#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [May 3 E-commerce Evening News Brief]

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on May 3] 1. Alipay released the "Code Merchant Growth Plan", with 1 trillion yuan in three years helping the "Code Merchant" grow; 2. More than a thousand economists jointly warned that the high tariff policy will repeat the Great Depression; 3. The process of listing in Hong Kong by Imai.com has stagnated vertical fresh food e-commerce cannot escape its fate? 4. People's Daily: The "Watch News and Make Pocket Money" news app urgently needs to be strengthened; 5. Didi issued a statement: The driver and passenger have settled, and once again sincerely apologized to the passengers...

　　E-commerce newsletter

　　1. Alipay releases the "Code Merchant Growth Plan", which will help the growth of "Code Merchant" in three years.

　　On May 3, Alipay officially announced that it will fully integrate commercial payment capabilities and launch the "Code Merchant Growth Plan", providing two major assistance to nearly 100 million offline "Code Merchants" in terms of "guarantee" and "growth", so that this largest and smallest merchant group can also catch up with the pace of the "Internet +" era. (Source: Seller's official account)

　　2. More than a thousand economists jointly warn that high tariffs will re-enact the Great Depression

　　More than 1,100 economists, including Nobel Prize winners, wrote a letter to Trump, warning of the latter's high tariff trade practices. The United States is warned not to take the trade protectionist measures in the early days of the Great Depression. "In 1930, Congress did not adopt the advice of economists, and all Americans paid the price." (Source: Sina Finance)

　　3. The process of listing in Hong Kong by Imai.com has stagnated. Vertical fresh food e-commerce cannot escape its fate?

　　With the relaxation of IPO restrictions on companies with different rights in the Hong Kong stock market and the catalysis of many favorable policies, a large number of unicorn companies are accelerating their efforts toward the Hong Kong stock market. According to the current trend, this year will be a big year for Chinese technology companies to go public in Hong Kong. (Source: Securities Daily)

　　Internet news

　　4. Zhihu responds to the privacy policy: No proactive collection will not be abused

　　Regarding the recent pop-up prompt on Zhihu about the privacy policy, Zhihu said that it will not abuse user information, and the announcement of the privacy policy this time is implemented according to relevant requirements. Recently, Zhihu launched a privacy policy. Through the introduction of the key points and chapter terms of the prompt, Zhihu informed him one by one how to process the user's personal information. This policy shows that Zhihu will collect user names, photos or videos, ID numbers, etc. with the user's consent. (Source: Southern Metropolis Daily)

　　5. LeTV Video App currently has illegal gambling advertisements and official responses say it will launch an investigation

　　The reporter's investigation found that there are advertisements for online gambling and black lottery platforms in the LeTV Video App. In response, LeTV responded that it will investigate the gambling, black lottery and other links in the LeTV Video App. However, as of press time, the illegal advertisements have not been deleted. (Source: CCTV News)

LeTV Video App currently has illegal gambling advertisements, and official response says it will launch an investigation

　　6. People's Daily: "Making Pocket Money by Brushing News" News App urgently needs to strengthen supervision

　　"Reading information, earn gold coins" "You can earn pocket money by browsing news"... Recently, a number of news and information apps have made the gimmick of "making cash by browsing news", using cash subsidies to encourage users to read, forward and recommend friends to download, attracting a lot of attention and even gaining a group of "loyal fans".

　　From signing in, sharing to daily reading and recommending friends, users' usage behavior is "clearly marked". However, various promotion and induce sharing also have hidden hidden dangers. Some of the contents are of uneven quality, which is very disturbing to the public even though they are flooding the screen; some use small profits to induce users to share and disseminate pornographic articles. Can users attracted by spending money be retained? Is there a lot of dregs in the promotion content? How to prescribe the right medicine for platform supervision? The reporter launched an investigation. (Source: People's Daily)

　　7. WHO report: 7 million people die from air pollution every year

　　According to foreign media reports, the World Health Organization pointed out in its latest report that 7 million people die from air pollution every year around the world, the same as the estimated figure two years ago. WHO Director-General Adanom stressed that everyone is affected by air pollution, but the poorest are particularly threatened. (Source: China News Network)

　　8. Didi issued a statement: The driver and passenger have settled, and I sincerely apologize to the passenger again

　　On April 29, Crazy Mi founder Zhang Huan posted a message saying that he was beaten by Didi drivers. In the article, he believed that the drivers of Didi travel platform were not in good condition and delayed handling problems, and concealed the trivial matters. He suggested that Weibo apologize publicly and said that he would uninstall Didi and sell all of Didi's investments at a low price. Didi issued a statement today saying that the driver and passenger have settled, and Didi once again sincerely apologized to passenger Mr. Zhang. (Source: NetEase Technology)

Didi issued a statement: The driver and passenger have settled, and I sincerely apologize to the passengers again

　　9. Xiaomi said that the number of employees reached 14,500, and 5,515 people were R&D personnel.

　　Xiaomi submitted a listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. The prospectus shows that as of March 31, 2018, Xiaomi had 14,513 full-time employees, of which 13,935 were located in mainland China, mainly in Beijing headquarters, and the rest were distributed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Indonesia. Xiaomi expects to continue to increase its manpower in the future.

　　Currently, Xiaomi has 5,515 R&D personnel, accounting for about 38% of the total number. From 2015 to 2017, its R&D expenditure was RMB 1.5 billion, RMB 2.1 billion and RMB 3.2 billion, respectively, while patent application expenditures were RMB 77.9 million, RMB 171 million and RMB 139 million respectively. As of March 31, 2018, Xiaomi has obtained more than 3,600 authorized patents from the State Intellectual Property Office of China, and 10,900 patent applications are being accepted in mainland China. (Source: NetEase Technology)

Xiaomi says the number of employees reaches 14,500, and 5,515 are R&D personnel.

　　Cross-border e-commerce

　　10. The market size of cross-border e-commerce strengthened model innovation increased by 49.6%

　　On May 3, iResearch released a research report on the development of China's cross-border import retail e-commerce industry. The report showed that in 2017, the market size of China's cross-border import retail e-commerce industry was approximately 111.34 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 49.6%. Analysts believe that cross-border e-commerce innovation models are constantly being made, and offline retail stores and artificial intelligence applications improve user experience. The layout of cross-border e-commerce offline retail stores is also an important direction for recent development, but due to the particularity of cross-border commodity taxation and purchase policies, there are many difficulties in the layout of cross-border e-commerce offline stores. (Source: Beijing Business Daily)

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