JD.com, one of China's largest e-commerce platforms, was founded in 1998. It began as an electronics retailer and has since grown into a massive online marketplace offering everything from electronics and fashion to groceries and household essentials.
Taobao is one of China's leading online shopping platforms. Although the application is only in Chinese, buying things is pretty easy. Here is a step-by-step guide to shopping on Taobao.
Founded in 2015, Pinduoduo, one of China's leading mobile e-commerce platforms, is best known for its social group-buying model, where users team up with friends, family, or even strangers to purchase items at lower prices. Here's a step-by-step guide to shopping on Pinduoduo.
China's push to foster international consumption center cities — first introduced in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25), piloted in the five Chinese cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Chongqing, and supported by targeted policies from the Ministry of Commerce — has enhanced the country's consumer environment globally.
Chinese e-commerce giant JD has launched a standalone food delivery application and an independent user-review service, in a move to expand its presence in the country's burgeoning local services market.
Following the opening of the first Coach Coffee Shop in Shanghai in July, Coach introduced its coffee concept to the 7th China International Import Expo (CIIE) for the first time.
With China optimizing its instant tax refund policy, coupled with the continued expansion of its visa-free access policies, shopping is evolving from being a casual travel activity into a primary motivation for overseas tourists visiting the country, experts and executives said.
While strolling around Shanghai's trendiest shopping precinct on their visit, Vietnamese couple Nhu Truong and Tu Vo had an unexpected opportunity to take part in an exciting new retail trend.
During an interview at the guest room of a home appliances store in China World Mall in Beijing in mid-March, Hubert de Haan, senior vice-president for China of Germany's BSH Home Appliances Group, sipped his coffee thoughtfully, while stressing that China "is still worth it".
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