Online Shopping in China in 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

51 days ago by Julia Q. Zhu, in Business, E-commerce

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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been taking a look back on 2011 and the major stories and trends that stood out. In China, this was an especially big year for online shopping and ecommerce.

For a few key facts and figures [1] about how this corner of China’s internet industry is growing, check out the following graphic that I’ve put together on the subject.

Update January 4: RMB amount spent online updated from 7,000,000,000,000 to 7,500,000,000,000. ↩

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Tags: 2011-round-ups, China, ecommerce, Infographic of the day series, Online Shopping, Twitter China

About Julia Q. Zhu

Guest author Julia Q. Zhu is a leading expert on international e-commerce in China and the Asia Pacific region. She formerly held multiple management positions for Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce company. Prior to Alibaba, Julia worked for iResearch in Beijing, China’s equivalent to ComScore. Follow Julia on Twitter @juliaqzhu.

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D Siu

Where is Beijing? Furthermore please check your spelling. There is Sichuan, XiZang, but no Sichuang. I was questioning how legit your work was and sometimes little mistakes throw your credibility out of the window, just like that.
Anonymous

D Siu – Thank you for your comment and I appreciate your eye for detail. While my analysis is sound, I do regret that given the timing around the new year there were the spelling errors that you identified. In this situation it was more important to share the infograph in a timely manner, understanding that Penn Olson’s audience of Asia internet insiders like yourself would be able to make sense of any minor ambiguities. This is not typical of my work, and I encourage you to read my upcoming pieces in 2012 to see for yourself.
Anonymous

7 trillion RMB was spent online in China in 2011? Over $1.1 trillion? Are there some extra zeros on that number or am I reading it wrong?

This Reuters article pegs it at $118 billion - ¥738 billion – still a huge number.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/22/us-china-ecommerce-idUSTRE7BL08T20111222
Anonymous

It’s incredible how much tmall is dominating B2C e-commerce. Alibaba Group is certainly the market leader in this space and they are some the greatest beneficiaries of the 750 billion RMB spent online. Fascinating post
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Naveed Shah Syed

Awesome. As a Neighbour (Pakistan) I really admire China, love them and their products. China Rocked in 2011.
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