Online business booming, from TCM to schooling
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DIGITAL services have been offered by domestic Internet companies and retailers amid the coronavirus outbreak to connect offline merchants with users.
Online education is expected to continue to see steady growth as schools resume remote lessons next week.
More than 50 million students are taking lessons through Alibaba’s online enterprise service platform DingTalk covering over 300 urban and rural areas.
Shanghai-based podcast platform Himalaya is teaming up with online education platforms and also with institutions such as the WWF and TED Talks.
Video and livestreaming site Bilibili is also among a number of remote education sites designated by Shanghai education authorities for elementary and middle school students.
“The pick-up of digital services signals a new development cycle for remote work, lifestyles as well as the adoption of new technologies for the whole society,” said Zhang Ying, associate dean at Guanghua School of Management of Peking University.
Walmart said online sales nationwide during the Spring Festival break surged four times from the year-earlier period.
Shoppers can also order pick-up services from nearby stores on the same day within three hours of order between 9am and 3pm every day.
In Wuhan, Walmart stores have offered two deliveries to community neighborhoods every day since local residential complexes were locked down.
In Shanghai, JD is using its logistics network to help patients get medicinal soups with traditional Chinese herbal medicine.
Patients at several local hospitals such as the Shanghai TCM Hospital, Shanghai No. 1 People’s Hospital can order through JD’s delivery service.
Alipay has attracted 1,200 developers to work on smartphone applications.
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