#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on January 14]

Evening News: Taobao comprehensively upgrades the compliance measures for minors; JD.com launches three major measures for "New Year Gifts and Worry-free" services to help the New Year's Festival; news says Zhihu plans to list in Hong Kong for a second time may raise about US$300 million; Tmall International launches global investment promotion in 2022; Amazon Singapore Station will launch the "Easy Ship" service...

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1. Taobao comprehensively upgrades the compliance measures for minors’ products

The announcement shows that Taobao’s focus on the inspection and strict handling of product categories include but is not limited to children’s clothing, toys, children’s images, photos, etc., and the scope of review and recognition covers product text descriptions, product pictures, and product evaluations. A relevant person in charge of Alibaba's Platform Governance Department said that for merchants that violate malicious regulations and have bad effects, Taobao will permanently clear out illegal and illegal stores, and transfer them to law enforcement agencies and hold them accountable for legal responsibilities, and will never tolerate them. (E-commerce News)

2. JD.com launches three major measures for "New Year's Gifts and Worry-free" services to help the New Year's Festival

On January 14, JD.com announced that it will launch the "New Year Gift Worry-free" service. Users can enjoy "Customer Service Full-time Escort Year Gift", "Accessible After-sales Service for Consignees" and "Consultant Instructions for Integration" and "Consultant Instructions for Integration Use". It is reported that "After-free after-sales service recipients" is the first service solution in the industry. Through an electronic "JD Service Card", the pain points of industry-level users that "the recipients cannot independently conduct after-sales service" are solved. (E-commerce News)

3. Taobao’s official art platform “Youyin” was officially released

According to January 14, recently, at the 4th China New Product Consumption Ceremony, Tmall Xiao Black Box officially announced that HeyDesign was upgraded to Taobao's official art platform - "Youyin". In the future, "Youyin" will help more than 100 high-quality art merchants or artists settle in, creating a domestic first-class online art platform. In this regard, in May 2021, the Tmall Little Black Box HeyDesign project came into being. A few months ago, the HeyDesign Box Art Museum project was officially established. Tmall Xiao Black Box and Alibaba Design brought consumers thousands of top-notch art products, first-time artists and designer products. (E-commerce News)

4. JD.com’s “CEO” plan for the “supported brand industrial belt has covered 70% of the national industrial belts

On January 14, at the end of 2020, JD.com's own brand launched the "CEO" plan for the industrial belt, and made every effort to promote small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial belt to accelerate transformation and upgrading, cost reduction and efficiency improvement. As of now, JD.com's "CEO" plan for the "Journal of the Industrial Belt has covered 70% of the national industrial belts, and in 2021, it will help the sales of 61 manufacturing-type commodities exceed 10 million and more than 800 tons of rice/meals and other high-quality agricultural products to achieve upward growth. (E-commerce News)

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5. News says Zhihu plans to go public in Hong Kong for a second time or raise about US$300 million

According to reports on January 14, according to reports, a person familiar with the matter revealed that Zhihu plans to go public in Hong Kong for a second time and may raise about US$300 million. People familiar with the matter said Zhihu is in consultation with consultants on the listing in Hong Kong and may submit a listing application as early as this month. But details such as the scale and time of the issuance are preliminary and may change. Zhihu has not commented on this yet. It is understood that in March 2021, Zhihu went public in the United States, led by Credit Suisse Group, Goldman Sachs Group and JPMorgan Chase, raised US$523 million in its IPO. (E-commerce News)

6. 58Daojia launched a variety of cash reward policies to encourage domestic workers to stay at work during the Spring Festival

According to the report on January 14, 58Daojia data shows that the demand for housekeeping services on the platform has continued to grow recently, and the number of orders on New Year's Day weekly increased by 15% month-on-month compared with weekly weekly. It is expected that before the Spring Festival this year, domestic workers in Beijing will increase by 40% year-on-year, and the overall national growth will be 14%. It is reported that in order to cope with consumers' rapidly growing demand for housekeeping services, from early January to mid-February, 58 Daojia launched a Spring Festival cleaning on-call activity, providing a variety of cash reward policies for housekeeping practitioners and a professional and systematic training system to encourage domestic workers to provide services to users during the Spring Festival. (E-commerce News)

Cross-border newsletter

7. Tmall International launches global investment in 2022

On January 14, today, Tmall International launched global investment promotion in 2022 and officially launched three new cross-border import services, accelerating Alibaba's five-year import target of US$200 billion. It is understood that in early 2021, Tmall International opened a multi-dimensional investment channel and launched a hosted store opening service. Many overseas brands have "zero experience opening stores" and actively explored the Chinese market. In the past year, more than 5,000 new overseas brands have entered Tmall International, of which more than 2,000 small and medium-sized brands have successfully tried the waters of the Chinese market to achieve monthly sales of over 100,000 yuan. (E-commerce News)

8. General Administration of Customs: B2B export pilot will be launched, and China-Europe freight trains and cross-border e-commerce will be integrated

Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, my country's cross-border e-commerce has leveraged its characteristics and advantages such as online marketing, online transactions, and contactless delivery, actively cultivated new advantages in participating in international cooperation and competition, and the scale of imports and exports has continued to grow rapidly. In terms of cross-border e-commerce, the B2B export pilot has been fully launched, and new models such as "China-Europe Express" and "integrated transfer" have been integrated and developed. Customs statistics show that my country's cross-border e-commerce imports and exports in 2021 were 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; of which exports were 1.44 trillion yuan, an increase of 24.5%. (E-commerce News)

9. In 2021, my country's cross-border e-commerce import and export scale reached 1.98 trillion yuan and increased by 15%

On January 14, today, Li Kuiwen, spokesperson of the General Administration of Customs and Director of the Statistical Analysis Department, said at a press conference that 2021 is the 20th anniversary of my country's accession to the World Trade Organization. According to customs statistics, my country's total import and export value increased from RMB 4.22 trillion in 2001 to RMB 39.1 trillion in 2021, with an average annual growth of 12.2%. In terms of emerging trade formats, the scale of cross-border e-commerce and market procurement in my country has expanded rapidly. In 2021, my country's cross-border e-commerce import and export scale reached 1.98 trillion yuan, an increase of 15%; market procurement and export increased by 32.1%. (E-commerce News)

10. Amazon Singapore Station will launch "Easy Ship" service

According to foreign media reports, recently, Amazon Singapore Station announced at the "2022 Seller Summit" that it will launch the "Easy Ship" (convenient delivery) service for Singapore station sellers to help sellers manage orders that have not been delivered by Amazon FBA and improve end-to-end logistics services for sellers.

It is reported that at present, Amazon Singapore Station is currently piloting the "Easy Ship" service. Distributors Hyper (for sale of USB-C hubs, multi-port chargers and cables) and Momo Gadgets (for sale of mobile phones, accessories, electronics) are testing the service and are expected to be officially launched in Singapore in February 2022. According to reports, between 2019 and 2021, the number of sellers on Amazon Singapore Station increased by more than 45%, and the number of sellers conducting cross-border sales increased by 25%, so this service was launched. Easy Ship will be one of Amazon's new products, which plans to add more than 250 tools to help Singapore sellers optimize local delivery services. (E-commerce News)