Introduction: The Illusion of Endless Growth For years, the world has looked at China’s e-commerce market as an unstoppable force, a high-tech juggernaut of relentless innovation and staggering growth. But behind the headline-grabbing sales festivals and eye-watering transaction volumes, a more complex and troubling story of stagnation, burnout, and structural crisis is unfolding. According to industry insiders, the once-vibrant ecosystem is showing signs of deep…
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More European Consumers falling in Love with China’s Overseas Shopping
The latest data shows that the market size of European cross-border e-commerce in 2021 will exceed 171 billion euros, an increase of 36.5% over the previous year. Personalized marketing, online transactions, contactless distribution… The advantages of e-commerce have become more prominent during the epidemic prevention and control period. A survey of 25 European countries by Belgian International Post found that consumers in 24 countries ranked…
Tmall Global Attracting More Global Brands Joining In
Since 2020, Tmall Global launched three major strategies: accelerating the entry of overseas brands, building an international business incubation center, and launching imported flagship stores. Tmall International strove to incubate 1,000 companies this year, and fully promote the five-year US$200 billion import strategy. Affected by the global pandemic, China’s import market has experienced short-term fluctuations but long-term improvements. Many new categories and new products have…
Tmall International Margin “Unblocked” for The First Time
International businesses welcome the good news of cost reduction and efficiency improvement. On July 29, Tmall International released three new service measures to help international brands enter the Chinese market with lower cost and higher efficiency. The three major services include the availability of merchant deposits, the opening of new merchants’ quick entry channels, and the establishment of merchant entry service centers. Under the global…
The Healthy Development of China’s Cross-border e-Commerce
Cross-border e-commerce is becoming a new development trend in international trade. According to China Customs statistics, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export volume reached CNY 1.69 trillion in 2020, an increase of 31.1%. Among them, exports increased by 40.1% and imports increased by 16.5%, much higher than the growth rate of China’s foreign trade. In the past five years, China’s cross-border e-commerce import and export…