New Retail: Clicks Plus Bricks Alibaba moves to integrate the online marketplace with physical stores

<正>Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to become the major shareholder of department store titan Intime Retail once it closes a deal worth $2.6 billion to acquire a 74-percent stake in the company.Intime Retail is a Beijingbased shopping mall chain with more than 30 outlets throughout China.The acquisition was announced on January 10."Intime is another expansion for Alibaba into brick-and-mortar     

New Bricks in the Wall

Whenever a newcomer enters the classroom, he points at the wall. "Look at that!" says Li Shunye, indicating a picture of something that looks a bit like a pink furry fox, only with an oversized tail. "It's a squirrel," says the 9-year-old. "I made it."     

New Retail Era

<正>China is shaping the future of e-commerce,global consumption and supply chains On October 19,Alibaba Group officially launched its Global Shopping Festival with the announcement of three weeks’ worth of special events,sales,and activities that will culminate with the 24-hour consumption frenzy on November 11,dubbed "Singles Day." This year’s festival will be the biggest,in terms of gross merchandise value,the number of companies participating and the     

New Retail Therapy

With Suning.com, one of China’s leading retailers, announcing it was purchasing a controlling stake in French retailer Carrefour’s business in China, retail in China gets a fresh impetus. Suning now joins the two tech giants Alibaba and Tencent in turning to fastmoving consumer goods(FMCG) businesses for growth.     

Business That Clicks

Bom in 1991, Cui Qisong, who comes from Lizhuang Town, Huimin County o f east China’s Shandong Province, became a migrant worker after graduation from high school. In 2015, he found that his neighbor was doing business online. He joined the trend and started selling soil collected from farms by the Yellow River, which is considered to be perfect for cultivating flowers. This odd product turned him into a millionaire within just three years.     

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     

价值正差:利益本质新探

利益是社会理论的核心概念之一。对于何为利益的本质,研究者认识不一,但基本都是围绕需要及其满足来界定。这类定义下的利益可以归结为效用。但效用只能解释诸如马克思、韦伯等认同的利益的动力功能而不能解释孟德斯鸠提出的阻力功能;另外并非所有效用都涉及利益。效用说的缺陷源于对效用获取途径的忽略。以是否付出代价才能获得为界,效用可分为价成效用和自成效用。效用和代价都只是价值构成要素,前者为正后者为负。利益是通过价值要素的比较、计算,人所获得的价值正差。价值正差形成动力,价值负差形成阻力。这一定义具有观念史、词源语义分析的支持,在经验领域也有很强的解释力。     

Laying Bricks For the Future

After breakfast, Li Tianchao, a 6-year-old boy, and his older sister will walk a few hundred meters to Xiaoxian Primary School, where he attends the affiliated kindergarten. Along the way, he will meet his classmates popping out from the old wooden houses scattered along the mountain road.     

Retail Employment Trends

<正>Robert Walters, one of the world’s leading professional specialist recruitment consultancies, has recently released a report on employment opportunities in China’s consumer goods retail industry in the first half of this year. Excerpts follow:     

The Art of Bricks and Tile Ends

THE Qin Dynasty （221-206 B.C.） had four imperial polymath councilors who were highly revered by the imperial court for their intelligence and resourcefulness. Since they would not go along with Emperor Qinshihuang＇s tyranny, they re- signed together and lived a secluded life on Shangluo Mountain （Shang Moun-tain）. The hair on all their heads turned white-gray, earning them the collective epithet the ＂Four White-haired Hermits.＂     

Chinese Consumers Go for Bricks and Mortar

In April 1980 Deng Xiaoping said, "Policies on housing construction and allocation in cities should be examined. Urbanites may purchase and build their own apartments. Not only new apartments may be sold, old ones may be too....." These were the words that sparked off China's housing reforms. The Chinese government has since concentrated on creating measures that will     

Internet Plus Ride-Hailing

正Car-hailing apps are thriving in China.According to Chinese Internet research institution CNIT,the U.S.ride-hailing company Uber and its Chinese counterparts Didi Chuxing,Yidao Yongche and Shenzhou Special Car Service are the four largest ridehailing companies in China.Apple Inc.’s recent$1-billion investment in Didi has far-reaching implications.On one hand,Apple’s investment will drive     

More on the Art of Bricks and Tile

THOUGH bricks and tiles are ordinary building materials judged by today＇s standards,centuries ago commoners mostly built their houses with sun-dried adobes and thatch. Back then, bricks and tiles implied wealth and dignity, in much the same way as marble, steel and glass do today. This was particularly true of bricks and tiles featuring ornamental designs for imperial use. The most representative of these aristocratic building blocks were the bricks and tiles of the Qin and Hart dynasties. These were later followed by other ornamental brick carving techniques.     

抓住零售这个中心——对中国出版业的市场观察

北京大学出版社社长彭松建曾有个观点 ,说零售店是书业的中心。这个观点未见彭松建先生展开论述 ,或许这只是他作为业内人士的一种感觉。我认为这种感觉非常准确 ,非常到位。把这种感觉展开 ,可以概括地得出一个结论 :对于出版业来说 ,零售是市场的中心 ,市场是产业的中心。但是这种展开不是一种理论上的论证 ,我的展开也是一种感觉的展开 ,或者是一种更多的更强烈的感觉。我感觉到 :市场的实质是交换 ,交换的实质是满足需求 ;对于出版来说 ,零售是满足读者需要 ,实现交换的最佳也是唯一的途径 ;市场规律最终是通过零售市场表现出来 ,零售市…     

中国零售业:应对加入WTO的挑战

加入WTO,势必会有大批外资商业企业进入我国,这既繁荣了我国的商业,也给内资商业企业带来很大的竞争压力。我国零售企业应当直面这种竞争压力,勇敢地应对挑战。     

Internet Plus Sets the Trend

DURING the 2015 ‘Two Sessions,’deputies from Internet companies suggested that the‘Internet Plus’be included in the national action plan,"Tencent Chairman&CEO Ma Huateng,or Pony Ma,recalled."When Premier Li Keqiang     

Internet Plus Helps With Poverty Alleviation

The Chinese Government has been pushing forward its Internet Plus strategy in the form of promoting the combination of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and Internet of things together with modern manufacturing. It has also combined Internet Plus with poverty alleviation work.     

论我国零售企业的跨国经营战略

我国零售业,应利用所拥有的所有权优势、区位优势和内部化优势,选择正确的目标市场,发展规模经济,提供有特色的产品和服务,发展零售商自有品牌,建设良好的员工队伍,实施跨国经营战略。     

新经济:社会主义面临的新课题

社会主义正处于人类文明的历史长河中 ,它的发展和完善需要吸纳人类创造的一切文明成果。新经济的崛起不仅为社会主义的再发展提供了难得的历史机遇 ,而且也向未来社会主义提出了严峻挑战。如何抓住新的历史机遇 ,迎接挑战 ,充分利用新经济优势 ,将消极因素限制在最小的范围内 ,对于社会主义国家而言 ,这是一个难以解决的二元性矛盾。笔者认为 ,解决这一矛盾的关键在于加快政治体制改革 ,促使当代经济体制尽快摆脱传统政治体制的束缚 ,对未来社会主义发展进行科学定位。     

Beijing Hyundai:New Year,New Ambitions

WHILE the 2011 New Yearbells still reverberate,theeighth generation Sonatais being released by BeijingHyundai.The model,spectacularly successful worldwide,is expected to playa key role for the company’s development in 2011.The birth of the new sedancrowns nine years of backstage effortsthat began with the company’s establishment in 2002.