April 17 E-commerce Morning News

"#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on April 17]" Pinduoduo's 10 billion subsidy: Apple's new phone has been arranged; Alibaba restarts the "Spring Thunder Plan" and more than 5,000 Jiangsu companies have opened stores in one week; Pinduoduo's stock price hits a record high during the trading session; postal delivery companies have delivered about 200,000 free items to the medical team to assist Hubei; Amazon has formed a virus detection team and will conduct regular inspections...

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1. Pinduoduo's 10 billion subsidy: Apple's new phone has been arranged

According to April 17, Apple recently released its first new iPhone SE with a minimum price of 3,299 yuan. A large number of netizens expressed through social platforms that they hope that Pinduoduo will quickly arrange a new Apple phone. In response to this, Zong Hui, the person in charge of Pinduoduo's 10 billion subsidy, said that he had arranged a surprise and saw him tomorrow. (36Kr)

2. JD Supermarket signed an online "cloud" contract with Wuchang Municipal Government

According to April 16, JD Supermarket and the People's Government of Wuchang City recently held a "cloud" signing ceremony for strategic cooperation through online live broadcast. The two parties will work together to build Wuchang rice landmark product management standards, continue to improve the traceability system, and make every effort to ensure that JD consumers can provide high-quality and secure Wuchang good rice. (Yibang Power Network)

3. Alibaba restarts the "Spring Thunder Plan" and more than 5,000 Jiangsu companies have opened stores in one week

According to reports on April 16, Alibaba’s big data showed that after Alibaba’s “Spring Thunder Plan 2020” was announced, more than 5,000 local Jiangsu companies and individuals have gathered on Taobao and Tmall to open stores in one week, which has been a big flip from the same period last year. Among them, the waiter in the Tmall small appliance industry recently received more than 300 export companies’ applications every day, and export companies have strong appeals to switch to online. According to the industrial belt data released by Tmall, Jiangsu's clothing factories have now transformed into 4,000 Tmall stores; in 2019, 1,000 factories in Jiangsu's small home appliance industry have concentrated on opening stores, covering almost all manufacturing-intensive areas in the province. (E-commerce News)

4. Tmall International will incubate 1,000 "digital first stores" in 2020

April 16th news, today, Liu Peng, president of Tmall Import and Export Business Group, said at the Tmall International Merchant Conference that in 2020, through three major strategies: accelerating the entry of overseas brands, building an international merchant incubation center, and launching imported flagship store 1.0, it incubated 1,000 overseas brands' "digital first stores" and promoted Alibaba's five-year large-scale import strategy of US$200 billion. It is reported that as of now, more than 25,000 overseas brands from 92 countries and regions around the world have settled in Tmall International, covering more than 5,100 categories, of which more than 80% of brands have entered China for the first time. (Tech Planet)

5. Pinduoduo's stock price hits a record high during the session

According to the news on April 17, US stocks closed on Thursday, with Pinduoduo rising 2.8% to close at $45.12, setting a new high of $46.49 during the session. Other Chinese stocks also saw general rises, with Alibaba rising 2.16% and JD.com rising 6.5%. (E-commerce News)

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6. Bank of China realizes interconnection with Alipay barcode

April 16th news, Bank of China recently cooperated with China UnionPay and Alipay to achieve interconnection with Alipay barcodes. Customers can use Bank of China Mobile Banking to scan the Alipay payment code to complete online payments at pilot merchants. (Securities Times)

7. Postal delivery companies have delivered about 200,000 free items to the medical team to Hubei aid

On April 16, according to China Post Express, on April 15, the last national medical team to Hubei, the medical team to Hubei, the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, arrived in Beijing triumphantly, marking a phased victory in Wuhan's fight against the epidemic. At the same time, the delivery companies have come to an end to transport the return luggage for medical teams aiding Hubei in various places for free. It is reported that in March this year, China Post, SF Express, JD Logistics, ZTO Express, YTO Express, Shentong Express and Yunda Express have successively announced the free delivery of luggage to the medical teams aiding Hubei. The latest data shows that the delivery companies have delivered nearly 200,000 free return items to the medical teams aiding Hubei. (Titanium Media)

8. Suning Finance launches "Su E-Xin" corporate credit warning platform

According to the news on April 16, it was learned that Suning Finance announced today that it launched the "Su E-Xin" enterprise credit warning platform, which can conduct comprehensive information verification and timely risk identification for enterprises, and provide professional services for enterprise risk management and credit evaluation. A relevant person in charge of Suning Finance said that with the support of the data cloud platform, "Su Exin" analyzes the characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises and reconstructs the credit evaluation index system under the background of big data, which is of great significance to solving the problem of financing difficulties for small and medium-sized enterprises. (Titanium Media)

9. Ctrip Liang Jianzhang Kuaishou Live Broadcast: 22.01 million yuan in 1 hour

April 16th news, last night, Liang Jianzhang, co-founder and chairman of Ctrip Group, appeared in the Kuaishou live broadcast room and jointly promoted Jiangsu's high-quality tourism products with Kuaishou experts. Official data shows that Liang Jianzhang broadcast live on Kuaishou for one hour, with a total GMV of payment transactions exceeding 22.01 million yuan, a total of 2.89 million viewers in the live broadcast room, and a total number of interactions are nearly 2 million times. It is reported that on the evening of March 23, Liang Jianzhang started his first show of selling goods in the Douyin live broadcast room, with the transaction volume of selling goods exceeding 10 million within one hour. (E-commerce News)

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10. Amazon has formed a virus detection team and all employees will be tested regularly

April 16th news, according to foreign media reports, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the online retail giant is improving its ability to detect the new coronavirus, which is the first step towards establishing a regular virus testing system for employees. In its annual letter to shareholders, the billionaire founder first outlines other measures taken by Amazon to curb the coronavirus, from closing non-essential services such as Amazon books to rectifying Whole Foods supermarkets. He then claimed that the next step was to conduct regular virus testing for all employees, including those who did not show symptoms. (Sina Technology)

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