#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on April 6]

Evening news: Alibaba responded to Jiang Fan's resignation as chairman of Taobao and Tmall: The news is true; JD Big Data: Tea sales during the Qingming Festival increased by more than 22.8% year-on-year; Douyin Live launched a gift consumption reminder function as the first in the industry; Dunhuang.com has added a service fee payment channel for fine enterprise Vip stores and Star Airlines factories; Shopee Suzhou regional collection service will be suspended from April 2...

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1. Alibaba responded to Jiang Fan’s resignation as chairman of Taobao and Tmall: The news is true

At present, Jiang Fan is no longer able to determine his position as a representative. In response, Alibaba said that the news that Jiang Fan will no longer serve as the chairman of Taobao and Tmall is true. It is understood that in December 2017, Alibaba Group appointed Jiang Fan as the president of Taobao; on March 6, 2019, he replaced Jingjie as the president of Taobao and Tmall; on March 27, 2019, the legal representative of Zhejiang Taobao Network Co., Ltd. was changed, Zhang Yong stepped down and Jiang Fan took over; on April 19, 2019, Jiang Fan was appointed as the legal representative of Tmall, chairman and general manager. (E-commerce News)

2. JD Big Data: Tea sales during the Qingming Festival increased by more than 22.8% year-on-year

According to the news on April 6, JD.com's big data showed that during the Qingming Festival holiday, the sales of snack food, sports shoes and sports clothing products increased by 25.3%, 20.9% and 13% year-on-year respectively. Huguo Temple Snack Qingtuan, Daoxiangcun "Qingtuan Small Gift Box", Judehuatian "Thirteen Cold Food" and Wu Yutai Zhang Yiyuan West Lake Longjing Green Tea Spring Fresh was launched. During the festival, the tea sales of JD platform increased by more than 22.8% year-on-year; Zhang Yiyuan, Daoxiangcun and Wu Yutai, who were key monitoring, all exceeded 6 million yuan. In addition, electronic invoice big data shows that outdoor product consumption increased by 24% year-on-year; UnionPay big data shows that tourism ticket consumption increased by 15% year-on-year. (E-commerce News)

3. 2022 Douyin Trend Oriental Season Investment Rules Announcement

According to April 6, Douyin E-commerce today released the investment rules for the 2022 Douyin Trend Oriental Season event. This event will combine online domestic style live broadcasts and short video topics, hot topics, etc. to gather domestic style domestic products merchants, products and content. It is understood that the registration time for this event is from April 6 to May 4, and the event time is from April 23 to May 4. If merchants participate in support/subsidy activities on other platforms during the same period, they will no longer participate in this activity repeatedly. At the same time, all creators who meet the basic participation conditions can participate. (E-commerce News)

4. Yangwok launches community life materials group purchase function in Shanghai

April 6th news, Yangmatou recently launched the community daily necessities group purchase function in Shanghai, and at the same time it was looking for mobilizing catering supply chain resources, and supply companies equipped with professional delivery vehicles. After passing strict epidemic prevention testing, they applied for a special license for daily necessities for Shanghai during the epidemic. It is reported that after the materials are launched, Yangwok has notified them immediately through text messages and other means to ensure that users in need place orders and purchases. It is worth mentioning that in March this year, Yangwok also raised protective clothing, masks and other epidemic prevention materials through many channels and transported them to Xinhong Street, Minhang District, Shanghai. (E-commerce News)

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5. 1688 plans to add new rules for banning blind boxes/lucky bags and product management regulations

According to April 6, 1688 issued an announcement today, intending to add new rules for banning blind boxes/lucky bags and the "1688 Blind Box/lucky bags Product Management Specifications". This rule change will officially take effect on April 13, 2022. The announcement shows that the main changes of this rule are: adding the ban on the sale of blind boxes/lucky bags, which clearly define the types of blind boxes/lucky bags that are not allowed to be released; adding the "1688 Blind Box/lucky bags" that are not allowed to be managed. In addition to the types of blind boxes/lucky bags that are prohibited, the blind boxes/lucky bags that can be released need to comply with the corresponding product release requirements. (E-commerce News)

6. TikTok Live Online Gift Consumption Reminder Function is the first in the industry

April 6th news, recently, Douyin Live launched the gift consumption reminder function, which encourages users to consume rationally when watching the live broadcast. Once the user's gift reward amount that day reaches the set amount, the system will pop up the user and prompt him to spend rationally. In addition, if the user does not actively use this function, the system will also pop up a prompt when his consumption exceeds a certain amount and guide him to the settings. (E-commerce News)

Cross-border newsletter

7. Dunhuang.com adds a new channel for service fee payment for fine-tech Vip stores and Star Airlines factories

On April 6, Dunhuang.com issued an announcement today that from now on, the platform service fee will be reinstalled and upgraded. Based on the original service fee channel, two new service fee payment channels will be added to the Jingqi Vip store and Star Airlines factory. (E-commerce News)

8. Large-scale strikes occurred in 8 logistics centers in France at Amazon

April 6 news, according to Reuters, Amazon's eight logistics centers in France have recently experienced large-scale employee strikes related to salary disputes. In response, a spokesperson for FBA said, “The strike action is limited and has no impact on the daily operations of the website.” Morgane Boulard, a representative of the FBA CFDT union, said that 1,200 employees have participated in the strike since the strike began on Monday. The strike stems from the controversy over the overall annual salary increase. Amazon proposed a 3% increase, while the union said the lowest increase was 5%. (E-commerce News)

9. eBay announced the restart of Polish site eBay.pl

According to foreign media reports, eBay recently announced that it will return to the Polish e-commerce market, that is, restarting its Polish site. eBay plans to become one of the three largest e-commerce platforms in the country, competing for market share with the No. 1 Allegro and the No. 2 Amazon. It is understood that eBay entered the Polish market in 2005, but because it lost to Allegro, it ended its business in Poland and left only the eBay international version website. eBay reportedly introduced a new feature for buyers that listing will automatically translate into Polish. It is reported that eBay Polish station will have 1.4 billion listings and more than 520 categories. eBay hopes to develop gradually in Poland and continue to add new features based on consumer purchasing behavior. (E-commerce News)

10. Shopee Suzhou regional collection service will be suspended from April 2

According to April 6, Shopee recently issued a notice that Shopee Shanghai Warehouse will be suspended from March 30, and all free collection and paid collection services in Shanghai will be suspended from April 1, and all free collection and wise paid collections in Suzhou will be suspended from April 2, and the recovery time will be notified separately. For orders sent to Shopee Shanghai Warehouse: parcels that have been scanned in the Shopee Shanghai Warehouse but have not been out of the warehouse, the platform will properly keep the parcels in the warehouse and process them after the control is completed. (E-commerce News)