#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on August 20]

      Evening News: News said that mobile Taobao App is testing the use of Cloud Flash Payment App to pay; "Tik Tok 818 New Fashion Goods Festival" data released: the live broadcast room has been viewed 30.4 billion times; the 2021 Hurun World Top 500 releases: Tencent and Alibaba enter the top ten; the Q2 cross-border e-commerce export value of Guangdong Huizhou Q2 increased by 1.5 billion yuan month-on-month; Alibaba International Station signed a strategic cooperation between KA key merchants with Ruiman Robot...

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1. News says that Taobao mobile phone is testing using Cloud Flash Payment App to pay

      According to IT Home, recently, Taobao apps on mobile phones have officially tested using the Cloud Flash Payment App to pay. Screenshots of mobile phone tests show that in Taobao’s choice of payment methods, in addition to account balance, bank card savings card, Yu'ebao, etc., there is now an additional cloud flash payment method. However, this function may still be under greyscale internal testing. If platforms can be interconnected, it will definitely bring new reform dividends. (E-commerce News)

2. Data released on "Tik Tok 818 New Fashion Good Things Festival": The live broadcast room has been viewed 30.4 billion times in total

      According to the news on August 20, the "Tik Tok 818 New Fashion Good Things Festival" data report released by Douyin E-commerce today showed that from August 1 to 18, the cumulative duration of the Douyin e-commerce live broadcast room reached 23.54 million hours, and the cumulative viewing of the live broadcast room was 30.4 billion times. During the event, Douyin e-commerce distributed hundreds of millions of shopping red envelopes in live broadcast rooms, and used thousands of key live broadcasts to help sell domestic products. Compared with the 818 big promotion last year, the sales of Douyin e-commerce's national trend products increased by 443%. In addition, according to statistics, during the 818 period, Douyin e-commerce sports goods sales increased by 407% year-on-year. Li Ning, Hongxing Erke, Huili, Anta and Guiren Tori are among the top sales, becoming the five most popular domestic sports brands. (E-commerce News)

3. Suning.com Bangke 818 Battle Report: Home appliance repair services increased by 172% year-on-year

      On August 20, the 818 service war report released by Suning.com life service platform Suning.com Bangke showed that on 818, the number of orders for Suning.com Bangke's home appliance cleaning service increased by 142% year-on-year, and the number of home appliance repair services increased by 172% year-on-year. At the same time, consumers' health awareness reached a new high, and the demand for air conditioning cleaning services in five cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and Xi'an was large. It is reported that during the 818 period, Suning.com Bangke has 5,000 urban outlets, 1,500 county and town service centers, and 100,000 service engineers across the country made every effort to ensure the efficiency of home appliance service in various places. (E-commerce News)

4. Alibaba International Station and Ruiman Robot signed strategic cooperation for KA key merchants

      August 20th news, Ruiman Robot recently signed a strategic cooperation between KA key merchants with Alibaba International Station. Ruiman Robots will use Alibaba International Station to promote global product layout and strive to become the largest e-commerce company in the robot segment. The company's head said that during the epidemic prevention and control period, Ruiman disinfection robots were favored by global users, and their products were exported to more than 30 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, South Korea, and more than a thousand units. It is reported that Ruiman Robot has launched more than 20 robot products, including cleaning robots, disinfection robots, delivery robots, commercial service robots, robot chassis, etc. (E-commerce News)

Internet news

5. Mafengwo: The search popularity of self-driving tours in the first seven months of 2021 increased by 137% year-on-year

      According to August 20, Mafengwo Tourism recently released the "2021 Self-Driving Tour Data Report". The report shows that from January to July 2021, the search popularity of "self-driving tours" increased by 137% compared with the same period last year. Self-driving popularity in niche destinations such as Jiuzhaigou, Lushan, and Wanning was the highest. Jiuzhaigou's popularity increased by 126% year-on-year, ranking first, Lushan, Jiangxi's popularity increased by 326% year-on-year, ranking second, and Wanning, Hainan's popularity increased by 435% year-on-year, ranking third. From the perspective of provinces, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hainan, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces ranked high in the list of popular destinations for "self-driving tours" in 2021; the self-driving tour search indexes such as Hubei, Tianjin, Shandong, and Jilin have the highest growth, among which Hubei's popularity has increased by nearly 300%, and the self-driving tour search indexes of Tianjin and Shandong have also soared by 252%. (E-commerce News)

6. 2021 Hurun World Top 500 Release: Tencent and Alibaba enter the top ten

      August 20th news, "2021 Hurun World 500" was released today. Three Chinese companies, Tencent, Alibaba and TSMC, entered the top ten, among which Tencent ranked sixth with a value of 4.5 trillion, and Alibaba ranked ninth with a value of 3.8 trillion. Among the seven new companies in China, Kuaishou, which was listed this year, ranked first with a value of 523 billion yuan, ranking 184th in the world; Bilibili is worth 275.6 billion yuan, ranking 425th. In addition, ByteDance entered the top 30 of the "Hurun World 500", and Ant Group ranked in the top 100 in the world. (E-commerce News)

Cross-border newsletter

7. US Postal Service plans to charge surcharges for peak Christmas shopping season starting from October 3

      According to August 20, the US Postal Service recently issued a notice on temporary price adjustments to key parcel products during the peak season of the 2021 holiday. Starting October 3, the U.S. Post will charge a Christmas shopping surcharge to offset the additional processing costs of massive packages. Depending on the size of the package and the delivery distance, the price increase ranges from US$0.25 to US$5, and the surcharge policy is expected to continue until December 26. The official website of the U.S. Postal Service shows that the price adjustment policy applies to commercial and US retail competitive parcel products, such as priority express delivery, priority mail, parcel return services and other products. The international product prices will not be affected by this price adjustment. (E-commerce News)

8. Guangdong Huizhou Q2 cross-border e-commerce export value increased by 47.5% month-on-month

      On August 20, Huizhou Customs recently released data showing that since the establishment of the comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone in Huizhou last year, Huizhou's cross-border e-commerce business volume has shown a continuous growth trend, and the cumulative value of cross-border e-commerce B2C and B2B exports has reached 3.2 billion yuan. Among them, the value of cross-border e-commerce exports in the second quarter of this year reached 1.5 billion yuan, a month-on-month increase of 47.5% over the first quarter. The main export commodities cover clothing, toys, daily necessities, etc., and the export destinations include Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States and other countries and regions. (E-commerce News)

9. Yinchuan Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone Public Service Platform Launched

      August 20th news, recently, the 5th China-Arab Countries Expo Cross-border E-commerce Innovation and Development Summit Forum was held in Yinchuan. The forum officially released the construction results of China (Yinchuan) cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, and launched the public service platform of Yinchuan cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone. It is understood that since the State Council approved the establishment of the China (Yinchuan) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone, Yinchuan has achieved results in the construction of cross-border e-commerce parks, enterprise introduction and cultivation, and trade promotion. (E-commerce News)

10. Ningxia's first cross-border e-commerce experience store sales exceeded 114,000 yuan in the first month

      On August 20, at the end of July this year, the Yindamen cross-border e-commerce O2O experience store in Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone was officially launched, which also marks the first time that the new cross-border e-commerce business model of displaying sales and bonded warehousing is displayed in Yinchuan. Statistics show that the experience store has been in business for less than a month and has sold 338 orders with an amount of 114,000 yuan. At present, the store has nearly 1,500 products for 10 categories, including cosmetics, maternal and child products, daily care, health care products, toys, etc., for purchase. After the official business is opened, consumers can place orders and mail goods from the online mini program. (E-commerce News)