The online retail sales of Yiwu, a county-level city in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province, reached 185.62 billion yuan ($29.09 billion) from January to November this year, a year-on-year increase of 10.8 percent and ranking first in the province for the 11th consecutive month, according to data released by the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province.
From January to September, the total volumes handled by express service businesses in Yiwu – a county-level city administered by Jinhua, in East China's Zhejiang province – hit 6.54 billion packages and parcels, for year-on-year growth of 38.4 percent.
Exhibition halls at the "Let's Go China" Rwanda Trade Services Center in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, have been displaying various kinds of made-in-China commodities and attracting numerous local purchasers.
By the end of 2022, 100 percent of the administrative villages in the e-commerce demonstration counties will have a separate e-commerce service station.
Online pharmacies are witnessing rapid development in China, thanks to a growing number of consumers choosing to buy medicines via internet platforms, experts said.
The acquisition would result in Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co owning its first license for third-party payments.
The service, jointly launched by the Yiwu subsidiary of China Telecom and Huawei Technologies, was a response to the national call for promoting 5G and gigabit fiber-optic networks, as well as for expanding internet application scenarios.
The latest data from Yiwu authorities showed that the e-commerce transaction volume in the county-level city in Zhejiang province reached 71.9 billion yuan ($11.1 billion) in the first quarter of this year.
