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Shopping Spree Breaks Records 35.02 Billion Yuan Spent in Single’S Day Extravaganza TOP NEWS/A2 Overcast 13/15°C Reporting China and the World Since 1999 Price 2 Yuan Vol.014 No.4520 www.shanghaidaily.com Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shopping spree breaks records 35.02 billion yuan spent in Single’s Day extravaganza TOP NEWS/A2 METRO Dogs On Patrol Police dog patrols are strength- ened in Shanghai’s Zhabei District ahead of the period leading up to the Spring Festival holiday — Jan- uary 30 to February 5 next year — when there is usually an upsurge in thefts. Since dog patrols were introduced about a year ago the district has seen the number of crime cases halved. A4 NATIONAL Surveys Collide Single men in Guangdong Prov- ince are having difficulty in finding their other half because of their fast pace of life and devotion to wealth, according to a matchmak- ing website. However, a rival site says men in the province have the highest chance of success in finding a girlfriend compared to other regions. A7 WORLD Temple Ruling The UN’s top court rules that the area around an ancient temple on the Thai border belongs to Cambodia and any Thai security Typhoon survivors begging for help TOP NEWS/A3 forces there should leave. At least 28 people have been killed since Children in Cebu hold signs asking for help and food along a highway after Typhoon Haiyan brought devastation to the 2011 in disputes over owner- central Philippines, killing at least 10,000 people. The typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands face a daunting relief effort, as ship of the patch of land next to bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and dazed survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police the 900-year-old Preah Vihear guarded stores to prevent people trying to haul off food, water and non-essentials as TVs and treadmills, but there was often no one to carry away the dead — not even those seen along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city on Temple. A10 the country’s eastern seaboard. The death toll is likely to rise as rescuers reach other affected areas. — Reuters BUSINESS Lending Less Banks in China lend less than expected in October with the 3-point plan for Shanghai’s future central bank prioritizing managing risk and controlling inflation over TOP NEWS/A3 boosting the economy. New yuan lending was 506.1 billion yuan (US$83 billion), short of analysts’ expectations for about 600 billion yuan. A16 United tops Iran allows SCOPE Bridge Tales Arsenal in extended The old Garden Bridge over the Suzhou Creek, known today as the Waibaidu Bridge, has seen yet another nuclear more than 100 years of joy and sorrow in Shanghai. Michelle Qiao tells the story of this Bund main- EPL twist monitoring stay, a city showpiece since it opened in 1908. B1 SPORTS/B8 WORLD/A9 A2 TOP NEWS Tuesday 12 November 2013 Shanghai Daily Index How sales added up Top News A2-A3 55 seconds: 100 million Metro A4-A5 Online shopping splurge yuan (US$16.4 million) Opinion A6 6 mins, 7 secs: 1 billion National A7-A8 8 hours, 42 mins: 12.1 World A9-A11 billion (more than 2012’s Business A12-A16 one for the record books Cyber Monday) Scope B1-B6 Ding Yining at the Alibaba Group’s Tmall and percent of the department store Sports B7-B8 13 hrs, 4 mins: 19.1 billion Taobao sites had exceeded that of price. Classifieds C1-C8 CHINESE shoppers spent billions (equal to last year’s 24-hour last year’s Cyber Monday, a simi- “I don’t care if it’s November Weather A7 online yesterday as they took total sales) lar event in the United States. 11 or December 12. As long as Hangzhou Special B3 advantage of discounts offered 13 hrs 39 mins: 20 billion Cyber Monday, the Monday they have sales promotions, I’m Crossword, on Single’s Day, a festival seized 21 hrs 20 mins: 30 billion after Thanksgiving in the United more than happy to participate,” Sudoku B6 on by online retailers to increase 24 hrs: 35.02 billion yuan States, recorded US$1.4 billion in she said. sales. TV B6 sales on November 26 last year. The line between online and November 11 was proclaimed There were a few glitches at offline retailers is gradually Market Research Co of 7,117 Single’s Day because of the num- Alibaba’s payment unit in the blurring, said Jason Yu, general web users last week, 73 percent ber of ones in the date and first first 10 minutes of yesterday’s manager of market research firm said they would buy from online appeared on student campuses, shopping spree with some orders Kantar Worldpanel China. vendors this year and spend an with young single people celebrat- declined and customers having “The offline retail presence of average of 1,078 yuan, 68 yuan ing the day by eating together, more than last year. Give us a call to refresh webpages and repeat apparel vendors such as Uniqlo is sending gifts or going shopping. the payment process to secure an indispensable part of the mas- In the past 12 months, online Editorial: Now a massive shopping ex- purchases. sive amount of sales of its online shoppers spent an average of (86-21) 5292 0884 travaganza, it took just 13 hours unit, and retailers need to create 4,185 yuan, according to media [email protected] for sales on just two online sites, Round trip to Sydney a multi-channel shopping experi- investment firm GroupM. Subscriptions: Taobao and Tmall, to fly past last Jenny Dong, a Shanghai office ence for consumers,” Yu said. The survey of 19,400 respon- (86-21) 962288 year’s overall total of 19.1 billion worker, was one of the lucky shop- A Kantar Worldpanel study dents in 279 cities across China (86-21) 5292 0024 yuan (US$3.1 billion). pers as she grabbed a round-trip showed that up to a third of con- reported a sharp rise in online subscription@ Yesterday’s final figure reached ticket to Sydney for 4,700 yuan, sumers are spending their money expenditure among third and shanghaidaily.com an astonishing 35.02 billion yuan a 30 percent discount on the nor- online this year instead of in tra- fourth tier cities with residents Supplements: as hundreds of thousands of con- mal price. ditional stores, Yu said. spending 31.8 percent more than (86-21) 5292 0242 sumers rushed to buy clothes, “The price was so attractive as The study found that of 1.1 tril- the previous year, or 3,768 yuan Advertising: furniture, home decoration items I’ve been longing for a vacation lion yuan in sales of fast moving each. The average amount spent (86-21) 5292 0242 at discount prices. to Australia and I was so excited consumer goods in the 52 weeks by first and second tier city resi- (86-21) 5292 1234 A common greeting among to successfully put the order the to September 6 this year, ex- dents was 4,378 yuan. ext. 618012 friends and colleagues yesterday very second after midnight,” she penditure through e-commerce advertising@ was “Bought anything today?” as said. channels jumped 45 percent Biggest transaction shanghaidaily.com they exchanged tales of bargains Sherry Chen, a postgraduate from a year earlier, much faster Privately-owned smartphone Marketing: or disappointing news of popular student, was among the many than the 9 percent annual growth maker Xiaomi Technology record- (86-21) 5292 0762 items sold out minutes after the consumers delighted to pick up in hypermarkets and supermar- ed the biggest transaction size of marketing spree began at midnight. a bargain online. Chen said she ket chains. all Tmall vendors this year with @shanghaidaily.com In under nine hours, turnover got a pair of boots on Tmall at 40 In an online survey by CTR sales amounting to 553 million y uan after it sold 110,000 Xiaomi 3 models in less than three min- Seven days a week utes along with other models and A worker moves Published by Shanghai smart TV sets. packages at a United Media Group It was also the first company YTO Express Shanghai Daily Address: on Tmall to break the 100 million 38F, 755 Weihai Road, distribution center yuan threshold. Shanghai 200041, China in the souther city Alibaba was the first company - of Guangzhou. to seize Single’s Day as an opᆽƥഏݡ൮ຶݡ੥׀ ރ ੓ Delivery portunity to woo consumers, companies but e-commerce sites, including nationwide 360Buy, Amazon.cn and 51Buy. were dealing com, also did big business. with millions 51Buy, the on li ne shoppi ng arm of packages of Internet company Tencent, Price 2 Yuan after this year’s estimated that both home appli- Single’s Day ance and electronic compliances online shopping transaction size yesterday would frenzy yesterday. surpass 100 million yuan. The State Post Besides the print issue, Shanghai-based general mer- Bureau estimates Shanghai Daily also offers chandise vendor Yihaodian. that delivery com, in which Walmart holds a new media products on companies will various platforms. controlling stake, said sales in handle more the first hour yesterday were 11 than 323 million times those of a week ago. packages this “We hope other e-commerce week. — Xinhua sites also did a good job as we Website iPhone iPad App App want Single’s Day to be a holiday for consumers and good chance Financial products proving popular for retailers to discover the unmet needs of shoppers,” Jack Android BlackBerry PlayBook Hu Xiaocen making such products more lu- selling wealth management prod- Phone App Phone App App Ma, founder and chairman of Ali- crative than traditional deposits.
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