In 2021, the global Internet of Things (enterprise-level) expenditure reached $690.26 billion and is expected to reach $1.1 trillion in 2026, with a five-year (2022-2026) compound growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7%, according to data from IDC. Among them, China’s enterprise market will reach US$294 billion in 2026, with a compound growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2%. […]
How Watsons China’s online sales almost doubled in 2021
Watsons China’s total revenue in 2021 was HK$22.77 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%, the largest increase in the past five years. Watsons’ online sales increased by 94%, providing a strong impetus for the recovery of performance. Watsons’ long-term digital transformation has initially yielded fruitful results, which has become its biggest driving force to resist […]
China’s edge computing server market forecast 2022-2025
China’s edge computing server market reached US$3.31 billion in 2021, an increase of 23.9% over 2020. IDC predicts that from 2020 to 2025, the annual compound growth rate of the edge computing servers market in China will reach 22.2%, higher than 20.2% in the world. According to the deployment location, IDC classifies edge computing into […]
China tablet shipment up 8% in Q1 2022
In the first quarter of 2022, the shipment of China’s tablet market was about 6.76 million units, a year-on-year increase of 8.1%, according to the latest IDC data. With the adaptation to the new market situation, the global tablet computer shipment in the first quarter of 2022 decreased by 2.1% year-on-year to 39.13 million units. […]
China smart device market overview 2022
Smart Home is the largest smart device segment in China with over 185 million monthly active users, followed by Wearable, Smart Automobile, Smart Accessories, and Smart Health. Huawei Sports is the top smart device app with over 69.07 million MAU, followed by Xiaomi’s Mijia app (86 million MAU). Huawei has the largest smart device share […]
China online video, short video market overview 2022
China online video market reached 975 million MAU in 2021 Short video market saw 934 million users Douyin vs. Kuaishou With China’s online video platforms’ increasing production of original high-quality content and expansion of user preferences, the traffic has risen steadily, and the total number of online video users reached 974.71 million in 2021. The […]
China grocery e-commerce market to more than double by 2023
China’s grocery consumption retail market is estimated to reach 5469.7 billion yuan in 2021 and exceed 6817.3 billion yuan by 2025. Grocery Consumption by Categories Grocery retail market Online contributed to 14.6% of the total grocery retail market in China in 2020 from 8.8% in 2019. China grocery e-commerce market is estimated to exceed 1.2 […]
China senior internet users overview 2022
China senior internet users, who are above 50 years old, reached a record number of 275 million as of January 2022, according to data from QuestMobile. The seniors in China spend an average of 5.7 hours per day on the internet, down from 6.2 hours a year ago. Mobile phones, TV, and Desktop computers are […]
China online advertising market insights 2022
In 2022, 42.9% of advertisers in China expect to increase spending in digital marketing, 25 percentage points more than advertisers expect to reduce spending, according to CTR. China advertising market vs online ad market Advertisers of large enterprises with a budget of 500 million yuan or more are more confident in digital marketing spending. In […]
China’s tech unicorns overview 2022
The total number of Unicorn enterprises from China is 219 as of December 2021, an increase of 12 or 5.9% over the end of 2020. Beijing and Shanghai account for almost 60% of total technology unicorns in China. About 94% are concentrated in five regions; more than 60% of these enterprises are in five industries. […]
Chinese public-listed internet companies: U.S. vs. HK
Hong Kong lists almost 26% of Chinese public internet companies while the United States lists 43.2% and mainland China 31%. Nearly one-third of these companies are headquartered in Beijing. The number of Chinese Internet companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen, Hong Kong and the United States in 2021 were 48, 40 and 67 respectively. As […]
Metaverse trends in China 2022
Computing power, AI, network communication, and blockchain, as the indispensable infrastructure of the metaverse, play a vital role in the later stage development of the metaverse. IDC estimates that in 2022, participants in the development of metaverse infrastructure, mainly operators, infrastructure hardware companies, and top Internet companies, will lead the effort. The pace of relevant […]
American coffee brand “Blue Bottle Coffee” opened its first store in China
On February 25th, the American coffee brand “Blue Bottle Coffee” opened its first store in mainland China. On the opening day, fans lined up to buy; large number of customers waited outside the store and lined up for hundreds of meters. Even many scalpers were eyeing the business of reselling the coffee. That morning, the […]
6 trends of China’s digital economy innovation
In a relatively short time, China has become one of the world’s largest digital economies. Thanks to the support of nearly one billion internet users, China’s e-commerce sales rose to $1.7 trillion in 2020, accounting for about 30% of the country’s total retail sales. But scale is not the whole point of the story. Innovation […]
China enterprise SaaS market overview and forecast
After the market recovered in 2018 and the growth fell slightly in 2019, caused by the epidemic, the growth rate of SaaS market rose again in 2020. In 2020, the SaaS market in China reached 53.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.7%. At this stage, the capital market’s attitude towards SaaS is more rational, […]