1. Meesho surpassed Amazon and Flipkart with over 100 million downloads in the first half of the year

On October 26, according to data from the application analysis company Apptopia, the Indian social e-commerce platform Meesho was the most downloaded shopping application in the world in the first half of this year. About 127 million people downloaded the application. The application is only available in India. In the same period, Amazon and flipkart recorded 81 million and 50 million downloads respectively. Last month, the Meesho app had more than 1.4 billion visits in India, Flipkart had 875 million visits, and Amazon had 570 million.

Shoppers say the Meesho platform is easy to use, has a wide selection of products and is affordable. At the same time, Meesho supports users to pay in cash when the goods arrive at their doorstep, and the order is shipped free of charge with no minimum limit. In addition, the platform allows sellers to set profit margins on items according to their needs.

2. Cargo Lala upgrades the "Safe Transport" program, drivers can customize their frequent running routes independently

According to news on October 26, following the launch of the "Safe Transport" driver protection plan on September 1 this year, Huolala launched a series of product functions and measures to protect the rights and interests of drivers, such as freight insurance, and crackdown on fake bills. Product functions such as order-listening preference, floating window, and order-taking detection have been launched, and the driver experience has been comprehensively improved through technical means.

According to reports, since the second half of this year, Huo Lala has launched an upgraded version of the "listing preference" product in nearly 50 cities including Dongguan, Hangzhou, and Wuhan, adding new functions such as frequent running routes and mileage preference. Driver masters can set the frequently-running routes and frequently-go places on the “Listening Preferences” interface of the Carlala Driver APP, and can also independently choose the distance from the loading point to the unloading point. The subsequent upgraded version of the "Listening Preferences" function will be launched in other cities across the country one after another.

3. China International E-Commerce Center: In the first half of the year, rural online retail sales reached 975.93 billion yuan

On October 26, the China International E-Commerce Center released the "China Rural E-Commerce Development Report (2021-2022)" at the 6th China (Lishui) Rural E-Commerce Conference. The report shows that in 2021, the national rural online retail sales will be 2.05 trillion yuan, accounting for 15.66% of the national online retail sales, a year-on-year increase of 11.3%. In the first half of 2022, the national rural online retail sales reached 975.93 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%. Among them, the online retail sales of physical commodities in rural areas was 890.44 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.6%. The report believes that the standardized development of new formats such as live streaming has great potential, rural e-commerce B2B will become an important direction for the transformation and upgrading of rural e-commerce, and infrastructure construction such as production warehouses will usher in new development. Rural e-commerce will play an important role in the county business system, helping rural revitalization and industrial digitization.