#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on June 20] 1. Qiangqiang and Yunifang parent company plan to acquire Afu essential oil; 2. JD Kepler 618: The cumulative number of orders introduced increased by 999% year-on-year; 3. The scale of Internet celebrity fans is close to 600 million, and multi-platform operations have become a trend; 4. Liu Qiangdong: JD's first heavy drone is officially launched; 5. Ant Financial and 27 fund companies have established an alliance...

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1. Qiangqiang United Yunifang parent company plans to acquire Afu essential oil
On June 19, Yujiahui Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Yujiahui) issued an announcement on suspension of trading on major matters.
According to the announcement, Yujiahui is planning major matters for the purchase of assets, and it is expected that the transaction amount of this major matter will meet the standards that need to be submitted to the shareholders' meeting for deliberation. The target assets belong to the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry. At present, the acquisition of the asset is still in the negotiation stage. The two parties are actively negotiating and communicating, and the relevant intermediary institutions have not yet determined.
The announcement shows that the name of the target asset that Yujiahui planned to purchase this time is Beijing Maosi Trading Co., Ltd., and the legal representative is Meng Xing. Beijing Maosi Trading Co., Ltd. is the parent company of the well-known brand Afu Essential Oil. The legal representative Meng Xing is the company's third largest shareholder with a capital contribution of 10.26%. (Lianshang.com)

2. JD Kepler 618: The cumulative number of orders introduced increased by 999% year-on-year
36Kr news, JD Kepler released the 618 battle report today. Data shows that the cumulative number of orders introduced by JD Kepler during the period 618 increased by 999% year-on-year, and the cumulative order amount accounted for 12.6% of the entire JD station, and the cumulative order amount through the Kepler mini program increased by 472% month-on-month. (36Kr)
3. The scale of Internet celebrity fans is close to 600 million, and multi-platform operation has become a trend
36Kr news, iResearch and Weibo jointly released the "2018 China Internet Celebrity Economic Development Insight Report". The report shows that as of May 2018, the total number of Chinese internet celebrity fans reached 588 million, a year-on-year increase of 25%. In the past year, the scale of the Internet celebrity industry has been continuously expanding, the number of celebrities and fans has been continuously increasing, and the position of MCN institutions in the Internet celebrity ecosystem has been continuously strengthened. At the same time, with the diversified development of content platforms, the operation of multi-platforms of Internet celebrities has become an important trend. (Sina)
4. Liu Qiangdong: JD’s first heavy drone officially goes offline
36Kr News, Liu Qiangdong, Chairman and Executive Officer of JD Group, posted on Weibo today that JD’s first heavy drone was officially launched on June 18. On the same day, JD’s super heavy drone project was also officially launched. Liu Qiangdong said that the investment in related technologies is huge, but he firmly believes that it can change the global logistics industry and create huge value for the industry. (36Kr)
5. Ant Financial has joined forces with 27 fund companies to establish alliances
Ant Financial announced at its Wealth Partner Conference that it has joined hands with 27 fund companies to establish a financial management user service alliance with the goal of covering 50 million users in 2018. These 27 fund companies are also members of Ant's "Fortune Account". (Tencent First-line)
6. Evaluation of 8 e-commerce platforms: JD.com and Tmall have strong comprehensive strength and ranks first in Asia
Southern Metropolis Daily has set up a "Healthy Online Shopping Comprehensive Evaluation System" suitable for various types of e-commerce platforms, conducts long-term monitoring of well-known domestic e-commerce companies, and adopts a combination of objective data capture and media monitoring to compile a "Healthy Online Shopping Index". The first health online shopping index takes "618" as an important time node, presenting the comprehensive level of e-commerce platforms in the first five months of this year and the "618" promotion period.
The evaluation dimensions include media monitoring, online crawling evaluation data, and the number of complaints from 12345 government service hotlines (including 12315). Each dimension independently obtains data, and the total score of the "Healthy Online Shopping Index" is obtained through weighted calculations.
From the total score ranking, it can be seen that the comprehensive level of the eight e-commerce companies can be roughly divided into three echelons, with JD and Tmall being the first echelon, with JD and 93.19 points and Tmall following closely behind with 90.14 points. They both ranked in the top two in the media monitoring part. The second echelon is Suning.com, Vipshop and Gome, which are in the 80-89 divisions; the third echelon is NetEase Koala and NetEase Yanxuan, which are in the 70-79 divisions. Pinduoduo, who ranked last, scored 58 points, which is the only platform below 60 points. (Southern Metropolis Daily)
7. Honor: Wins the cumulative sales champion of JD 618 mobile phone category
36Kr news, "Honor Mobile" posted a Weibo post saying that after JD's official system automatically deleted unpaid orders for 6 hours, Honor Mobile won the cumulative sales champion of JD 618 mobile phone category and the single-day sales champion of mobile phone category on the 18th. According to the list released by the Weibo, after excluding unpaid orders, Xiaomi's mobile phone sales ranked second, with third to fifth place being Apple, Huawei and Meizu. (36Kr)
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8. Weibo: The scale of Chinese internet celebrity fans is close to more than 600 million platforms operated as a trend
On June 19, at the 2018 Super Red Man Festival hosted by Weibo, iResearch and Weibo jointly released the "2018 China Internet Celebrity Economic Development Insight Report". The report shows that in the past year, the scale of the Internet celebrity industry has been continuously expanding, the number of celebrities and fans has been continuously increasing, and the position of MCN institutions in the Internet celebrity ecosystem has been continuously strengthened. At the same time, with the diversified development of content platforms, the operation of multi-platforms of Internet celebrities has become an important trend.
In the past year, the foundation of the Internet celebrity economy has continued to expand. According to the report, as of May 2018, the total number of Chinese internet celebrity fans reached 588 million, a year-on-year increase of 25%. Among the internet celebrity fans, 53.9% are concentrated under the age of 25. (NetEase Technology)
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9. AliExpress has set up self-pickup outlets in Russia and is expected to reduce delivery time by one
According to June 19, AliExpress and DPD will provide self-pickup and self-service express cabinet services in 100 cities in Russia, with a total of 1,800 self-pickup and pickup outlets. The business was officially launched today. It is understood that DPD is one of the most important service operators in the UK. It uses its own advantages to meet the distribution and logistics needs of enterprises. AliExpress cooperates with it to establish a self-pickup business, which is expected to shorten the order delivery period to 8-15 days, which is twice the usual delivery period. (Yibang Power Network)
10. Trump threatens to impose 10% tariffs on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods
Hugo.com News: The White House said on Monday (June 18) evening that if China fulfills its promise and retaliates against the U.S. tariffs announced last week, the U.S. will impose an additional 10% tariff on another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
It is understood that Trump's tariffs will be implemented in two waves: starting from July 6, more than 800 exported goods will be affected by the tariffs; and another $28 billion will need to go through a public comment period before they will take effect. The U.S. government says the tariffs are a punishment for China's theft of intellectual property. (Hugo.com)