#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on April 12]

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on April 12] 1. Liu Qiangdong: JD Convenience Stores are planned to open 1,000 daily by the end of this year; 2. Tmall announced its luxury goods strategy to serve 1000 new middle class in the next three years; 3. China Unicom issued a notice to officially start closing the 2G network; 4. Wuxi Industrial and Commercial Bureau interviewed Ele.me and other three takeaway platforms: suspected of unfair competition; 5. Weishi suspended the comment function: There is a large amount of irrelevant content in the comment area; 6. Wang Xing attended the Mobike All-Affiliate Conference and promised that Mobike would not lay off employees...

　　E-commerce newsletter

　　1. Liu Qiangdong: JD Convenience Stores are planned to open 1,000 daily by the end of this year

　　On the morning of April 12, at the 2018 China "Internet +" Digital Economy Summit held today, Liu Qiangdong, Chairman and CEO of JD Group, delivered a keynote speech. In his speech, Liu Qiangdong mentioned the goal of JD convenience store. A year ago, he announced that JD.com will open more than 1 million JD convenience stores nationwide in the next five years, half of which will be in rural areas, and every village must have them. Today, Liu Qiangdong said again that as of last week, JD convenience stores will open 1,000 to 1,200 per week, with 50,000 applications per day. The goal is to open 1,000 stores per day by the end of this year. (Source: Sina Technology)

　　2. Tmall announced a luxury product strategy to serve 100 million new middle-class products in the next three years

　　On April 11, more than 70 global high-end luxury brands executives including tod's, Burberry, Ralph Lauren and Zenith gathered in Shanghai to participate in the Luxury Pavilion brand preview meeting held by Tmall. At the meeting, Tmall announced its "small goals" in the luxury goods field in the next three years: it will take three years to build a communication bridge between luxury brands and new generation consumers born in the 1990s and 2000s, and serve 100 million new middle class. (Source: Lianshang.com)

Tmall announces luxury goods strategy to serve 100 million new middle-class products in the next three years

　　3. Sam's entry into JD.com's high-end fresh products will be delivered in one hour

　　On April 11, PR News Agency reported that Sam's Member Store (hereinafter referred to as Sam) reached an in-depth cooperation with JD.com. Sam launched JD.com's Home in Shenzhen, and selected more than 1,000 products, covering almost all fresh food categories. Shenzhen is the first to go online and will soon cover key cities across the country. (Source: Yibang Power)

　　Internet news

　　4. China Unicom issued an announcement to officially start closing the 2G network

　　On April 12, an announcement from China Unicom showed that a provincial company in China Unicom was carrying out 2G base station frequency reduction and service withdrawal and switch, and planned to shut down 101 low-service base stations. In fact, similar actions have also been made in other provinces. In order to develop 4G, China Unicom has begun to accelerate its withdrawal of 2G network. China Mobile has also shut down 3G networks in some regions. (Source: IT Home)

　　5. Wuxi Industrial and Commercial Bureau interviews Ele.me and other three takeaway platforms: suspected of unfair competition

　　On the morning of April 11, yesterday, Didi Takeout and Meituan Takeout announced that their platform won the first place in Wuxi's takeout market share, which triggered a war of words. According to media reports today, due to unfair competition and monopoly business activities, the Wuxi Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce summoned three takeaway operators, Meituan, Ele.me and Didi Takeaway. (Source: Pengpai)

Wuxi Industrial and Commercial Bureau interviews Ele.me and other three takeaway platforms

　　6. Ma Huateng: Tencent is connecting advertisements for Moments, mini programs, and public accounts

　　On the morning of April 12, at the 2018 China "Internet +" Digital Economy Summit held today, Tencent Chairman and CEO Ma Huateng delivered a speech. Ma Huateng mentioned that in the past, brand owners used traditional methods to do marketing, but the efficiency was not high. In the future, they hoped to use digital methods to help advertisers. Tencent is now connecting the ads of Moments, mini programs, and public account, which are linked together to make them generate value, and the specific plans are still being explored. (Source: Chuangyebang)

　　7. Weishi pauses the comment function: There is a lot of irrelevant content in the comment area

　　On April 12, Weishi announced that due to the recent large amount of irrelevant content in the comment area, the comment function will be suspended to ensure the user's trial experience. The day before, all comments on TikTou's short video product Douyin, a subsidiary of Toutiao, also disappeared. In this regard, Douyin said that this move is to fully upgrade the system. During this period, the live broadcast function and comments will be suspended and will be activated again after the upgrade. Earlier, it was reported that Tencent intends to use subsidies to support Weishi in order to snipe Douyin. In early April, Weishi made a major update. According to the version upgrade record, Weishi has launched several new functions and opened up the QQ Music genuine music library. Recently, relevant departments have increased their supervision of applications such as video and information. (Source: The Paper)

　　8. Didi Takeout says that opening cities across the country may enter nine cities soon

　　The 9 posters released by Didi Takeout’s official Weibo today said that the whole country is about to open, and the previous rumors may be true.

　　The top copy on the top of the poster is "No need to come to Wuxi, we go find you, Didi Takeout is about to open the city nationwide." Below each poster are special foods from various places. (Source: Yibang Power Network)

　　9. Wang Xing attended the Mobike All-Association and promised that Mobike would not lay off employees

　　On the evening of April 11, a Mobike employee who showed that he was certified as a real-name broke the news on Maimai that afternoon, Mobike held a full-staff meeting. Not only Wang Xiaofeng, Hu Weiwei, Xia Yiping and other three founders attended, but Meituan founder Wang Xing also appeared at the meeting. Subsequently, a Mobike employee confirmed the news to 36Kr and said that this was the first time that the company held a full-staff meeting after Mobike officially announced it was acquired by Meituan on April 4, and some employees joined in the form of video. Wang Xing promised at yesterday's general meeting that the current employees will not be moved and Mobike will not lay off employees. (Source: 36kr)

　　Cross-border e-commerce

　　10. Amazon wants to acquire Clicky.pk to open up the Pakistani market

　　If e-commerce giant Amazon successfully acquires shares in the Pakistani portal Clicky.pk, Indian sellers on Amazon will have more Pakistani customers.

　　In 2016, Dubai e-commerce platform Souq invested in Clicky.pk. In 2017, after Amazon acquired Souq, it owned 33% of Clicky.pk. Relevant people said, "If Amazon and Clicky.pk can be negotiated, Indian sellers can expand their market in Pakistan, and the sales of goods will pass through Dubai." (Source: Hugo.com)

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