#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on June 20] Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong: Yiwu and Alibaba have a high starting point in cooperation; "2019 China E-commerce Semi-annual Report": Chinese people shop nearly 4 trillion yuan in the first five months; Yangmatou overseas shopping live broadcast first battle of 618, with transaction volume reaching tens of millions per hour; Baidu knows to respond to the entry "mocking the sheep": apologize to Zhang Yixing; plagiarize the promotional image of the Spanish official website, Xiaomi apologizes and fires the employees involved...
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1. Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong: Yiwu and Alibaba have a high starting point for cooperation
On June 19, Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong said at the ceremony of reaching a strategic cooperation between Yiwu Municipal People's Government and Alibaba Group on eWTP, "Yiwu and Alibaba have been in contact for a long time. We have many relationships and common history and experience in exploration, which makes our cooperation today have a very high starting point." Alibaba is willing to work with Yiwu to make trade more convenient, more inclusive and better through joint creation, and let the "World's Small Commodity Capital" stand at the top of the world. (E-commerce News)
2. Alibaba's organization is adjusted again: Hema upgrades to an independent business group
Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong announced a new round of future-oriented organizational upgrades through a full-staff letter. Alibaba will reorganize Alibaba's innovation business group, with Zhu Shunyan as president, responsible for UC and its mobile innovation business, as well as Tmall Elf, Alibaba Literature, and Alibaba Music. At the same time, Hema was upgraded to an independent business group, and Hou Yi continued to serve as Hema president. DingTalk entered the Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group, and Chen Hang reported to Zhang Jianfeng, CTO of Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group. (Yibang Power)
3. "2019 China E-commerce Semi-annual Report": Chinese people shop nearly 4 trillion yuan in the first five months
According to the "2019 China E-commerce Semi-Annual Report" program, China's total online retail sales reached 3.86 trillion yuan in the first five months of this year, accounting for more than one-fifth of the total retail sales of consumer goods. Thanks to the traffic effect of social e-commerce, the number of e-commerce users continues to increase. As of December 2018, the number of online shopping users in China reached 610 million, and the online shopping penetration rate exceeded 70%. (E-commerce News)
4. The mid-618 promotion ended, Honor won the double championship in sales and sales of four major platforms
On June 19, according to the official data released by e-commerce platforms such as JD.com, Tmall, Suning.com, etc., Honor won the double championship of JD.com's cumulative sales and Android mobile phone sales, Tmall 618 mobile phone brand sales champion on the day of Tmall 618, Suning 6.1-6.18 Android mobile phone brand cumulative sales and sales champion, Gome's online 6.1-6.18 mobile phone brand cumulative sales champion, and other major championships.
Honor Mobile won the championship in JD.com, Tmall and Suning in multiple price ranges, and ranked the top three in JD.com's cumulative sales list of 6.1-6.18 mobile phones, and ranked six in the top ten; Honor 20 series won 21 major championships in JD.com, Tmall, Suning, Gome Online, Vipshop and other platforms. (Titanium Media)
5. The first battle of Yangmatou’s overseas shopping live broadcast 618, with transaction volume reaching tens of millions per hour
According to June 19, Yangmatou overseas shopping live broadcast participated in the battle for the first time during this year's 618 E-commerce Mid-Year Shopping Festival. On June 18, the average hourly transaction volume of Yangmatou overseas shopping live broadcast reached 10 million yuan. It is understood that the 618 mid-year shopping festival of Yangmatou started on June 16. Overseas shopping live broadcast spans 28 countries and more than 200 shopping scenes on four continents, and 1,742 live broadcasts were completed in three days. As of 24:00 on the 18th, the total live broadcast time was 429,699 minutes, equivalent to 1,432 Spring Festival Galas. (E-commerce News)
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6. Starbucks and Hema cooperate to launch a special "Delivery Star Chef"
On June 20, Starbucks and Alibaba's Hema co-created a special Star Delivery Star Chef jointly launched at the Hema Shilibao Store in Beijing yesterday. This is the third "Delivery Star Chef" Hema store to be launched nationwide and the first Delivery Star Chef Store in Beijing. (E-commerce News)
7. Baidu knows to respond to the entry "Mocking the Sheep": apologize to Zhang Yixing
Regarding the controversial entry "Damn the Sheep" entries, Baidu Knows responded, "1. This entry was created spontaneously by netizens. I know that the entry was processed in a regular video manner and there is no official attitude. 2. Although the content of the entry itself is objective and neutral, our push did not take into account the emotions and feelings of Mr. Zhang Yixing and his fans, which is indeed inappropriate. I apologize here." (36Kr)
8. The promotional image of the official website of Spain is plagiarized, Xiaomi apologized and fired the employee involved
On June 20th, Xiaomi has admitted that the company did use an artist's work without authorization when the promotional picture helped promote its products and said it had fired employees who violated the rules.
Not long ago, it was reported that Xiaomi's Spanish website used elements from three works by 3D artist Peter Tarka. Taka declared that he was "100% sure" that Xiaomi used his work, and the elements inside seemed to be arranged quite clearly.
Now, Xiaomi blames an employee and says the incident was caused by “mistakes in our approval process.” Xiaomi promised to strengthen internal approval procedures "to prevent this from happening again" and apologize to Taka. Taka's works have been deleted from Xiaomi's website. (NetEase News)
9. Walmart applied for a drone technology patent in 2018 to surpass Amazon
According to a report released by accounting company BDO, Walmart submitted a total of 56 patent applications in 2018, while Amazon only had 54. "I'm not surprised that Walmart and many other companies are stepping up patent applications and control over their own technology, because it's obvious that they see drone-based delivery as an important part of their future plans," said Tony Spiller, head of technology and media at BDO.
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10. Amazon will open its fifth logistics center in Spain to expand its global influence
Recently, Amazon announced that it will open Amazon's fifth Spanish logistics center in Trapagaran, Spain to continuously expand its global influence.
Amazon said it is working with two independent express companies to build an 8,000-square-meter logistics center. The two companies will employ more than 60 drivers to deliver packages to customers in the Bilbao region. At the same time, they will also deliver parcels from existing Spanish logistics centers to new logistics stations so that they can strategically transport parcels to nearby customers. (Hugo.com)
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