Five B2B Digitalization Trends in China
6 min read. Recent years have seen a digital transformation in just about every aspect of business, including the automation of processes, and the introduction of cashless payments. Given the…
Category: Digital Economy
China’s Anti-Trust Move: Impact on the Chinese Internet Economy
7 min read. The BAT1 of China is the equivalent of FAANG2 in the United States (US) — what the acronyms really mean is that the technology and internet industries…
Five Chinese Non-Healthcare Corona-Tech Startups
7 min read. Since late 2018, venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments in China have slowed sharply, marking a deep “capital winter”, which has been exacerbated by the…
Chinese Internet Slangs of 2020: A Glimpse into China’s Changing Society
6 min read. The Chinese internet is an interesting world to navigate. It is often like a grapevine reserved for insiders who can crack secret codes that open the doors…
What China Has Done Right For Payments
6 min read. China’s mobile payment market has grown to become the largest in the world. In 2018 alone, it handled approximately $532.8 billion mobile payment transactions, amounting to $66.6…
E-Commerce is Social In China’s Small Cities
6 min read. Over the past year, e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD, have been aggressively expanding their influence on China’s “lower tier cities”, in a bid to capture this largely…
The Success of Live Commerce in China: Will it be a Hit in the West?
4 min read. Live commerce, also known as the combination of live video streaming and ecommerce to sell actual products, truly began in China in 2016 with the launch of…
Introduction to E-Commerce
5 min read. In 2013, China overtook the United States (US) to become the world’s largest market for e-commerce. E-Marketer predicts Chinese consumer spending on retail e-commerce to reach USD…