"#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on December 28]"

E-commerce newsletter

1. Alipay face-scanning payment has been launched in Beijing, and the technology has been launched in other cities

Alipay face-scanning payment was launched for the first time in Beijing. Baked goods chain Weidomei announced that it has connected to Alipay face-scanning payment device "Dragonfly" in more than 300 stores in Beijing to assist in manual cashier efficiency. Before this, Ant Financial had already deployed face-scanning payment technology outside first-tier cities. According to incomplete statistics, in addition to first- and second-tier cities, related technologies have been used in more than 50 third- and fourth-tier cities. (Sina Technology)

2. Shanghai multi-district surprise inspection of Quanjian stores: 1 company was banned without a license, 1 company involved in false propaganda

Recently, the incidents related to Quanjian Group have continued to ferment, which has aroused public doubts about the so-called Quanjian physiotherapy store and Quanjian health care product store. Yesterday, regulatory departments in many districts in Shanghai conducted a surprise inspection of relevant stores in their jurisdiction and found many problems. Among them, the "Fire Phoenix Fire Therapy Health Center" was banned for unlicensed, "Quanjian Yide Traditional Chinese Medicine" was investigated for suspected false propaganda, and "Quanjian Health Therapy Studio" was suspected of violating the relevant provisions of the Advertising Law. (Shangguan News)

3. Suning Xiaodian will enter the community group buying nationwide to recruit 100,000 team leaders

On December 27, Suning.com's 2019 New Year's Goods Festival kicks off today. At the meeting, Bao Junwei, general manager of Suning Xiaodian Group's Commodity Management Center, announced that "On January 18 next year, Suning Xiaodian will also join the community group buying track, launch community group buying services, and recruit 100,000 group leaders nationwide."

With the coverage of 20,000 communities, the interaction and self-communication of 60 million users, the "community group buying" of small shops is coming in full force. Taking community scenarios as the actual place and "group leader" as the distribution fulcrum of social e-commerce, Xiaodian Group Buying will achieve rapid spread of dual-line channels with its unique O2O model, and further ferment on online platforms such as WeChat groups and mini programs outside the Xiaodian APP. (Yibang Power)

4. Economic and Economic Consultation: The e-commerce law is implemented on the New Year's Day, and the micro-business purchasing agent ends the era of wild growth

The Economic Reference News published an article saying: The E-Commerce Law will be officially implemented on January 1, 2019. At that time, there will be a special law on the legitimate rights and interests of all parties in e-commerce and e-commerce behavior norms, which is also the first comprehensive law in the field of e-commerce in my country. Industry insiders pointed out that individual sellers did not need to conduct industrial and commercial registration before, and have been in the periphery of supervision and a "gray area". The implementation of the "E-Commerce Law" will end this wild growth state. (Economic Reference News)

Internet news

5. Sing Tao Daily: Hong Kong consumers can use Hong Kong version of WeChat wallet to pay in the mainland

The Sing Tao Daily quoted Tencent as saying that Tencent’s WeChat Pay Hong Kong has successively connected to more than 800,000 physical stores in the mainland starting this month, and Hong Kong consumers can use the Hong Kong version of WeChat wallet to make payments. Each transaction will automatically convert the RMB price into the amount of Hong Kong dollars to be paid, and the user will not be charged a handling fee. More than 800,000 physical stores include large department stores, such as Walmart, Yonghui Life and Watsons, as well as hotels such as Haidilao. (Bloomberg)

6. State Administration for Market Regulation: Promote offline unreasonable returns

On December 27, Zhang Mao, Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, revealed at the National Market Supervision Work Conference that the supervision of the Internet will be strengthened next year. Carry out the 2019 Internet Sword Special Action to focus on combating false propaganda and illegal promotions. Strengthen consumer rights protection and promote the establishment of an offline no-reason return system. By the end of next year, the various complaint and reporting hotline platforms for market supervision will be integrated into the 12315 complaint platform nationwide. (Beijing Business Daily)

7. People's Daily Comment Quan Jian is in a Controversy: Don't joke about life

Regarding the "10 billion health empire Quanjian" incident, the official WeChat account of "People's Daily Commentary" stated that whether it is the "personal irregular behavior of using the Quanjian brand" as stated in the statement of Quanjian, it also proves that in the sales of health products, making a difference and exaggerating the effects is a common "routine". Health products are not drugs, nor are they "universal magical medicines". This should be a consensus and common sense. For any company or anyone, you need to tighten your heart and never make fun of your life. (36Kr)

8. iResearch: Alipay and WeChat continue to occupy the absolute share of the mobile payment market in the third quarter

The "Quarterly Monitoring Report on China's Third Party Payment Mobile Payment Market in 2018" released by iResearch shows that in the third quarter of 208, the transaction size of China's third-party payment mobile payment market reached RMB 438,3573 billion, an increase of 11.52% month-on-month, changing the situation of a 2.62% month-on-month decline. Alipay and WeChat continued to occupy the absolute share of the mobile payment market in the third quarter, reaching 92.53%, an increase of 0.73% from the previous quarter. (36Kr)

Cross-border e-commerce

9. Amazon: Record sales of smart homes during the holiday season

According to foreign media reports, Amazon announced that during this holiday season, global customers have set a record high in purchases from Amazon, and users have ordered products using Amazon's voice assistant Alexa as a three times that of last year. Compared to last year, the company sold millions of more privately-branded devices, such as the Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick 4K. Amazon says smart home devices also set a record sales, including Amazon smart sockets, Ring Video doorbell 2 and iRobot (Tencent Technology)

10. Russia's orders on China's e-commerce platforms doubled year-on-year

Recently, Yandex Payment, Russia's largest payment service provider, joined forces with Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce platform AliExpress, to launch a survey on Russian online shopping users. The results show that in December 2018, the number of orders for combat nations on Chinese e-commerce platforms increased by 105% year-on-year, which is more than doubled last year.

"When Russian users come to AliExpress to search for products, they often have no specific intentions or ideas. Recently, they usually search for words such as "New Year" and "Christmas" on the platform. As of the 20th of this month, "New Year" and "Christmas" ranked among the top 20 entries searches on AliExpress platform." said Liu Wei, head of AliExpress Russia Station. (E-commerce online)

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