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Home arrow News & Interviews arrow News January 2009 arrow E-Commerce Up 20 Per Cent, Merger Creates Steel Giant
E-Commerce Up 20 Per Cent, Merger Creates Steel Giant PDF Print E-mail
 

By Peter Bachmann, on 05-01-2009 20:15

Published in : The News, News January 2009


E-Commerce Up 20 Per Cent
Online business volume increased 20 per cent in 2008, to RMB1.95 trillion, market research firm IDC said in a new report. China's largest e-commerce platform Taobao saw sales volume increase from RMB43.3 bn in 2007 to RMB100 bn in 2008. The report also revealed that the number of people using online commerce platforms in China has reached 50 million.

 

Triple Merger Creates Chinese Steel Giant
The three Hebei-based steel companies Tangshan Iron and Steel, Handan Iron and Steel and Chengde Xinin Vanadium and Titanium, have announced their merger, state media reports. The new company will be called Hebei Iron and Steel Group and will have an annual production capacity of 32 million tonnes of raw steel, overtaking Baosteel as China's largest steel producer.




   

Keywords : E-commerce, Taobao, IDC, Trade, Online, Internet, Steel, Merger, Hebei, Baosteel


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