Social e-commerce is gaining importance in China

July 21, 2018, 05:11
Beijing, July 21 (Prensa Latina) The so-called social e-commerce is currently expanding rapidly in China and is expected to exceed $ 170 billion by 2018, according to official data.

According to a report by the China Internet Conference, this figure represents an increase of 66.7% over the previous year.

This type of exchange appeared in the Asian giant in 2013 and relies on the combination of Speaking to Prensa Latina, Ju Xiaofeng, chairman of the group Hit Big Data, pointed out the intention of the Chinese government to Integrate the internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy to encourage growth.

We can predict that in the future the smart city, smart financing, intelligent education, intelligent health, intelligent transportation, among other areas, will perform all kinds According to the published report, more than 30 million people will work in the e-commerce industry. in 2018, a growth of 50.2 percent over the 2017 figure.

Official data show that the volume of online shopping transactions reached 7.2 billion yuan (1.1 billion yuan) of dollars)) last year, an increase of 32.2% over 2016.

This increase is directly related to the expansion of the number of Internet users on the Asian giant, figure which exceeded 770 million last January.

] 97.5% of this total are subscriptions to the mobile Internet, which is why China is the largest mobile payments market in the world.

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