In a conference room at the international exhibition center in the southern coastal city of Xiamen, Phil Teng, vice president with Amazon Global Logistics China, is answering questions about cross-border delivery services.
Saphola Anayat's father used to make a living peddling vegetables off the back of a donkey cart in Kashgar. Donkey carts are now a rare sight in the city in southern Xinjiang, they have been replaced by something a bit more 21st century -- computers.
Chinese online-to-offline (O2O) giant Meituan & Dazhongdianping has announced it will set up a college to train e-commerce personnel.
China will account for 40 per cent of the world's retail e-commerce sales this year, according to forecasters
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com said on Friday British goods will come into Chinese market at cheaper prices after the country voted to leave the European Union (EU).
E-commerce companies have been given a one-year buffer period to rethink their cross-border strategies, after the government released new regulations, which ease controlsintroduced in April on certain imported goods sold online.
Chinese general merchandise firms suffered shrinking profits last year and are shutting down their physical stores due to rising costs and impacts from the growing e-commerce market.
As government hurried to counter rumors stemming from a newly implemented tax policy on overseas purchases over the weekend, analysts called on authorities to focus on an upgrade in quality instead of tax adjustments if they want to drive China's domestic consumption.
Cross-border e-commerce has been one of the few bright spots of the Chinese economy since its inception. In 2014, this specific trade category has amounted to 71.8 billion USD in terms of volume according to MOFCOM.
Alibaba, China's biggest online trader, reached an agreement on Wednesday with the top economic planner to expand e-commerce in rural areas.
Alibaba has joined with the higher court of east China's Zhejiang Province to launch an online court for e-commerce disputes on Tuesday.
China's online retail sales are expected to rise to 10 trillion yuan (1.6 trillion U.S. dollars ) in 2020 with the penetration rate doubling from the 2014 level to 22 percent, according to a report unveiled on Monday by Bain&Company and Alibaba.
Founder of the first China-ASEAN e-commerce platform, Sun Suojun from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has confidence in cross-border businesses.
China's e-commerce giant, Alibaba, is seeking to increase its presence in Latin America, according to Michael Lee, the firm's head of international marketing and business development, on Tuesday.
China's e-commerce giant Alibaba sees promising prospects for the development of Russian online trading market, said Ma Yun, founder and chairman of the company.
Singapore Post announced enhancements to its online service and self-service parcel stations on Wednesday, one day after it unveiled plans to build a modern e-commerce logistics hub.
Chinese buyers have long been known for splurging in overseas shops, but it is becoming more and more common for the country's Internet users to snap up foreign goods with a few mouse clicks.
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