Laiwang already got the more than 10 million registered users. And their next challenge is to get more than 100 million users within the next year.

Recently the Alibaba group and the former CEO Jack Ma are strongly promoting their own IM tool 'Laiwang', but according to their announcement, the registered user of Laiwang already exceeded 10 million people now.

And Jack Ma said their next challenge will be getting more than 100 million users  within 2014. According to their announcement, its active users are rapidly increasing, and they said that its growth rate is over 500%.

And Jack Ma also said that they will be challenging toward to WeChat, and it may seem impossible, but they will make strenuous efforts the 'impossible' changing to 'possible'.

Now Laiwang is providing it Android and iOS client and Web browser version now, but its functions are almost similar to WeChat, and there is no definite difference with it.

So I think it's difficult that Laiwang will beat WeChat at this time, but Alibaba group 'Taobao' has more than 400 million users on their mobile client. So if Laiwang will focus to enhance the linkage function with such an EC solution, they will have a bright future that they can change current 'impossible' situation to 'possible'.


Source => TechWeb

Each Chinese internet service visit duration ranking in 2012. Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place.

For each internet services, the number of users is naturally important, but the visit duration is also very important. Meanwhile HTWISE just published the visit duration ranking of each internet services in China.

                        all visit duration in 2012       Share               Type of Service

                            (Unit : billion hours) 

#1 Baidu                           5.61                          7.0%                 Search Engine

#2 Taobao                        4.12                          5.1%                 EC

#3 Sina Weibo                 1.81                          2.3%                 Weibo

#4 Youku                          1.59                          2.0%                 Video Sharing

#5 Baidu Tieba                1.37                          1.7%                 Community

#6 Qzone                          1.32                          1.6%                 SNS

#7 Tudou                          1.06                          1.3%                 Video Sharing

#8 QQ Mail                       0.96                          1.2%                 Mail

#9 Baidu Knows              0.85                          1.1%                 Collective intelligence

#10 Renren                      0.74                           0.9%                 SNS

In 2012, Chinese search engine giants Baidu was the 1st place of this ranking, and their 2 other services were also ranked in top 10. So it can be said that they are just the internet giants in China.  

Chinese EC giants Taobao was the 2nd place. They have the top share of BtoC EC market in China, and its market is still rapidly growing, so it may be a natural consequence.

Sina Weibo was ranked 3rd place, but there are little bit difference with top 2. Video sharing service "Youku" and "Tudou" merged last year, both were ranked in top 10.

Next is the graph of focusing to Weibo services.

The left graph is the number of visiting to each Weibo in annual of 2012.

Sina Weibo was totally visited about 1 billion times in 2012. Tencent Weibo was visited about 0.5 billion times, and Sohu Weibo was visited about 0.4 billion times, and NetEase was visited 0.1 billion times in 2012.

The right graph is the ratio of visit duration on each Weibo. Sina Weibo had 71% share in this, and it was a landslide victory.

In 2012, Sina Weibo showed the overwhelming presence in Weibo market. But as I said, there are little bit difference with top two. Furthermore Weixin also exist their backward. 2013 is still challenging year for them.

Source => Yangtse

Alipay achieved the trade of 19.1 billion RMB in one day on "Single Day" sales. [Infographic]

In China, November 11 is a day called "光棍节(Singles Day)" for people who are living the single life. The largest online payment service "Alipay" achieved the trade of 19.1 billion RMB in one day on that day. Next infographic is the time series of this achievement.

0:10  Their transaction amount hit 250 million RMB.

0:37  Their transaction amount hit 1 billion RMB.

1:10  Their transaction amount hit 2 billion RMB.

2:19  Their transaction amount hit 3.37 billion RMB, and this number is total amount in the previous year.

8:16  Their transaction amount hit 5 billion RMB.

11:18  Their transaction amount hit 7.9 billion RMB, and this equal to the amount that  Cyber Monday recorded in the previous year.

13:38  Their transaction amount hit 10 billion RMB.

Total transaction amount was 19.1 billion in a day.

Other data:

1. Total amount is 19.1 billion RMB, and this breakdown is as follows:

Tmall     13.2 billion RMB

Taobao   5.9 billion RMB

2. Total UV was 213 million people.

3. Total number of orders was 105.8 billion times.

Source => Tmall official account on Sina Weibo

Alipay started to provide their open platform service for corporate users.

Alipay started to provide their open platform service for corporate users yesterday.

They publish APIs of payment, accounting, billing, trade, sales and so forth. At the moment, Alipay only provide its APIs to the corporate user, but they will also provide them to the personal users in near future too.


According to the report from Eguan, Chinese online payment market size was 976.4 billion RMB(=155.04 billion USD) , and Alipay have 46.9% market share in the third quarter.

They would like to increase their partner by this open platform, and it seems that they would like to establish their firm position in the Chinese online payment market as ever.


Source => Sohu IT, Eguan-1, Eguan-2

Taobao also started to provide their own map service.

Last week, the biggest BtoC EC site in China, Taobao started to provide their own map service.

Taobao will start to enhance each area service via this map, and would like to accelerate their O2O business, such as LBS Ads. And they now already have over 100 million mobile user, so they will surely accelerate their mobile solution relies on this map service.


Baidu also formally established LBS division and upgraded their map API few weeks ago, so it means that their fight already started in this field too. This fight is also a highlight in Chinese Internet market.



Source => Looooker

Tencent CEO Pony Ma said that WeChat user will exceed 200 million people in this month.

"2012 China Internet Conference" was held in Beijing today. And at this conference, Tencent CEO "Pony Ma" said that WeChat(Weixin) user will exceed 200 million people in this month.

WeChat user exceeded 100 million people this March, so it follows that this user increased 100 million people in the six months.


And he also said that Tencent will accelerate the following two things in the mobile internet area:

1. O2O business
They placed QR code as the door of mobile internet, and they will accelerate their O2O business by its technology.


2. Security solution
As mobile internet user increase in China, then its security risk is increasing. So they will establish the specific fund, and they will accelerate the solution of this area with partners.


Recently, their rival company started to provide similar solution with WeChat, such as Meyou(Sina), Wangxin(Taobao) in China. And LINE is also steadily increasing their user in Japan and other Asian country.

So I am interested whether their new action can make accelerate increasing their users. Let's keep a very close watch in future action.


Source => TechWeb

Taobao formally released their IM tool "WangXin".

Today, Taobao formally released their IM tool "WangXin".

At the moment, it seems that they provide its Android and iPhone client.

And its main functions are as follows:

User can get the news from Taobao.

Voice Chat feature

Friend search feature based LBS.








Taobao said that they estimate its user will be 15 million people at the end of 2012, but is it possible? Actually, from the perspective of IM function, the function of WangXin  is inferior to WeChat(Tencent) or Meyou(Sina). But from the perspective of the cooperation tool of mobile shopping on Taobao, they may have the possibility of success, because Taobao already have 100 million mobile users, and it is estimated to exceed 200 million people at the end of 2012.


We have to continue watching their action as ever, and also have to watch that other internet giants, such as Baidu or Sohu, will follow this trend or not.


Source => TechWeb

The current situation of Chinese Internet industry. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Following is a infographic written about "The current situation of Chinese Internet."

The number of internet users:
#1  China  513 million
#2  U.S.    245 million
#3  India   121 million
#4  Japan  101 million
#5  Brazil   79 million


The feature of internet user in China.

- Male : Female = 55% : 45%
- 10 - 40 years old user is accounting for 80% of all.
- Access internet 2.7 hours per a day.
- .com 47% , .cn 45%, other 8%




E-Commerce:

- Market scale = 6 trillion RMB(0.95 trillion USD)
- Annual growth rate = 45%
- The number of online shopping user = 190 million people
- The number of joint purchasing provider = 6000

C2C provider TOP3   B2C provider TOP3
#1 Taobao  90%           Tmall    49%
#2 PaiPai     9%           360buy 18%
#3 Eachnet   1%           Amazon  2%

B2B provider TOP3
#1  Alibaba   55%
#2  Global sources   11%
#3  HC360   6%

Alipay users = 600 million users
The number of trading = 11 million times



Search market:

-The number of search = 35 million per an hour
- Baiud and Google dominate 95% of it.





Social Media:

- The number of Instant Messenger user = 450 million people
- The number of Weibo user = over 300 million
- 50% of Chinese people have at least one social media account.
- 30% of Chinese people login the social media at least once everyday.

- Yao Chen have over 15 million followers in Sina Weibo.

- LBS provider "Jiepang" have 1.4 million users.

- The number of online video users are over 400 million people.

- Hudong is registered over 6 million items.
* Hudong is a site similar to Wikipedia.









Original article => 199it

Taobao have over 100 million mobile users now. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Taobao is a biggest EC marketplace in China, but now they have over 100 million mobile users.

In the first quarter, its mobile user increased 15 million people, and it's estimated that its mobile user will be over 200 million in the end of 2012.










The ratio of its Mobile user and PC user is  1 to 5, so it means Taobao PC user exists over 500 million people.







The half of its mobile users use PC at the same time.










Its mobile user become the most active in the weekend.











Recently women buyer is especially increasing, and the category of women clothes and shoes are rapidly increasing sales.








Android V.S. iOS in March

Android 42%
iOS       58%
(iPhone 47%, iPad 11%)






Which users are buying items more?

1. The amount of items
Android   37%
iOS         63%
(iPhone 49%, iPad 14%)

2. The amount of money
Android    22%
iOS         78%
(iPhone 58%, iPad 20%)




Original article => Sina Weibo

Mobile e-commerce industry in China is rapidly growing.

According to the report by iResearch, the market scale of mobile e-commerce in China was 6.67 billion RMB as of Q1,2012.

Its revenue has increased 530.1% year on year, and has increased 25.7% compared to previous period.


Although first quater is generally off-season for the electronic commerce in China, but its revenue beyond the mobile add-value service, and its revenue was the top share of mobile internet industry.

* mobile e-commerce : 42.0%
* mobile add-value service : 41.5%
* mobile game : 8.7%
* mobile sales : 7.1%


And its market share by each companies are as follows:

#1 Taobao mobile   72.0%
#2 360buy   7.2%
#3 Vancl     2.2%
#4 Amazon China    1.2%
#5 Dangdang   0.9%
Other  16.5%


Mobile e-commerce industry in China is rapidly growing, but it's only early stage... So we have to keep attention for its trend as before.



Original article => Tech QQ

Things that happen on internet every 60 seconds in China [INFOGRAPHIC]

CIC published "Things that happen on internet every 60 seconds in China".

 - 69,444 tweets on Sina Weibo

 - 694 "Like" button pushed on Mogujie

 - 650 new visitors access to Meilishuo

 - 5,555 luggages are shipped from Taobao-Jishi and Tmall

 - 190,259 RMB are trade on Tmall

 - 166,667 video are watched on Youku

 - 600 check in on Jiepang

 - 2,777,778 RMB are trade via Alipay

 - 208 products are sold on 360buy

 - 19,026 RMB are trade on Juhuasuan(Group buying by Taobao)

 - 3,533 new visitors access to Tianya BBS

 - 1,299 new visitors access to MOP








Original article => CIC account on Sina Weibo