{"id":35,"date":"2012-11-15T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T03:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-11-19T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:48:23","slug":"ebay-targets-growth-in-china-with-a-new-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/2012\/11\/15\/ebay-targets-growth-in-china-with-a-new-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay targets growth in China with a new partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not surprised to see that eBay has agreed to partner with a Chinese firm to expand its occupation of Chinese Internet market. Because of the large potential of Chinese Internet market, foreign internet-related companies have been trying their best to occupy some part of Chinese markets for years.<\/p>\n

China, as the largest developed country, has rapidly increasing number of Internet users nowadays. Internet has already been a necessity for people living in urban areas of China. They use it for not only communication with friends and getting lately updated information but also consuming goods. And with the increasing amount of people living in rural areas starting to explore Internet, more foreign firms begins to target this amazing market for development which have huge potential.<\/p>\n

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Just few days ago, the biggest online marketplace in China, Taobao, has announced that they have made 19.1 billion Yuan trade in one day on September 11st. That astonishing statistics signals all the firms across the world that Chinese internet market would be the choice to make if they want to make larger profit.<\/p>\n

And why does China own such a great potential to grow? That\u2019s large amount of population, greater amount of wealth accumulation, growing sense of happiness of Chinese people, large economic growth, low-cost labour force and the huge amount of people that have not started to use Internet make this happen. And that\u2019s why so many international companies or banks have been making effort to explore their markets in China.<\/p>\n

Reference:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-20307571<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not surprised to see that eBay has agreed to partner with a Chinese firm to expand its occupation of Chinese Internet market. Because of the large potential of Chinese Internet market, foreign internet-related companies have been trying their best to occupy some part of Chinese markets for years. China, as the largest developed country, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ameryai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}