#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on January 24]

Morning News: Taobao launches "What's Friend" for the interest community app; Xiaohongshu is fined 300,000 yuan for violating the Protection of Minors; JD's own brand releases its 2022 strategy: Focusing on JD's construction; Douyin Live: Special governance of superstitious pseudoscientific content such as "divination, fortune telling, tarot"...

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1. Taobao launches "What's Friendship" for the Interest Community App

According to Tech Planet, recently, Taobao, a subsidiary of Alibaba, launched the "Who" interest community app that can grow grass. Product positioning is a trendy and interesting good products research institute. Friends can gather here to grow grass and get to know each other. It is reported that the main functions of the "YouWi" App are: you can see the "home page" of various grass-planting content, the "research institute" and the personal center like the circle of interest. In the square on the "Homepage", users can see posts sent by other users from different research institutes on planting grass and sharing of good things. (E-commerce News)

2. China UnionPay: 217,000 catering merchants across the country have opened UnionPay to scan the code to order food

On January 24, according to the WeChat official account of "China UnionPay", China UnionPay uses the Cloud Flash Payment APP as a carrier to accelerate the expansion of the coverage of catering scenario merchants, establish a digital cooperation mechanism with catering merchants and industry service providers, and gradually establish and improve the cooperation ecosystem of catering scenario service providers. China UnionPay said that as of now, more than 600,000 SaaS catering merchants nationwide have opened UnionPay acceptance, and 217,000 catering merchants have opened UnionPay to scan the code to order food. UnionPay also actively cooperates with commercial banks, Meituan and other industries to jointly build a UnionPay QR code payment ecosystem. (E-commerce News)

3. In 2021, Yunnan Province's express delivery business volume reached a total of about 840 million pieces, an increase of 33.69% year-on-year.

According to January 23, recently, the Yunnan Provincial Postal Bureau announced the operation of the postal industry in Yunnan Province in December 2021. Among them, in December, the business volume of express delivery service enterprises in Yunnan Province reached 72.3305 million pieces, a year-on-year increase of 9.26%; business revenue reached 746 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.51%. In terms of business segments, from January to December 2021, the total business volume of the same city in Yunnan Province reached 130.7927 million, a year-on-year increase of 42.71%; the total business volume of off-site business volume reached 707.1976 million, a year-on-year increase of 31.94%; the total business volume of the international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan reached 3.9151 million, a year-on-year increase of 88.32%. (E-commerce News)

4. Xiaohongshu was fined 300,000 yuan for violating the Protection of Minors

According to the news on January 23, Tianyan Check information showed that recently, Xingyin Information Technology Co., Ltd., an affiliated company of Xiaohongshu, added an administrative penalty information, and decided that the document number is No. 2020213026. The specific reason was that Xiaohongshu found that users published and disseminated information containing content that endangered the physical and mental health of minors. It did not immediately stop transmitting relevant information, and took measures such as deletion, blocking, and disconnection of links. The penalty result was a warning and a fine of 300,000 yuan. The penalty unit was the Culture and Tourism Bureau of Huangpu District, Shanghai. (E-commerce News)

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5. Shopify establishes a collaborative partnership with Southeast Asian e-commerce aCommerce

On January 24, Southeast Asian e-commerce platform aCommerce became Plus's first partner in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Shopify Plus provides a fast market-oriented and cost-effective platform that enables more brands to activate the D2C strategy, while aCommerce will leverage Shopify Plus to meet the current rapidly growing customer and merchant needs in Southeast Asia. (Yibang Power)

6. Apple requires that the app must have the function of deleting an account

According to the news on January 24, it was previously announced that starting from the end of January 2022, apps that allow users to create accounts must allow users to delete their accounts from the app. Apple recently said it is giving app publishers and developers more time because it recognizes the complexity of providing this feature. (IT Home)

7. Google is sued for violating the Advertising Act

On January 24, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Google for forcing eight famous radio DJs touted the Pixel 4 series. If the lawsuit is sued and Google is found to be incorrect, it means the company is violating the Texas Consumer Protection Act for Fraudulent Trade Act. For 2405 plays, each of them will be fined up to $10,000 – a total of $24 million. (Sina)

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8. The total social logistics volume in my country is expected to exceed 300 trillion yuan in 2021

According to the People's Daily, a few days ago, a reporter learned from the China Federation of Logistics and Procurement that my country's economy overall continued to rebound in 2021, with the average annual manufacturing purchasing manager index of 50.5%, higher than the annual average in 2019 and 2020. The total social logistics volume for the whole year is expected to remain above 300 trillion yuan. In 2021, the scale of my country's logistics market will steadily expand, with the total revenue of the logistics industry exceeding 11 trillion yuan, and the market revenue is expected to maintain a growth rate of more than 15%. According to preliminary estimates, the ratio of total social logistics costs to GDP in 2021 remains at around 14.7%, the industry's business environment continues to improve, and logistics operations have achieved steady progress. (E-commerce News)

9. JD.com’s own brand releases 2022 strategy: Focus on JD.com’s creation

It is reported that JD.com's own brand has been upgraded to an independent business unit since October 2021. 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 "sub-brand industrial belt" has covered 70% of the national industrial belts. (E-commerce News)

10. TikTok Live: Special governance of superstitious pseudoscience content such as "divination, fortune telling, tarot"

According to January 22, yesterday, Douyin Live issued an announcement stating that it would launch a special governance of "superficial pseudoscience". Douyin Live stated that it will firmly resist all acts of spreading "superstitious pseudoscience". Once discovered, the live broadcast authority will be banned for 7-30 days depending on the severity of the violation. For those with serious violations and bad social impacts, the platform will impose penalties such as permanent ban on accounts and permanent ban on live broadcast rights. (E-commerce News)