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 spent 20.17 minutes on it in June 2018. Body-building was more appealing to users from top-tier cities and those with mid-level to high purchasing […]
Chinese 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 products. It’s trending among young consumers in China based on sales data from JD.com and Vipshop. Top Cosmetic & Skincare Products by Vipshop male buyers Proportion […]
Alipay 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 year. Top destinations by transaction volume are Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan.
Secret of Taobao Global: turning individual overseas Chinese to online celebrities
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 am now in the studio of President Fang in Central, this is the newly designed necklace. Shall I […]
Chinese 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 year-olds are required to learn computer programming.
Chinese 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 year of 2018. Thailand, Japan, Vietnam are among the most visited overseas destinations. Top domestic sources Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou retained […]
China 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 transactions. Tmall, Jingdong, and Pinduoduo led the B2C online retail market.
China 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 e-commerce totaled 4.5 trillion yuan (US$654.08 bn) in the first half of 2018 (H1 2018), up by 25% year-on-year. The export business accounted for 77.1% of the total cross-border […]
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 B2B platforms. The transactions of B2B e-commerce reached 11.2 trillion yuan (US$1.63 trillion) in the first half of 2018, with an increase of 14.2% compared with 9.8 […]
China mobile e-commerce users overview in H1 2018
The number of mobile e-commerce users in China totaled 473 million in 2017, an increase of 13.2%. It is expected to reach 512 million by the end of 2018. Tencent social ads were the top choice for 64.8% of e-commerce apps advertising, Toutiao 29.5%, and Zhihu 19.3%. Mobile e-commerce users are getting younger with 43.3% […]
Top lifestyle mobile apps in China in Q2 2018
Kugou music ranked on top in China’s mobile music apps market in Q2 2018; Tencent News and Toutiao on top for news apps; and, Meituan in the local lifestyle category. Also, check out top apps in job hunting, mobile reading, and audios. In June 2018, the top 10 secondhand car trading apps all saw negative […]
China’s top mobile video apps in Q2 2018
China’s online video market remains dominated by iQiyi, Tencent Video, and Youku. Short Video apps presented far stronger growth momentum in monthly active users than live streaming mobile apps in China’s Q2 mobile apps market. In June 2018, users totally spent 726.7 billion minutes in using short video apps, 4.7 times higher than 127.2 billion […]
Top travel & transportation mobile apps in China in Q2 2018
Within the online travel market, Ctrip and Qunar were the two biggest players while Fliggy was a distant third. In June 2018, Ctrip had 10.94 million DAU, with penetration rate at 16.1%. While both Qunar (9.22 million) and Alibaba-affiliated Fliggy (2.21 million) saw declines in DAU. WeChat Mini-Programs might be the next opportunity for some […]
Top social networking mobile apps in China in Q2 2018, led by WeChat, QQ, Weibo
WeChat (86%), QQ (70.1%), and Weibo (35.8%) were the top three mobile social networking apps by penetration rates in China. Both WeChat and QQ saw a negative growth in penetration in June 2018 while Weibo performed well with penetration growth of 2.2%. In June 2018, the average DAU of WeChat reached 612 million, an increase of […]
China cross-border e-commerce rebound with US$14.74 bn in Q2 2018
China’s cross-border import retail e-commerce bounced back to 100.52 billion yuan (US$14.74 bn) in Q2 2018 with a growth rate of 22.4%. In the B2C segment, Tmall Global retained top spot with a market share of 29.1%, followed by NetEase Kaola, JD Worldwide, and Amazon Global. The 6.18 mid-year big online shopping promotion in China all […]