#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on August 13] Alibaba restarts the first quarter of the "Spring Thunder Plan", and small and medium-sized enterprises go overseas to return to double-digit growth; Xiaohongshu explains the first detailed support for 10 billion traffic: support 1,000 live streaming creators; JD Express initiates a timeliness speed up, and core urban agglomerations have reached 100% coverage in 24 hours; Youzan connects to WeChat to search for "coupons" function; starting from September 1, Amazon's UK site fees increased by 2%...
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1. Alibaba restarts the first quarter of the "Spring Thunder Plan", and small and medium-sized enterprises go overseas and return to double-digit growth
Recent data from the General Administration of Customs show that in July, China's foreign trade exports increased by 10.4% year-on-year, continuing the good trend of both import and export growth rates in June, export trade achieved double-digit growth for the first time this year.
Foreign trade has stabilized and recovered, and small and medium-sized enterprises have also experienced recovery when going overseas. In the first quarter of Alibaba restarting the "Spring Thunder Plan", Tmall launched a series of measures overseas to help domestic small and medium-sized enterprises go overseas. Export transactions in May turned to rise, and achieved double-digit growth in June and July for two consecutive months.
Data shows that small and medium-sized merchants in the home furnishing and fast-moving consumer goods category grew the fastest in June and July. Among them, residential furniture merchants are the most powerful in going overseas, with the highest transaction volume. Weisha Furniture, which focuses on logs, was exported to more than 20 countries, with a transaction volume of 40% year-on-year in July. (Europe)
2. Jiacheng International and Alibaba (Cainiao) and others negotiate cooperation on cross-border e-commerce export business
On August 13, Jiacheng International stated on the interactive platform that with the completion of the company's fundraising and investment project "Jiacheng International Port (Phase II)", it will provide conditions for the company to undertake e-commerce companies as the global distribution center for their products. At this stage, the company is negotiating cross-border e-commerce export business cooperation with e-commerce companies such as Alibaba (Cainiao), and is about to sell domestic products to overseas buyers through countries and regions such as Hong Kong or Singapore. It is understood that Jiacheng International is a modern comprehensive international supply chain management company integrating the upstream and downstream of manufacturing industries such as international procurement, international logistics, and product agency. (E-commerce News)
3. JD Express initiates timeliness has been greatly accelerated, and the mutual distribution of core urban agglomerations reaches 100% coverage in 24 hours
On August 13, JD Express recently announced that it would fully launch a plan to speed up the timeliness, especially to accelerate the efficiency of express delivery circulation within the eastern coastal and central and eastern core urban agglomerations and between urban agglomerations, strengthen the integrated network capabilities of road, railway and air, and comprehensively improve consumer delivery experience. (Titanium Media)
4. Xiaohongshu first explained the support for 10 billion traffic: support for 1000 live streaming creators
36Kr learned that on the afternoon of August 12, Ikki, the head of Xiaohongshu's live e-commerce middle platform, detailed Xiaohongshu's 10 billion traffic support plan for future brands in the sharing of the "2020 Women's Knife Method Online Growth Summit". According to reports, of these 10 billion traffic, 1 billion traffic will be allocated to enterprise accounts to provide traffic support for newly settled enterprise accounts from August 15 to 31, and at the same time invest in potato stores and enterprise accounts in key industries. In the face of high-quality merchants, we will invest 4.5 billion in traffic, including 150 high-quality merchants and 50 new red brand brands, invest 2 billion in traffic to creators, focusing on supporting 1,000 creators who are live streaming and selling goods; at the same time, we will invest 2.5 billion in traffic to support new products, focusing on supporting 30 new products every month. (36Kr)
5. Gome established Gome Online Platform Company, and former Baidu Senior Vice President Xiang Hailong served as CEO
On August 13, Gome announced the establishment of Gome Online Platform Company and appointed Xiang Hailong as the CEO of the online platform company, who is fully responsible for the company's business management and is directly in charge of the daily management of the information technology system. Gome internal letter said that the platform company builds an organizational structure around the product, technology and operational ends.
It is reported that Xiang Hailong has worked at Baidu for 14 years and is the company's longest-time senior executive. Before leaving, he was the senior vice president of Baidu and the president of Baidu Search. (Tencent First-line)
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6. Xianyu: Kindle transactions in one year have exceeded 400,000 units on the platform
According to reports on August 13, data released by Xianyu showed that from August 2019 to the present, Xianyu has sold more than 400,000 Kindle readers, with an average monthly price of 356 yuan. Among the consumer groups, young people under the age of 30 bought 66% of idle Kindles, of which more than 30% were spent by college students aged 18-22. An industry insider in the consumer electronics market said that it is estimated that Xianyu is already the largest Kindle circulation platform in China. (E-commerce News)
7. Youzan connects to WeChat to search for "coupons" function
On August 13, Youzan announced that it has been connected to the WeChat Search "coupon" function. By accessing Youzan to search for "coupons" function on WeChat, the merchant needs to meet two conditions: first, the merchant needs to have an A-level search brand official area-style service account, and second, the merchant's service account is bound to the Youzan mini program. (Europe)
8. ByteDance launches the "Xuelang" and "Tsinghua University Small Class" apps, once again increasing education
According to Huawei's application market, ByteDance recently launched two education apps, namely "Xuelang" and "Tsinghua University Small Class". Among them, Xuelang (Interactive Teaching) is a live interactive learning platform specially designed for young people. Tsinghua and Peking University Small Class is a small class live teaching product focusing on tutoring for primary and secondary schools. According to Tianyancha APP, the "Xuelang" App company is "Beijing Teaching Technology Co., Ltd.", which is affiliated to Beijing Byte Singularity Technology Co., Ltd. (Byte Education Business Line). (Cailianshe)
9. eBay signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Commerce
On August 13, eBay signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and the two parties will cooperate to deepen the construction of the "Qingdao Cross-border Retail Export Ecosystem". (Titanium Media)
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10. Starting September 1, Amazon UK site fees will increase by 2%
On August 13, Amazon announced that starting from September 1, the UK site fees will rise by 2%, including: referral fees, Amazon delivery (FBA) fees, Amazon logistics storage fees and multi-channel delivery (MCF) fees. Previous reports said that starting from April 1, 2020, the UK government will impose a 2% digital service tax on Amazon. Although Amazon will not ask sellers to pay the fee within the first five months, it is obvious that this part of the fee will be transferred to the sellers. The UK digital service tax is mainly aimed at search engines, social media service platforms and large technology companies that benefit from UK users. If a company earns more than £1.5 billion worldwide, and 25 million of the number comes from UK users, it will be subject to a 2% digital service tax. (E-commerce News)
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