E-commerce Evening News Brief on October 30

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [October 30 E-commerce Evening News Brief] Questmobile: Taobao's monthly active users increased by 42 million, driving the growth of Alibaba users by 11.6%; Ministry of Commerce: National online retail sales in the first three quarters reached 7.32 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%; Taobao adjusted global shopping management standards to add new supply guarantee commitments; Sina responded to launching a new social field APP after Oasis, saying that the two belong to different teams; Ren Zhengfei: The role of 5G is the same as that of highways, and highway cars go faster...

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　　1. The first flight of the Chinese and Russian freight charter flight "Cainiao" will accelerate the express delivery time by 80%.

　　According to October 30, at 3 a.m. today, a "Cainiao" cargo plane full of express parcels took off from Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport and arrived at Moscow Airport 12 hours later, marking the official opening of the first direct e-commerce cargo route from Hangzhou to Moscow.

　　This route directly reaches Moscow, with two flights per day during the peak period of Double 11, and one flight per day. It is the most frequent China-Russian e-commerce freight route. Without increasing logistics costs, the flat-mail package that originally took 50 days to be delivered to a 10-day express airline. The timeliness of cross-border e-commerce logistics in China and Russia have been greatly improved.

　　According to reports, among the packages sent to Russia through the Cainiao platform, more than 40% of the flat-mail packages have been upgraded to airline express for free.

　　Zhao Jian, general manager of Cainiao International, said that during Tmall Double 11, Cainiao will use more than 100 charter flights to deliver goods, and can fly to European and Southeast Asian cities such as Moscow, Liege, Riga, and Kuala Lumpur. (Yunlian Media)

　　2. Questmobile: Taobao's monthly active users increased by 42 million, driving 11.6% growth in Alibaba users

　　On October 30, on the eve of Tmall Double 11, the well-known third-party organization Questmobile (hereinafter referred to as QM) released the 2019 China Mobile Internet Autumn Report. Data shows that Taobao's monthly active users in September 2019 increased by 42 million compared with the end of the previous quarter, with a growth rate of up to 6.92%.

　　QM's report pointed out that the penetration rate of Taobao Group in the sinking market continues to increase. 67% of young people in small towns (users under 30 in third-tier and below cities) use Taobao, which is the most popular shopping software among this group. Previously, Jiang Fan also revealed that Taobao's overall coverage rate in the sinking market has exceeded 40%.

　　QM data also shows that Alipay's monthly active users in September also increased by 3.38% month-on-month compared with the previous quarter. During the same period, Tencent-based software activity declined, with the monthly active users of WeChat and QQ falling by 0.48% and 1.08% respectively compared with the previous quarter. The linkage of Alibaba-based software such as Taobao and Alipay has driven Alibaba to achieve a longer cycle of user growth. In September 2019, the total number of Alibaba-based App users increased by 11.6% compared with the same period last year. (Titanium Media)

　　3. The lowest price for selling cars with multiple brands at half price in Tmall Double 11 is only 20,900 yuan

　　According to October 30, more than ten brands including Volvo, Beijing Hyundai, Haval, BYD, Baojun, and Jiangling will sell cars in limited quantities and half-price on Tmall. The lowest price is only 20,900. In addition, this year, Tmall Double 11 also launched 24 installments and interest-free cars, achieving low down payment and low daily car purchases. (E-commerce News)

　　4. Ministry of Commerce: National online retail sales in the first three quarters reached 7.32 trillion yuan, an increase of 16.8% year-on-year

　　In the first three quarters of this year, my country's online retail market maintained steady and rapid growth, with the national online retail sales reaching 7.32 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.8%. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods reached 5.77 trillion yuan, an increase of 20.5% year-on-year, a growth rate of 12.3 percentage points higher than the total retail sales of consumer goods in the same period, accounting for 19.5% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 2.0 percentage points over the same period last year, and its contribution rate to the growth of total retail sales of consumer goods reached 43.7%. (Shanghai Securities News)

　　5. Taobao adjusts global purchase management standards and adds new supply guarantee commitments

　　According to October 30, Taobao plans to adjust the "Taobao Global Shopping Market Management Specifications" and will take effect on November 5. The specification shows that the description of store access requirements is consistent with the DSR and the service quality DSR will be reduced from the original 4.8 or more to 4.7. The new standard requirements for global purchase supply guarantee commitments: the application for access to goods requires procurement certificates, brand authorization, general trade, overseas industrial belts, and overseas direct supply supply guarantee; at the same time, the seller's qualifications must be global purchase stores or buyers, and the time for joining the global purchase is greater than or equal to 30 days, and the Taobao credit score is greater than or equal to 680 points; the applied goods must be global purchase overseas products. All global shopping stores or buyers promote overseas products through Taobao distribution platform will automatically join the supply guarantee commitment. (E-commerce News)

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　　6. Alipay announced that it will help 1,000 payment service providers complete digital transformation

　　Alipay announced that it will start from five aspects: policy, innovation, capabilities, talent and the connection between the big Alibaba ecosystem, and help 1,000 payment service providers in the industry complete digital transformation. According to industry insiders, there are currently nearly 10,000 active payment service providers in the market, but the overall income source is still mainly paid for differential rebates, and the model is single. "More than 90% of (service providers) face the problem of transformation." (36kr)

　　7. Sina responded that it launched a new social field APP after Oasis, saying that the two belong to different teams

　　According to the news on October 30, according to Red Star News, in response to Sina's recent launch of a new 3D fashion social product, "ADA Community", Sina's staff in charge of "ADA Community" said that Oasis is produced by Weibo, and "ADA Community" is being done by Sina's fashion channel, and the two belong to different teams. At the same time, the staff member said that the brands currently entering the "ADA Community" are all first-tier luxury brands, with a relatively high user threshold. In the future, invitation codes will not be issued on a large scale, but will only invite media or friends in the fashion and technology fields. (Titanium Media)

　　8. Ren Zhengfei: The role of 5G is the same as that of highways, and highway cars go faster

　　On October 30, Huawei Xinsheng Community released the content of Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei being interviewed by European News reporters. When answering a reporter's question, "Looking forward, is 5G a truly game-changing technology? How will it affect and change people's lives?", Ren Zhengfei said, "The role of 5G is actually the same concept as the difference between ordinary roads and highways. Ordinary highways can take cars, and highways can take cars, but the highways can take faster."

　　In addition, when talking about the value of 5G, Ren Zhengfei also took the Airbus 320 aircraft as an example. Ren Zhengfei said: "There are 17-ton signal cables on the Airbus 320 aircraft. If the line is not directly connected in the future, but the various equipment in the aircraft are connected by wireless. This way, Airbus will greatly reduce the weight, reduce fuel, improve flight conditions, and generate huge value." (Titanium Media)

　　9. Kuaishou launches the "Regional Creator Recruitment Plan" to provide 10 billion traffic support

　　Recently, Kuaishou announced the launch of the "Recruitment Plan for Regional Creator", aiming to discover more high-quality and regional local content. Regional creators with local attributes and characteristics can participate in the recruitment. Kuaishou will provide 10 billion traffic support. A relevant person in charge of Kuaishou said that the original intention of the plan was "every hometown is worth seeing". Users can understand the humanities and customs of all over the country through short videos, and the platform's content ecology can also be further enriched and improved to enhance the content value. (36kr)

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　　10. Ministry of Commerce: Cross-border e-commerce retail imports increased by more than 30% year-on-year

　　According to the news on October 30, the Ministry of Commerce stated that the monitoring of key e-commerce retail import platforms by business big data showed that the import volume of cross-border e-commerce retail increased by more than 30% year-on-year. As of the end of September, my country has established an e-commerce cooperation mechanism with 19 countries. Previously, Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said that he would further expand the scope of pilot cities for cross-border e-commerce retail imports. (E-commerce News)

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