Just after the eight-day National Day golden week, the competition among Chinese e-commerce giants has begun - they are preparing for the upcoming annual Double 11 shopping festival.
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Pinduoduo, China’s second largest e-commerce platform by traffic, recently announced that it would establish the “Cloud E-Commerce Alliance of Hairy Crabs in Yangtze River Delta”.
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However, when their e-commerce rivals like Alibaba’s Taobao and JD.com were boasting about their inflated GMV numbers during the shopping festival, Pinduoduo took another approach.
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Alibaba’s annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival has only just begun and it has already generated $12.0 billion in GMV (84 billion yuan) during the first hour since the event kicked off at midnight.
Alibaba Group kicked off its 2019 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, taking the annual celebration into its second decade with a focus on “new consumption,” “new business” and contributing to a greener society.
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Retail giant Tmall Global launched its first English-language website to attract more merchants and businesses from around the world to join China’s largest cross-border online shopping platform.