Founded in 2018, Shihuituan is a gourmet community e-commerce service platform. It focuses on fruits and vegetables as well as household items targeting the community as the entry point.
Chinese travel bloggers earns by playing
Women in China accounted for more than 63% of the total number of travel bloggers. And travel bloggers traveled more than twice a month on average; 89% of travel bloggers have excellent travel guide writing skills and 79.1% of them are familiar with photography, according to a Fliggy report. The majority of travel bloggers are […]
Top short video apps compared: Tik Tok vs. Kwai – Part 1 Platforms
As two representative platforms of the short video market in China, Kwai (Kuaishou) and Tik Tok have always been the focus of attention and discussion in the industry. In people’s established view, Kwai and Tik Tok are different as Kwai is more bound with the mass while Tik Tok maintains more taste; while Kwai focuses […]
Introduction to Xiaomi’s e-commerce platform Youpin
Youpin is where Xiaomi’s aspirations for extending the boundaries of its core business lies. Its product categories have been extended from core products smartphone and TV to ecological chain companies – air purifier and self-balancing scooters kind of products. Now, it has become an independent quality e-commerce platform selling a variety of products including mattress […]
Mid-year shopping war is on; Tmall half day GMV broke last year full-day record
Tmall 618 Campaign On 1st of June, Tmall 618 mid-year shopping festival reached its first peak. Within less than one hour, from midnight to 1:00 a.m., the gross merchandise volume (GMV) exceeded that of the first 10 hours of the previous year. 618 is the largest mid-year online (and now also offline) shopping campaign in […]
China tourism & online travel booking market overview 2019
China residents took 149.72 million outbound trips in 2018. The per-capita expenditure on the consumption of education, cultural, and entertainment products accounted for 11% of per-capita consumption expenditure. Tourism market overview 2018 China recorded a total of 5.54 billion domestic person-trips in 2018, up 10.8% from 2017, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. […]
Tmall & JD accounted over 80% of B2C e-commerce in China
China’s online shopping market expects to see total transactions of US$1.44 trillion by 2019. The market share of B2C e-commerce dropped to 56.2%, with Tmall and JD.com accounting for over 80% of the total. The value of online shopping transactions in China totaled 8 trillion yuan (US$1.19 trillion) in 2018, an increase of 28.3% year-on-year. […]
80% of Chinese consumers’ unplanned shopping comes from social e-commerce
Chinese social e-commerce companies have been growing at a compound annual growth rate of 100.6%. Their penetration rate has increased to 11.9%. 80% of internet shoppers are using social e-commerce channels. The penetration rate of group shopping consumers has reached the highest at 57%. Compared with the traditional model, the essence of social e-commerce is […]
China internet economy to exceed US$893 billion by 2020
China’s internet economy generated nearly 3.7 trillion yuan (US$551 bn) in revenues in 2017, an increase of 42.5% year-on-year. This market has rebound back from 2016’s cooling and is projected to exceed 5.9 trillion yuan (US$893 bn) by 2020. In the next three years, the growth is estimated to keep steady at around 20%. The […]
China mobile banking overview
Monthly unique devices of mobile banking reached 326 million units in China, an increase of 10.9% year-on-year. China Construction Bank led this market with 74 million units monthly unique devices. Roughly 80% of users only installed one comprehensive financial management app.
Ctrip and Qunar saw 1.69 million overlapping users during holiday
Monthly unique devices of online travel platforms dropped to 199 million last December, which reached as high as 216 million last October. Most users who are used to install one app only chose to compare information and prices on different apps during peak travel season. Market penetration of online travel platforms was 14.7% with 199 […]
Top online video apps in Dec 2018
Online penetration in video entertainment grew by 4.2% to 71.3% in December. On average, 205.6 million users watched videos online daily. Tencent Video, iQiyi, and Youku were the top three players in this market.
China’s short video apps penetration up 76.7%
The short video has penetrated into 62.2% of Chinese internet users with an average DAUs of 313.2 million as of December 2018. Tik Tok retained its top position, followed by Kuaishou. Market penetration of short video kept growing momentum in the past year and reached 62.2%, an increase of 76.7% year-on-year. The average DAUs was […]
Top travel mobile apps in China in 2018
Online penetration in tourism reached 30.2% in December, a slight increase from 27% a year ago. Ctrip ranked top with a penetration of 15.8%, followed by Qunar (11.3%) and Fliggy (4.3%). Market penetration of online travel was 30.2% in December, an increase of 10.6% year-on-year. Its average DAU was 21.899 million, showing a slight decline […]
Top social media mobile apps in China in 2018
Social networking has been in part of life for 87.2% of internet users in China with WeChat being the most widely used one. Market penetration of social networking reached 87.2% in December 2018. During the same period, its daily active users (DAUs) totaled 731.5 million. 85.7% of internet users used WeChat, the most widely used […]