#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on January 21]

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on January 21] Suning.com 2021 Online New Year’s Festival was launched; Douyin launched a "Woodpecker Special Operation" to crack down on fraud and ban 180,000 accounts; Best Group responded to "consider selling companies in strategic evaluation": market rumors are untrue; AliExpress plans to test automatic express cabinets in Poland; Mafengwo: staggered tours and local in-depth tours have become new trends in this year's Spring Festival tourism...

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　　1. Suning.com 2021 Online New Year’s Goods Festival kicks off

　　Today, Suning.com held the launch ceremony of the "Suning Online New Year's Goods Festival". The "2021 National Online New Year's Festival" will be launched today and end on February 18, and will last for a total of 30 days. On January 28, Suning.com will launch the "5G Cloud New Year" event to advocate 5G online cloud New Year greetings. (Europe)

　　2. Follow-up of the Pinduoduo storm: Some departments vote to decide whether to implement "996", and overtime pay may be paid monthly

　　It was learned from the Pinduoduo employee department that Pinduoduo has launched multiple management fine adjustments internally. The working hours of some groups in the marketing department have been adjusted from "11-11-6" that is not explicitly specified but employees have defaulted to "9-9-6". In addition, individual departments initiated a daily routine vote, allowing employees to choose one of "11-11-6" and "9-9-6". In addition, Pinduoduo may adjust its employees' overtime pay to monthly payments around the Spring Festival. Previously, the annual overtime pay for Pinduoduo employees would be paid together with a fixed year-end bonus before the Spring Festival. The overtime pay was only paid once a year, and the amount was about equal to the employee's salary for about 2 months. (LatePost later)

　　3. Douyin launches a "Woodpecker Special Operation" to crack down on fraud and ban 180,000 accounts

　　According to January 20, from November to December 2020, the Douyin Security Center launched a two-month "Woodpecker Special Operation". Through the intelligent anti-fraud system independently developed by Douyin Security Center, combined with the latest model strategies, intercepted 882,397 suspected fraud violations, and banned 184,964 suspected fraud accounts, including 112,726 suspected "pig killing fraud" accounts, 24,088 suspected "shopping fraud" accounts, 20,763 suspected "fan pampering fraud" accounts, 20,031 suspected "order fraud" accounts, and 7,356 related accounts in other categories. (Yibang Power)

　　4. Best Group responded to "consider selling companies in strategic assessment": market rumors are untrue

　　January 20th news, media reports today said that Best Group is considering the option of selling the company in its strategic assessment. In response, Best Group responded that the market rumors quoted in the report were untrue. Best Group has stated that Mr. Zhou Shaoning, Chairman and CEO, has no plans to sell the company's shares. Mr. Zhou Shaoning is optimistic about the long-term value of Best comprehensive supply chain and logistics services, and is full of confidence in the company's future development. As of 17:25 pm, Best Group's U.S. stocks rose 30.24% before the market opened. (E-commerce News)

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　　5. More than half of Amazon Prime members are annual members

　　Data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners Co., Ltd. (CLRP) shows that as of December 31, 2020, more than half (52%) of Amazon Prime members were annual members, compared with only 49% three months ago.

　　According to CIRP, Amazon has 142 million Prime members in the United States. In the fourth quarter 2019 financial report released in January 2020, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once said that the company's Prime members have reached 150 million. (Cross-border knowledge)

　　6. Polish e-commerce Allegro will launch its B2B website Allegro Biznes

　　According to reports on January 20, Polish e-commerce Allegro recently issued an announcement stating that it will launch the B2B website Allegro Biznes, aiming to provide companies with a wider range of products and reduce the cost of purchasing by companies.

　　According to reports, Allegro Biznes will focus on corporate sellers, suitable for industries such as auto repair shops, construction companies, beauty salons, etc. They can mainly purchase some cleaning products, IT equipment or more professional tools on the website. (Cross-border knowledge)

　　7. AliExpress plans to test automatic express cabinets in Poland

　　According to Interface News, Bloomberg News reported that Gary Topp, head of the Central and Eastern European market of Alibaba's cross-border e-commerce platform AliExpress, said that AliExpress plans to test automatic express cabinets in the Polish market.

　　Meanwhile, according to the Polish business news website WiiadomościHandlowe, Gary Topp said: "We hope to create our own express cabinet network in Poland... We have not set the start date of the project at present, but in the next year, the investment in the logistics sector will undoubtedly be one of our key businesses." (Cross-border knowledge)

　　8. Amazon appeals to the European Commission: Italy should no longer conduct antitrust investigations

　　According to reports on January 20, Amazon reportedly appealed to the EU Intermediate Court General Court today, opposing the European Commission's permission to launch an antitrust investigation into Amazon. It is reported that the survey mainly involves Amazon's "buy box" (gold shopping cart), which allows consumers to add goods from specific retailers directly to their shopping carts. On Amazon platform, getting "buy box" means more sales. (E-commerce News)

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　　9. Alipay launches nucleic acid testing appointments, home sampling and other services

　　Alipay’s “epidemic service express train” has launched a number of services including location inquiry of nucleic acid institutions across the country, nucleic acid testing appointments, home sampling appointments, and nucleic acid testing result inquiry. The Alipay nucleic acid testing agency appointment service has covered more than 76 cities and more than 200 institutions; the door-to-door sampling service currently covers 45 cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Tianjin, Yiwu, etc., and more other cities are being launched one after another. (Europe)

　　10. Mafengwo: staggered tours and local in-depth tours have become new trends in this year's Spring Festival tourism

　　Today, Mafengwo Tourism released a Spring Festival tourism trend report, showing that compared with previous years, people pay more attention to local in-depth play during the 2021 Spring Festival holiday, and tourists from other places prefer to choose to travel in a short and medium-distance manner. The peak of holiday travel is not as concentrated as before and after the Spring Festival. More people advance or postpone their travel dates by means of holidays. The domestic destinations with the highest popularity of tourism during the Spring Festival holiday are Sanya, Guangzhou, Changsha, Shanghai, Chongqing, Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Harbin and Beijing. Since January, the search popularity of keyword "surrounding tours" has increased by 71%. (Europe)

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