[Commentary] Affected by the raging global outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the batch-and-stay restaurant industry around the world has been hit to varying degrees. In April, the overall sales of the South Korean duty-free shop industry decreased by 90% year-on-year. On May 1st, a group of overseas Chinese with cargo anchors organized a group to bring more than 100,000 Chinese buyers to "cloud shopping" South Korean duty-free shops. The number of participants in this event has exceeded the offline passenger flow of duty-free shops before the new coronary pneumonia epidemic. And the anchors who bring goods overseas have also been well received in the past.

  [Commentary] Liu Tianhong from Liaoning Province of China is an overseas Chinese who lives in South Korea. Operating an online store on an e-commerce platform is his main source of income. Affected by the new pneumonia epidemic, his business also suffered a lot. Today, through the intervention of the platform, overseas buyers who were not valued by many big brands in the past have also been greatly welcomed.

  [Same period] Overseas buyer Liu Tianhong: Like our live broadcast this time, when our buyers went to various counters, they were very enthusiastic, and then basically felt like a live broadcast. Like you used to live broadcast before, like these big European and American brands, many of them do not let you live broadcast, now occasionally it will, basically open this mouth, you write this file, you go to this duty-free shop, it can broadcast live for you Too.

  [Commentary] It is reported that this "cloud shopping duty-free shop" event was organized by a Chinese e-commerce platform. According to the relevant person in charge, affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the wholesale and retail restaurants around the world have suffered various degrees of impact, both online and offline. Therefore, both overseas buyers and overseas shops urgently need a series of powerful rescue measures.

  [Same period] Taobao's global purchaser business Xiao Er Qiu Yu: Organizing this event is also to promote an overseas retail industry as soon as possible to resume production as soon as possible, so the platform will provide them (with cargo anchors) with some new activities in some activities. Scenes. Including support for some traffic, including the promotion of some new gameplay to help buyers connect with these overseas merchants, so yesterday our entire activity came down and the overall effect was good.

  [Commentary] It is reported that at present, the e-commerce platform holding "Cloud Shopping Duty Free Shop" is implementing the plan for "Digitalization and Onlineization of New Overseas Business Circles". This time, "Cloud Shopping Duty Free Shop" is a test and a start. The future There will be more projects to reshape the global supply value chain. And through this event, more overseas batch-of-house meals companies have paid attention to new business opportunities and started to actively contact overseas buyers and Chinese e-commerce platforms.

  (Reporter Yu Ruizhai Shenyang reports)

Editor in charge: [Zhou Zhaojun]