Here are just some of the most impressive nuggets on what has happened on one minute on China Internet:

• Almost 400,000 people log in to WeChat app every minute;
• 625,000 Youku-Tudou videos are being watched;
• Almost 65,000 Weibo tweets with over 50,000 of them containing images;
• Over 4 million of Baidu search queries;
• $1.1 million is spent on Taobao or Tmall;

China Internet in 60 seconds:

(credit to TechInAsia)

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The trade war between two world’s biggest economies, the U.S. and China, is escalating. Since January 2018, we’ve seen rounds of tariffs, applied on various products, impacting negatively local businesses and their customers.

The automobile, tech and agriculture sectors are already suffering from the dispute. Companies manufacturing in China, like Apple or Tesla, are facing a price increase on raw materials which most possibly will result in higher prices of their products and eventually fewer buyers. American farmers report $11.8 billion loss in their personal incomes. Not to mention those, who went bankrupt after introducing the soybean tariff. What is going to happen next?

With the help of a infographic prepared by Trademachines.com you can get a visual insight into the subject, understand what tariffs are, and why Donald Trump turned into protectionism. This visual summary of the war traces back the initial motives of the trade dispute and gives you a timeline of the most relevant events.

US has now imposed new round tariffs on wide range of Chinese made goods worth USD 200 billion overall. China has retaliated with its own tariffs, albeit for only 60 billion.

Naturally, since the trade between the two countries is unbalanced in favor of China (the official pretext of this trade war) America has more opportunities to impose new tariffs on more good rather than China.

Huawei, China’s top tech giant and the world largest telecom equipment maker, has already become the latest casualty of this trade war. The first shots were fired with the arrest of Huawei CFO and the daughter of the founder, Meng Wangzhou.

US and many of its allies stopped doing business with this firm. This even included Google blocking Huawei’s access to its Andriod system updates and Play Store.

China has promised to retaliate and there is a growing popular sentiment aimed at boycotting US firms such as Apple.

Here is the infographic on US-China trade war

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Alibaba still dominates Chinese ecommerce with Taobao for C2C and Tmall for B2C. The other major player in B2C space is JD.com, currently this company holds about a quarter of the total market.

WeChat Weidian is another newcomer that is quickly gaining traction in Chinese m-commerce but it is not featured in this infographic due to lack of available data.

Other platforms in China ecommerce landscape are significantly smaller with market share in single digits. They also tend to be more specialized – for example, Suning and Gome mainly sell appliances and electronics while Vancle is a clothing branded retailer.

China ecommerce landscape

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Whether you are a small business, a mid-sized start-up, or a large organization, importing goods from China can offer you several benefits. For starters, their wide range of products guarantees you variety in your stock, including some products that you might not find in the local market. China is also known for producing quality goods at a much more affordable price. On top of that, China has reliable and fast freight services. Therefore, importing goods from China can save your business a lot of time and money, which you can focus towards other tasks such as marketing, promotion, rebranding, etc. It can also give you a competitive edge, thus boosting your business’ chances of succeeding.

However, despite all the benefits, it is not an easy task to import goods from China, especially if you are new to the practice. For starters, you must find reliable suppliers who can offer you a regular supply of quality goods – and this is not an easy feat. There are also several other challenges to deal with, including a complex, confusing, and expensive import process, extended transit times, fluctuating freight fees, unexpected delays, and others.

But with the right guidance, you can be able to source quality goods and make the import process smoother and efficient. Below are 8 tips on importing goods from China presented by Panda Paper Roll Company, which can guide you through the entire process.

8 tips on importing goods from China

About the Author:

Frank Ouyang is the chief manager and co-founder of Panda Paper Roll Company, a paper roll supplier and mobile payment solution provider. In addition to his love for paper industry, Frank is also dedicated to helping small business entrepreneurs to run better businesses. You can read more at the website: www.pandapaperroll.com.

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Baidu is the Chinese version Google. It is the largest search engine and is, in terms of business interests, as diverse. Alibaba is the world largest ecommerce operator that runs Taobao and Tmall, two main shopping sites in China. Tencent is the company behind WeChat, the most popular mobile based social app, as well as QQ, the messenger service.

All three China BAT giants, however, almost never get along. In fact, the war between them often comes at the expense of users’ convenience, although everyone accepts it as another fact of life in China.

For example, Baidu blocks search results from Alibaba ecommerce sites. Tencent doesn’t allow users to open Taobao and Tmall links in WeChat browser. Alibaba blocks rival payment systems on their sites and the list goes on.

Here is our latest infographic on those three companies.

China BAT: Baidu Alibaba Tencent

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According to Wikipedia, Shanghai, with it’s population of 24 million, is also the largest city proper by population in the world. It is also a home to a vibrant expat community of 174,000 and counting. With more than double per capita disposable income compared to national average, Shanghai is also the shopping capital of China.

Despite dismal air quality, the average life expectancy of Shanghainese stands at over 82 years, on par with the most advanced countries in the world.

In this post, we’d like to share an infographic from Go-globe on Shanghai in numbers.

Shanghai in Numbers

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According to the latest infographic by Go-Globe that details Chinese exports industry, 25% of manufacturing goes to electronics and 17% to machinery with the rest split between smaller categories such as clothing, furniture, plastics etc.

Another curious fact is featured in the infographic: even though manufacturing is, by far, the larger sector of Chinese economy compared to that of US (30% vs. 8%), in terms of world’s manufacturing output, it is only slightly ahead: 18.9% vs. 18.2% of the US share. This, of course, demonstrates the fact that the productivity of a Chinese worker is still significantly behind an American one. Another explanation is that the level of automation in US factories is still much higher than in China.

Manufacturing for domestic companies is becoming increasingly visible as well: cellphone maker XiaoMi and electronics giant Huawei are ranked as 3rd and 5th respectively in total production.

Chinese exports in figures, infographic by Go-Globe

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Although the digital landscape in China continues changing, it is safe to assume that the main elements, such as current dominant platforms and leading services, will remain more or less the same for the next 2-3 years. In any case, the following infographic by Sampi Marketing, reflects the present state as of mid 2015.

Primary online platforms, such as Baidu for  SEO and SEM, Youku for video, WeChat for mobile and Sina Weibo for social media, are still the main elements in digital marketing in China. Additional platforms as well as other various ways of reaching people online are also covered in this infographic which is presented in a form of sequential process.

Depending on the nature of your business and marketing objectives in China, not all of the elements may be applicable or equally effective. So, the readers should take the information as an ideal and most complete set of tools to choose from:

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In my earlier post about Alibaba, I’ve covered its e-commerce related ecosystem as well as other areas where it is expanding through diverse acquisitions. This new infographic by Go-Globe, Shanghai based web design company, presents some interesting facts and figures about Alibaba and its overall business scope.

Here are some numbers that I find particularly astonishing:

• 279 million active buyers, or more than 1/5 of the entire China’s population, are active buyers on Alibaba networks, primarily on Taobao and TMall;
• Each of those active buyers makes, on average, 52 annual purchases per year , or one every week;
• Alibaba is processing 12.7 billion online orders annually;
• Alibaba dominates mobile commerce with its 76.2% market share in 2014;
• Alipay, another Alibaba’s property which is the Chinese equivalent of PayPal, accounts for half of all online transactions in China;

Here is the full infographic:

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