being very userfriendly,especially if you can read Chinese characters.I love their services as they are committed to making it a pleasurable experience for the shopper.If you cannot speak Chinese,or you have diffi culties with Taobao’s English transla-     

Fighting Fires

WITH a history of 580 years, Beijing’s Dazhalan is one of the oldest shopping areas in the city. Some of the capital’s longest-established brands, like Ruifuxiang silk, Neiliansheng shoes and Rongbaozhai Gallery, are based there. But with its nar-     

Just a Click Away

Most Chinese were unfamiliar with the term electronic commerce 10 or even five years ago. Only a small number of youngpeople were interested in the brand-new concepts of online shopping, opening online shops and paying online back then. Today,     

A SINGULAR SALES SPECTACLE

正Singles’Day poses a shift in e-commerce development in China Pocketbooks exploded once again on November 11,China’s Singles’Day.Despite the fact that the festival celebrates single people,it has now become one of the world’s largest online shopping extravaganzas.Shi Yang,a manager at a private firm in Beijing,spent more than 6,000 yuan($873)—equivalent to his wife’s monthly salary—on that day.     

Transnational E-Commerce Stabilizes Global Trade

Online shopping has become an important part of life during lockdowns to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).A range of ecommerce platforms have made it possible for people to get whatever they need from home,and this shopping model has contributed to China’s consumption growth significantly.     

Women''s Status on the Rise

Chinese women are engaged in social and economic development more than ever beforeo n the afternoon of March 8, Beijing’s department stores and shopping malls were crowded with women on     

Forum on cooperation between Chinese and Pakistan provinces and cities a success

<正>On Dec 9, the 2021 Forum on Cooperation between China and Pakistan Friendship Provinces and Cities was successfully held at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, online and offline simultaneously. The forum was co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Pakistan embassy in China. Zhang Chunxian, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China,     

Digital Is Forever

<正>Since the dawn of the Internet age,the world’s Web users have been acquiring an ever-expanding pile of online assets.These online assets,which include e-mail accounts,blogs,videogame avatars and profiles in social media,are stored in hardware devices and servers around the world.     

Cleaning Up Cyberspace

On Actions taken to curb false rumors online On August 25,Beijing police released a statement saying that journalist Liu Hu had been detained on allegations of fabrication and dissemination of false rumors online.Liu works for New Express,a local newspaper published in Guangzhou in south China’s Guangdong Province.The police didn’t release any further details other than stating that the case was currently under investigation.On the same day,Zhou Lubao,a blogger,was arrested in east China’s Jiangsu Province for an alleged extortion linked to the spreading of misinformation online.Zhou is suspected of posting more than 15,000 items of misinformation online within the last year.The Ministry of Public Security said that Zhou had blackmailed more than 20 separate entities and individuals.     

‘Virtuous’ Reality

Government and industry join forces to combat Internet addiction and inappropriate content in online gaming According to figures from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,China’s online gaming population had reached 330 million as of June 2012. In other words,     

Clicks and Mortar

正Competition is giving way to harmony between physical and online stores It’s lunchtime and streams of people stroll around Go Market,a convenience store in Beijing’s Chaoyang District,where import snacks and healthy beverages are sold to the     

HEAD IN THE CLOUD

When the severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS)virus struck 17 years ago,China was inching its way toward the information era.Alibaba was building the online shopping platform Taobao and developing its payment service Alipay,and the number of registered users of Tencents instant messaging service QQ had just exceeded 100 million.     

Virtual Reality On the Fast Track

正The promise of virtual reality attracts interest from investors and dreamers alike By Yuan YuanThe boom of online shopping has shifted the consumption habits of tens of millions of people over the past decade or so,from going to traditional brick-and-mortar stores to browsing on computers or smart-