#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 25] Dada, co-founder of Pinduoduo: The phenomenon of "choose one of two" in the e-commerce industry is becoming increasingly fierce; Huang Zheng: Pinduoduo is Yao Ming, who is in elementary school, but he has the ability to make money at any time; the 2019 JD 618 Merchant Conference is held, and the 618 Partner Program will be launched; National Rural E-commerce Development Report: Tmall and Taobao account for 75% of the market; first quarter consumption data ranking: Guangdong's total volume exceeds the sum of 7 provinces and regions...
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1. Dada, co-founder of Pinduoduo: The phenomenon of "choose one of two" in the e-commerce industry is becoming increasingly fierce
Pinduoduo co-founder Dada said at an internal conference that the "two-choice one" phenomenon in the e-commerce industry has recently entered a white-hot state, but "things are becoming more and more interesting." He said that since the emergence of "choose one of two", the company's business has not been affected and is still growing rapidly. He said: "As a new force, Pinduoduo has encountered repeated encirclement and suppression, and will be the new normal in the future." (36Kr)
2. Huang Zheng: Pinduoduo is Yao Ming, who is in elementary school, but he has the ability to make money at any time
In the first shareholder letter, Huang Zheng, founder, chairman and CEO of Pinduoduo, said that the second characteristic of new e-commerce is "artificial first", which is determined by its genes. Pinduoduo was born on the mobile Internet and abandoned the "things first" in the era of PC search and shopping. Huang Zheng compared Pinduoduo, who was founded for four years, to Yao Ming, who was in elementary school, but he had the ability to generate income and make money at any time. He believes that the unprecedented "choose one of two" currently facing will last for a while, but the "long-term exclusive excellence" will inevitably be broken. (36Kr)
3. The 2019 JD 618 Merchant Conference will be held, and the 618 Partner Program will be launched
From April 14 to April 19, the 2019 JD Retail Group 618 Merchant Conference was held in Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan respectively. This year, JD.com 618 will provide projects such as flash sale, super brand day, and god coupon day, and will launch innovative interactive gameplay such as red envelope rain in combination with good product lists and JD flash sales channels. In addition, JD Finance will jointly launch the 618 partner program with JD Mall - free orders for all, directly subsidizing cash and securities worth 1 billion yuan for JD users during the 618 period. (Crowdfunding Home)
4. National Rural E-commerce Development Report: Tmall and Taobao account for 75% of the market
April 23rd news, the "2019 National County Digital Agriculture and Rural E-commerce Development Report" was released. The report shows that in terms of online retail sales of agricultural products, in 2018, Tmall and Taobao staged a "two heroes" with a total market share of 75%, which is three times the total of other surveyed e-commerce platforms. (Yibang Power)
5. First quarter consumption data ranking: the sum of Guangdong's total volume exceeds 7 provinces and regions
According to the report on April 24, data released by the Ministry of Commerce recently showed that the total retail sales of consumer goods in the country reached 9.78 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year, a slowdown of 1.5 percentage points from the same period last year. Analysts at the 21st Century Economic Research Institute conducted a statistical analysis of 23 regions that have released the economic data for the first quarter of this year. The total retail sales of consumer goods in Guangdong Province is about the sum of the total amounts of seven regions, namely Guangxi, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Tianjin, Guizhou and Qinghai, at 1017.896 billion yuan. (Sina Finance)
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6. Keep illegally makes light food takeaway
The social sports brand Keep is going to do the takeaway business. Recently, a Beijing Business Daily reporter discovered that Keep launched the mini program "Keep Light Food", focusing on light food salad takeaway. It is worth noting that the takeaway platform does not have physical stores, and the "Measures for Food Safety Supervision and Administration of Online Catering Services" issued by the former State Food and Drug Administration clearly stipulates that "no physical stores will not takeaway." (Sohu.com)
7. Avengers premiered globally, and its Taobao authorized peripheral transaction volume rose by 40% in April
With the premiere of "Avengers 4", the transaction volume of Taobao platform's Marvel IP authorization increased by more than 40% in April compared with March. Among them, the transaction of avengers of ropes exclusively designed by Taobao 2D merchants increased by nearly three times compared with last week. (Chuangyebang)
8. Billionaire Terry Gou's wealth shrank to its lowest level in six years, at about $4.5 billion
According to foreign media reports, Foxconn Group founder Terry Gou's wealth has fallen to its lowest level in more than six years. The Bloomberg Billionaire Index shows that his wealth is about $4.5 billion, ranking third in Taiwan. In June 2017, Terry Gou's wealth reached US$7.3 billion, and until April 2018, he was still the richest person in Taiwan. (Tencent Technology)
9. Zhang Chaoyang: Many things were not done well in the past, but now it is most important to bring the company to profitability.
Regarding the many opportunities that Sohu missed, Zhang Chaoyang said, "No regrets, no complaints, accept them, and then work actively." He said, "I, as the CEO, have not done a lot of things well before, I am lazy, and I don't care what I should care about." Zhang Chaoyang mentioned the major changes in recent years: "Now I have returned to the issue of elevating from utilitarianism and refined egoism to the issue of being a person based on values." As CEO, he believes that his most important job now is to bring Sohu to profit, but on the other hand, he still emphasizes that the company's development cannot go to a gray area, nor can it be faked. (Tencent Deep Network)
Cross-border e-commerce
10. Gartner: Alibaba Cloud's Asia-Pacific market share is 19.6%, exceeding Amazon and Microsoft's total
According to the latest market research data from research firm Gartner, in the field of cloud computing infrastructure, Alibaba Cloud's market share in the Asia-Pacific region was 19.6% in 2018, compared with 11% for Amazon and 8% for Microsoft during the same period. Compared with 2017, Alibaba Cloud's market share increased by 4.7 percentage points. At the same time, on a global scale, Alibaba Cloud continues to maintain its leading position in the world's top three. (Sina Finance)
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