#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [May 10th E-commerce Morning News]

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1. Suning.com will start its first pre-sale at 8:00 pm on May 26

According to May 9, Suning.com's 618 promotion this year will start the first wave of pre-sales at 8 pm on May 26; the first wave of good starts will be held at 8 pm on May 31; and the final burst sprint stage will be entered on June 15. During this period, there will be activities such as 10 billion subsidies, 9.9 yuan free shipping, brand live broadcast, new product launch, Dajuhui, and 10 to 8 in the morning. It is understood that on the eve of 618, Suning.com revised the new product channel around the trend, re-promoted trend products, and used empowerment methods such as content planting, online first launch, multi-testing, and special promotion to attract traffic to merchants throughout the process. (Suning.com)

2. Kuaishou E-commerce Gravity Conference: Yaowang Technology’s two anchors won the “highlight anchor of the year”

The conference released Kuaishou e-commerce annual strategy, business methods and interpretation of 618 policies. Among them, the anchor Yu, Master Yu and Li Xuanzhuo, incubated by Yaowang Technology, were both awarded this title. Master Yu and Li Xuanzhuo are both Kuaishou platform anchors independently incubated by Yaowang Technology in 2019. Master Yu, who has more than 36 million fans, has won various anchor awards awarded by Kuaishou platform for three consecutive years. With the title of "Kuaishou Wine Fairy", Li Xuanzhuo adhered to the business creed of "bottle fidelity, and a bottle is also the ex-factory price", and became a very professional and popular top anchor under the Kuaishou Wine category. (Yowang Technology Yowant)

3. Tencent Weishi recruits individual creators for Douyin, Kuaishou and Xiaohongshu

On May 9, Tencent Weishi's new star program began to recruit externally. The program is aimed at individual creators who have not published videos in Tencent Weishi in history, Douyin/Kuaishou/Xiaohongshu 3w+ fans. The rule takes effect from May 8 to June 30, 2023. According to the incentive rules, the traffic can be increased by 50% after the new author enters. For creators in designated categories, the creation direction is required to meet the five major categories: "classic film and television", "health and health", "life tips", "parent-child parenting", and "plot". All bonus incentives in this plan are settled monthly. (Tencent Weishi)

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4. Baiguoyuan Group releases its first ESG report

The report shows that Baiguoyuan has deployed more than 5,600 chain stores nationwide in 2022, creating 31 own brands, and providing delicious and reliable fruits to more than 74 million members through full-link freshness and food safety management. Baiguoyuan has the qualification to incubate more than 20 new varieties, and has currently selected more than 2,300 acres of new varieties that meet quality expectations. A food safety committee was established, and the four major entities of Baiguoyuan passed the SGS food safety management system certification. In 2022, Baiguoyuan Group built and developed 7,154 online training courses for employees, with a total training time of 53,283 hours; a total of 629 employee safety training sessions were organized nationwide, with a total of 12,359 people. (Baiguoyuan)

5. Airbnb's revenue in the first quarter increased by 20% year-on-year

According to May 10, Airbnb released the company's first quarter financial report for fiscal year 2023 today. According to the report, Airbnb's revenue in the first quarter was US$1.818 billion, an increase of 20% compared with US$1.509 billion in the same period last year, and the impact of excluding exchange rate changes was a year-on-year increase of 24%; net profit was US$117 million, and the net loss in the same period last year was US$19 million, turning losses into profits year-on-year; diluted net profit per share attributable to shareholders of Class A and Class B common stocks was US$0.18, and diluted net loss per share in the same period last year was US$0.03. (Airbnb)

6. Fliggy and Wanda's three major hotel brands jointly launch a Super Brand Day event

On May 9, Fliggy and Wanda's three major lifestyle hotel brands - Wanda Meihua Hotel, Wanda Yihua Hotel and Wanda Yuehua Hotel jointly launched a Super Brand Day event to provide consumers with the summer holiday accommodation benefits of "8 stores and 2 nights of Wanda Boutique Hotels in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai". The event will be officially launched on the Fliggy Platform from now until May 16. It is understood that during this Fliggy Super Brand Day event, Wanda Meihua Hotel, Wanda Yihua Hotel and Wanda Yuehua Hotel prepared a series of discounted products. (Dazhong.com)

7. The legal representative of the Beijing company is changed by Zhao Huili to replace Huang He

According to the news on May 9, Tianyancha App, recently, Beijing Jiaogemu Digital Technology Co., Ltd. had an industrial and commercial change, and the former wholly-owned shareholder Chengdu Starry Sky Wild Vision Technology Co., Ltd. withdrew, and Yijiang Future Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. was added as a wholly-owned shareholder; the enterprise type was changed from a limited liability company (sole proprietorship) to a foreign-invested enterprise; the legal representative was changed from Huang He to Zhao Huili, and the main personnel were changed from Huang He and Zhou Yanqiao to Zhao Huili and Wu Rong; the company's business scope added gift and flower sales, enamel products sales, automobile decoration supplies sales, etc. The panoramic penetration diagram of equity shows that Yijiang Future Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. is wholly owned by YIJIANG Technology HK Limited, registered in Hong Kong. (Tianyan Check)

8. Pop Mart spent HK$6.8504 million on May 9 to repurchase 350,000 shares

On May 9, Pop Mart issued an announcement that on May 9, 2023, the company spent HK$6.8504 million to repurchase 350,000 shares, with a repurchase price of HK$19.44-19.7 per share. (Pop Mart)

Cross-border newsletter

9. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other major manufacturers have launched or planned to release 8 server chips and cloud AI chips.

It is reported that American technology manufacturers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have launched or planned to release 8 server chips (CPUs) and cloud AI chips for internal product development, cloud server leasing business or both. The chips under development are concentrated on using 5nm process nodes. These big players reportedly spent billions of dollars on developing and producing microchips, and chip projects are becoming a key part of their strategy to reduce costs and win commercial customers. (Yien.com)

10. ChatGPT visited 1.76 billion times worldwide last month

According to similarWeb statistics, ChatGPT had 1.76 billion global visits last month, surpassing other international search engines such as Bing and DuckDuckGo, and reached 2% of Google and 60% of Baidu. However, ChatGPT's own rapid growth also showed signs of slowing down. ChatGPT visits increased by 12.6% in April, compared with 55.8% in March, 62.5% in February, and 131.6% in January. (ENECNEWS)