Friday, October 19, 2012

China’s e-commerce market valued at US$45 bil in Q2


News this week: Recently published research claims that the transaction volume of China’s e-commerce industry reached US$44.5 billion in the second quarter of 2012 – a jump of 45% year-on-year.

A report published by Analysys International claims that the consumer-focused arm of Alibaba Group, Taobao, holds a 76% market share of China’s e-commerce industry with transaction volume exceeding US$31.9 billion in the second quarter of this year. Trailing far behind Alibaba were 360buy (5.5%), Tencent (4.5%), Suning (1.2%), Amazon.com (0.8%), Dangdang (0.7%) and Yihaodian (0.3%).

In May this year, China’s vice minister of commerce, Jiang Yaoping stated that e-commerce represented 4% of retail sales in China in 2011, with transactions up 30% to US$925 billion – or 12.5% of China’s GDP.

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