#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 20]

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 20] 1. Jack Ma: I don’t think the trade war will start; 2. Tmall International cross-border physical store opens today; 3. Hermes plays WeChat limited-time experience store again; 4. FedEx's new route connects Guangzhou, China and Memphis, the United States; 5. Baidu cooperates with Meituan to deliver food without driverless food, and the first order may be landed in Xiong'an; 6. People's Daily comments on Didi Meituan’s online car-hailing war: Don’t just rely on burning money to grab the market...

　　E-commerce newsletter

　　1. Jack Ma: I don’t think the trade war will break out

　　On April 19, Alibaba Group and the Thai government announced a strategic cooperation. Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma said in Bangkok, "We believe in free trade. We hope that free trade policies and trade activities can go further and ensure that trade is more diversified. I don't think the trade war will begin. We businessmen hope that all parties can sit down to negotiate. Trade can solve political problems, but politics is not the solution to trade problems." (Source: The Paper)

　　2. Tmall International Cross-border Physical Store Opens Today

　　Tmall International’s cross-border bonded new retail offline store will officially start trial operation on April 20. It is understood that the store is located on the first floor of Yintai City, West Lake, Hangzhou, with a business area of ​​about 300 square meters. Luo Shuang, head of Tmall International's cross-border new retail project, said that all the products in the store are bonded products directly operated by Tmall, and the product selection is screened based on the consumer characteristics of five kilometers around West Lake Yintai City provided by Tmall big data. (Lianshang.com)

　　3. Hermes plays on WeChat limited-time experience store again

　　On April 19, Hermes once again opened a WeChat limited-time experience store. In addition to watching Hermes 2018 Spring and Summer Men's Clothing Show online live broadcast, this time, you can also directly settle and purchase Hermes' "Exploration Series" products limited to sale in mainland China, including wallets, T-shirts, shoes, etc. It is reported that in October 2017, Hermès officially opened a limited-time store on its WeChat official account for the first time, and released the Apple Watch Hermès Series 3, a new smartwatch that cooperated with Apple. In December of the same year, Hermes opened a WeChat experience store again to sell its sports shoes. The following picture is the picture displayed on the WeChat experience store page: (Source: Yibang Power Network)

Hermes plays on WeChat limited-time experience store again

　　4. FedEx's new route connects Guangzhou, China and Memphis, USA

　　FedEx announced on the 19th that it will open a new global route from April to connect the FedEx Asia-Pacific Transfer Center in Guangzhou, China and the FedEx Global Super Transfer Center in Memphis, USA, for the first time to meet the transportation needs between the Asian and North American markets. The brand new route currently uses the McDonnell MD-11 cargo plane. Starting from May, the Boeing 777 cargo plane will be activated to further improve transportation capacity. The route has 5 flights per week and 1 flight is operated every day from Tuesday to Saturday. Chen Jialiang, president of FedEx China, said: "The new route will help promote trade between the South China region and even the Asia-Pacific region and North American markets." (Source: China News Network)

　　5. It is said that JD.com will cooperate with FAW to develop unmanned heavy-duty cards

　　In the videos circulating at the FAW Jiefang J7 offline ceremony and the L4 series smart car launch conference, the container coating layer showed a prominent JD logo. Industry insiders pointed out that there was previously news that JD has been quietly developing unmanned truck driving technology, which may mean that JD's research on unmanned trucks has achieved phased results. (Source: China Economic Network)

　　6. Baidu cooperates with Meituan to deliver food without drivers, and the first order may be launched in Xiong'an

　　Baidu internal staff revealed that Baidu and Meituan have reached relevant cooperation to apply driverless technology to the food delivery process, and plan to take the lead in piloting in Xiong'an. The cooperation was originally planned to be released on May Day, but since Xiong'an's infrastructure construction did not keep up, the cooperation release is expected to be postponed. (Source: 36kr)

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　　7. Chinese consumers will surpass TV for the first time using mobile devices in 2018

　　Research firm eMarketer released a report saying that the time spent on mobile devices in Chinese adults in 2018 will exceed the time spent watching TV for the first time. The report predicts that Chinese adults spend 2 hours and 39 minutes a day on mobile devices this year, an increase of 11.1% compared with last year, accounting for 41.6% of their daily media consumption time. By comparison, their daily TV time is expected to be 2 hours and 32 minutes, down 2% from last year, accounting for 39.8% of their daily media spending time. (Source: cnbeta)

　　8. People's Daily commented on Didi Meituan's online car-hailing war: Don't just rely on burning money to grab the market

　　People's Daily published an article saying: Any successful entrepreneurship is ultimately due to providing products and services that meet the tastes of consumers, not just relying on spending money to attract attention. This requires respecting market competition rules, continuously improving user experience, and innovating profit models, whether Meituan or Didi, Internet market entities must understand that competition is inseparable from the investment of real money, but it is not just about burning money. (Source: People's Daily)

　　9. Alibaba plans to "China Chip" and develops its own neural network chips in the DAMO Academy

　　Alibaba Damo Academy is developing a neural network chip - Ali-NPU, which will be used for AI inference computing such as image video analysis and machine learning. Jiao Yang, a researcher at the Alibaba DAMO Academy, introduced that CPUs and GPUs are designed to handle thread logic and graphics, and have high power consumption and low cost performance when dealing with AI computing problems. Special architectural chips are urgently needed in the field of AI computing to solve the above problems. (Source: 36kr)

　　Cross-border newsletter

　　10. To win the US Department of Defense 10 billion contract, Amazon starts advertising at the entrance of the Pentagon

　　As the US Department of Defense further upgrades its cloud computing capabilities, a two-year contract of up to $10 billion has surfaced. Amazon, who is determined to win, started advertising at the gate of the Pentagon of the US Department of Defense. A large number of advertisements for Amazon cloud services have recently appeared at the Pentagon subway station. Amazon AWS advertising replaced Boeing, Lockheed Martin and other companies. In addition, Amazon also advertises well-known naval exhibitions across the United States. (Source: Wall Street News)

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