According to a number of outstanding Taobao and Amazon (the "Joyo") internal sources, the two companies have finalized a major, specific news will be announced.
This will also be following the brothers enterprises pay-establish cooperation and excellent relations, Taobao and the further integration of excellence. Taobao is now vigorously developing B2C businesses, the two sides in the field of business cooperation to the depth before the "Taobao incorporated Joyo" hearsay Set off new waves. Just last week, excellence has made it clear that the Taobao will be "incorporated", said the company very good performance, rate of growth has been impressive, there is no intention to sell.
At that time, Taobao have a noncommittal attitude. However, insiders said, do not want to see "incorporated excellence" in the news because it means that they need to recognize just the beginning of the B2C business, encountered an independent development can not overcome the challenges , And had to use the power of excellence.
Reliable sources said the two companies will be announced in early September of the cooperation. However, several sources did not disclose the details of cooperation. Insiders speculated that the two sides may try to open up the B2C Library, Taobao not even rule out the injection of excellence.
The source believes that despite the excellence of the relevant market in China claimed that the company responsible for the performance of health, but in fact they inject much-needed funds, because of its long-term loss of status.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Traders hurt by new e-commerce regulations
Xixi has to close her small but lucrative online shop on Taobao.com and is clearing stock by offering a large discount on all items.
The university student, who uses Xixi as an online name, is adhering to new e-commerce regulations that came into effect on Aug 1 in Beijing, which stipulates that online stores must now provide information such as a registered business address.
"My dormitory is a shared one, so it cannot serve that purpose, and I don't have a house in Beijing," she said.
The new regulations, issued by Beijing administration for industry and commerce last month, ask online traders to leave real information such as company names, business addresses, online shop names, IP addresses and contact details. It also requires traders to have a license before they start a business.
But the move is also making it more difficult to sell goods on the Internet, reducing the competitive edge that online traders have enjoyed over supermarkets and retail outlets in the past.
Basking in the low cost of e-business in a marketplace that boasts the world's largest Internet population, online traders in China have saved costs from not needing to rent houses or hire sales staff.
There are currently 150,000 business people in China who run full or part time online shops with a monthly income of more than 2,000 yuan.
But with the new regulations in place, many online shop owners have to rethink their businesses, an online trading website said. Ai Yongchun, a spokesperson for Shanghai-based Ebay.com.cn said she has received many enquires from hundreds of shop owners and online buyers.
"For shop owners in Beijing, they wonder whether our website will strictly implement the regulations, or they want to know how to register on our website," Ai said.
Under the new regulations, eBay, as well as other online shopping websites, must check business licenses of their contracted shops and set up records for every deal made. If service suppliers are found offering services to unlicensed online shops, they will also be punished.
Many online shoppers have also expressed their concerns that traders may pass on the costs incurred by the regulations to the end buyers.
But not all are complaining.
Xiong Yifu, a chief designer of Sh.dogoo.cn, an online trade platform exclusively for entity shops, said the regulations will help protect buyers' interest and consolidate a highly segmented marketplace, where tax evasion and IPR violations prevails.
"The only way to avoid fraud trade is to make it transparent to the public, and registration is much needed."
Source:Chinadaily
The university student, who uses Xixi as an online name, is adhering to new e-commerce regulations that came into effect on Aug 1 in Beijing, which stipulates that online stores must now provide information such as a registered business address.
"My dormitory is a shared one, so it cannot serve that purpose, and I don't have a house in Beijing," she said.
The new regulations, issued by Beijing administration for industry and commerce last month, ask online traders to leave real information such as company names, business addresses, online shop names, IP addresses and contact details. It also requires traders to have a license before they start a business.
But the move is also making it more difficult to sell goods on the Internet, reducing the competitive edge that online traders have enjoyed over supermarkets and retail outlets in the past.
Basking in the low cost of e-business in a marketplace that boasts the world's largest Internet population, online traders in China have saved costs from not needing to rent houses or hire sales staff.
There are currently 150,000 business people in China who run full or part time online shops with a monthly income of more than 2,000 yuan.
But with the new regulations in place, many online shop owners have to rethink their businesses, an online trading website said. Ai Yongchun, a spokesperson for Shanghai-based Ebay.com.cn said she has received many enquires from hundreds of shop owners and online buyers.
"For shop owners in Beijing, they wonder whether our website will strictly implement the regulations, or they want to know how to register on our website," Ai said.
Under the new regulations, eBay, as well as other online shopping websites, must check business licenses of their contracted shops and set up records for every deal made. If service suppliers are found offering services to unlicensed online shops, they will also be punished.
Many online shoppers have also expressed their concerns that traders may pass on the costs incurred by the regulations to the end buyers.
But not all are complaining.
Xiong Yifu, a chief designer of Sh.dogoo.cn, an online trade platform exclusively for entity shops, said the regulations will help protect buyers' interest and consolidate a highly segmented marketplace, where tax evasion and IPR violations prevails.
"The only way to avoid fraud trade is to make it transparent to the public, and registration is much needed."
Source:Chinadaily
People's Daily : Net purchase industry needs more policy support
At present, China's e-commerce a very complex, ranging from the size of the existing enterprises, but also individuals, and the individual seller in both transactions used, idle goods "audience", but also will venture or as a way to make a living selling full-time , And turnover is also a difference gap.
Website of a transaction data show that the year 2007, the turnover was 43.3 billion yuan points, an average of 3.6 billion yuan every month, to 1.5 million balance to the seller, the average monthly turnover of the seller only 2,300 yuan . Deductions such as those to occupy a considerable proportion of the turnover of enterprises seller, the seller of personal average monthly turnover is very low - only the seller of these individuals to large groups to achieve a huge volume of transactions.
Experts believe that the management of this group, should not adopt a "one size fits all" model, but should be treated differently. Lvbo hope that "should be of major enterprises, the big sellers, and sellers of the individual, there is no need of, to open up Fanghuo . "
"For the huge number of individual transactions, we believe that is still in training and development stage," a site for the case said that "We hope that countries in various fields will give more preferential policies to promote the rapid development of industry."
In fact, for the Beijing Commerce and Industry, issued by the shop's New Deal, most people believe that intention is good, in the long run, will help further standardize the market of e-commerce development. Is subject to dispute, an important reason for this is that At present the timing of the implementation of such provisions do not mature.
"China's current e-commerce is still in the early stages of development, premature regulation may limit the further development of the market," said Wave Jing Lin.
Lu Qi Chun also said that from the industrial point of view, the retail network belonging to a pilot, Chaoyang and emerging industries, speaking on industrial policy, more emphasis is needed to guide, promote, support, in this moderate on the basis of the norms. If management is too harsh or advance, but will play a negative role Bamiaozhuchang, resulting in the loss of vigor industrial development.
"The Government's guidance is also very important, for honest businesses can receive incentives, simple, it is illegal play, to be law-abiding Award", China's outstanding Amazon Wang Hanhua, president suggested that "the Government has to a Shoufu, the primary Award, the primary Fighting, creating a legitimate operators can benefit the market environment to encourage the integrity of e-commerce operators of the initiative. "
Employment sell online streaming
Because of its attempt to lower the threshold, the cost of inputs on the characteristics of the past few years, the Internet does not sell many becoming well-off people to achieve personal entrepreneurship and employment one of the ways, e-commerce enterprises as the employment pressure on society to share the results have started to appear.
Website of a transaction data show that the year 2007, the turnover was 43.3 billion yuan points, an average of 3.6 billion yuan every month, to 1.5 million balance to the seller, the average monthly turnover of the seller only 2,300 yuan . Deductions such as those to occupy a considerable proportion of the turnover of enterprises seller, the seller of personal average monthly turnover is very low - only the seller of these individuals to large groups to achieve a huge volume of transactions.
Experts believe that the management of this group, should not adopt a "one size fits all" model, but should be treated differently. Lvbo hope that "should be of major enterprises, the big sellers, and sellers of the individual, there is no need of, to open up Fanghuo . "
"For the huge number of individual transactions, we believe that is still in training and development stage," a site for the case said that "We hope that countries in various fields will give more preferential policies to promote the rapid development of industry."
In fact, for the Beijing Commerce and Industry, issued by the shop's New Deal, most people believe that intention is good, in the long run, will help further standardize the market of e-commerce development. Is subject to dispute, an important reason for this is that At present the timing of the implementation of such provisions do not mature.
"China's current e-commerce is still in the early stages of development, premature regulation may limit the further development of the market," said Wave Jing Lin.
Lu Qi Chun also said that from the industrial point of view, the retail network belonging to a pilot, Chaoyang and emerging industries, speaking on industrial policy, more emphasis is needed to guide, promote, support, in this moderate on the basis of the norms. If management is too harsh or advance, but will play a negative role Bamiaozhuchang, resulting in the loss of vigor industrial development.
"The Government's guidance is also very important, for honest businesses can receive incentives, simple, it is illegal play, to be law-abiding Award", China's outstanding Amazon Wang Hanhua, president suggested that "the Government has to a Shoufu, the primary Award, the primary Fighting, creating a legitimate operators can benefit the market environment to encourage the integrity of e-commerce operators of the initiative. "
Employment sell online streaming
Because of its attempt to lower the threshold, the cost of inputs on the characteristics of the past few years, the Internet does not sell many becoming well-off people to achieve personal entrepreneurship and employment one of the ways, e-commerce enterprises as the employment pressure on society to share the results have started to appear.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Taobao mall launch Safari browser version
Taobao version of Safari recently launched Taobao Shopping Mall, users in the Safari browser, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch will be here on the effect.
Taobao mall Safari version of the address of the visit http://i.mall.taobao.com. In the non-Safari browser to access the site to direct Jump Taobao Home Shopping Mall. The Safari browser, Safari will show version of the Home. Taobao currently only available in store Safari browser and a search function, not to buy and pay.
According to China Mobile closed the data show that mobile network has more than 400,000 iPhone. Compared to other mobile phone, iPhone's online experience better than many. Earlier, including video-sharing site, six more than the site launched a version of Safari. The industry believes that the version of Safari Taobao launched Taobao mall, mainly through mobile devices access to traffic, train groups of mobile phone users.
Taobao mall Safari version of the address of the visit http://i.mall.taobao.com. In the non-Safari browser to access the site to direct Jump Taobao Home Shopping Mall. The Safari browser, Safari will show version of the Home. Taobao currently only available in store Safari browser and a search function, not to buy and pay.
According to China Mobile closed the data show that mobile network has more than 400,000 iPhone. Compared to other mobile phone, iPhone's online experience better than many. Earlier, including video-sharing site, six more than the site launched a version of Safari. The industry believes that the version of Safari Taobao launched Taobao mall, mainly through mobile devices access to traffic, train groups of mobile phone users.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Joyo Amazon denies Taobao acquisition rumor
This morning, the Internet to spread such a message, "Taobao inside," said Taobao excellence has been acquired, and that specific information will be in on September 1 in the major media reports announced.
However, when reporters sought confirmation to the outstanding issue of the Amazon, but denied the other side, the company said no would be "incorporated" or the intention to sell.
"We have very good company performance, has been at the rate of three-digit growth, there is no intention to sell." Excellence Amazon China Ministry of market officials said.
Some commentators believe that Taobao B2C business is now vigorously promoting period, no reason to disrupt his progress through the acquisition. So this should be false rumors.
According to excellence of the staff of the Amazon, the rumors may be paid-with an excellent cooperation of the Amazon, that is, pay-as Amazon's excellent means of online payment. Alibaba is not difficult because of the payment of the outstanding Amazon-the detailed user information, so the general large-scale e-commerce sites and pay-to carry out such cooperation, thus leading to the Amazon and Alibaba excellent "relations between the dubious" rumors.
However, when reporters sought confirmation to the outstanding issue of the Amazon, but denied the other side, the company said no would be "incorporated" or the intention to sell.
"We have very good company performance, has been at the rate of three-digit growth, there is no intention to sell." Excellence Amazon China Ministry of market officials said.
Some commentators believe that Taobao B2C business is now vigorously promoting period, no reason to disrupt his progress through the acquisition. So this should be false rumors.
According to excellence of the staff of the Amazon, the rumors may be paid-with an excellent cooperation of the Amazon, that is, pay-as Amazon's excellent means of online payment. Alibaba is not difficult because of the payment of the outstanding Amazon-the detailed user information, so the general large-scale e-commerce sites and pay-to carry out such cooperation, thus leading to the Amazon and Alibaba excellent "relations between the dubious" rumors.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Online traders launch 'Phelpsean' bid for gold
Beijing - Online traders are racing to cash in on the Beijing Olympics by selling items related to gold medal winners, ranging from a $1 million price tag on the domain name "Phelpsean" to $4,000 for five pairs of basketballers' shoes.
US swimmer Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at Beijing making him the most successful Olympian ever, was the hottest target for dealers on Internet auction sites.
Karen Bard, a spokeswoman for eBay, said the number of items related to 23-year-old Phelps had soared 738 percent in the past 30 days.
"One of the highest priced sold items was an autographed Olympic Speedo swim cap from a special appearance he did in Baltimore in 2004. It sold for $645," she told Reuters via email.
She said 19,755 Olympic items had been sold in the past 90 days with the top price of $6,000 paid for a ticket to the Olympics opening ceremony in the Bird's Nest stadium on Aug 8.
Ahead of the Games ending on Sunday, the most expensive item on offer related to Phelps was the sale of all domains -- such as .com, .org, .us, .info, .tv, .mobi -- for the word "Phelpsean."
Seller Wolfram Gauglitz, a corporate consultant from Dallas, Texas, said he derived the word from Herculean and suggested it meant having enormous strength, courage, or size of or pertaining to Michael Phelps or his incredible accomplishments.
"Since Hercules is the Greek ideal for strength and courage, and was said to have founded the Olympic games to honour Zeus, 'Phelpsean' was a no-brainer," said Gauglitz who snapped up the domain names on the day Phelps won his eighth gold.
"Do I think phelpsean.com will fetch $1 million? I think it's worth far more than $1 million to someone out there."
Bard wasn't so sure but the sale was valid under eBay rules.
"As far as the URL in question, it is not in violation of our policies. However, it is certainly a very steep price for someone to potentially pay," she said.
One seller on Chinese auction site Taobao.com was asking 12,000 yuan ($1,750) for Phelps's signature.
Another was seeking 10,000 yuan for a ball signed by all the members of the Chinese women's volleyball team who won gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics but lost in the semi-finals in Beijing.
Five pairs of signed basketball shoes worn by US players LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Paul in practices leading up to the Beijing Games were up for sale with a suggested price of $4,000.
"These were obtained by a source close to the players while they were in Vegas practising," wrote the seller.
But not all online sales relating to Beijing athletes were to benefit sellers with some being sold for charity.
Humanitarian group Right To Play is auctioning a range of memorabilia donated by Olympians to raise money for the group that promotes sport as a tool for children's development in poverty-stricken countries and nations in conflict.
Items for auction include a signed flag bearer's sash from the opening ceremony from Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden and a signed Swiss tennis uniform from Timea Bacsinszky.
Source:Chinadaily
US swimmer Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at Beijing making him the most successful Olympian ever, was the hottest target for dealers on Internet auction sites.
Karen Bard, a spokeswoman for eBay, said the number of items related to 23-year-old Phelps had soared 738 percent in the past 30 days.
"One of the highest priced sold items was an autographed Olympic Speedo swim cap from a special appearance he did in Baltimore in 2004. It sold for $645," she told Reuters via email.
She said 19,755 Olympic items had been sold in the past 90 days with the top price of $6,000 paid for a ticket to the Olympics opening ceremony in the Bird's Nest stadium on Aug 8.
Ahead of the Games ending on Sunday, the most expensive item on offer related to Phelps was the sale of all domains -- such as .com, .org, .us, .info, .tv, .mobi -- for the word "Phelpsean."
Seller Wolfram Gauglitz, a corporate consultant from Dallas, Texas, said he derived the word from Herculean and suggested it meant having enormous strength, courage, or size of or pertaining to Michael Phelps or his incredible accomplishments.
"Since Hercules is the Greek ideal for strength and courage, and was said to have founded the Olympic games to honour Zeus, 'Phelpsean' was a no-brainer," said Gauglitz who snapped up the domain names on the day Phelps won his eighth gold.
"Do I think phelpsean.com will fetch $1 million? I think it's worth far more than $1 million to someone out there."
Bard wasn't so sure but the sale was valid under eBay rules.
"As far as the URL in question, it is not in violation of our policies. However, it is certainly a very steep price for someone to potentially pay," she said.
One seller on Chinese auction site Taobao.com was asking 12,000 yuan ($1,750) for Phelps's signature.
Another was seeking 10,000 yuan for a ball signed by all the members of the Chinese women's volleyball team who won gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics but lost in the semi-finals in Beijing.
Five pairs of signed basketball shoes worn by US players LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, and Chris Paul in practices leading up to the Beijing Games were up for sale with a suggested price of $4,000.
"These were obtained by a source close to the players while they were in Vegas practising," wrote the seller.
But not all online sales relating to Beijing athletes were to benefit sellers with some being sold for charity.
Humanitarian group Right To Play is auctioning a range of memorabilia donated by Olympians to raise money for the group that promotes sport as a tool for children's development in poverty-stricken countries and nations in conflict.
Items for auction include a signed flag bearer's sash from the opening ceremony from Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden and a signed Swiss tennis uniform from Timea Bacsinszky.
Source:Chinadaily
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Alipay Enters China's Telecommunications Payment Sector
According to the agreement, China Netcom's users in Xuzhou will be able to pay the charges to China Netcom via the platform of Alipay. The cooperation between Alipay and China Netcom Xuzhou branch will become an experimental field for the opening of e-payment system in Jiangsu's telecommunications industry.
A representative from China Netcom Xuzhou branch says that for users, Alipay offers a more convenient and rapid payment platform and for China Netcom, it provides more functions, including instant receiving and cash withdrawing, which are convenient for financial management. The company will continue to perfect its payment platform and to cultivate users' payment habits, so as to increase the use of Alipay's online payment services.
With the growth of the B2B, B2C and C2C industries, online payment has become an indispensable payment channel for the online consumer groups.
Neither company has revealed specific profit share or compensation aspects of this new relationship.
Source:Chinatechnews
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Online shopping gets popular with ordinary folks
By Fan Huiwen
In recent years, the e-shopping via Internet has been developed rapidly and has become an innegligible component in the e-business. E-shopping is a kind of online purchasing behavior of terminal purchasers, and consumers' shopping occupies most.
The fast development of e-shopping indicates that the core of e-shopping begins to transfer from B2B (business to business) to B2C (business to consumer) and C2C (consumer to consumer), and the e-shopping shows a new trend of popularization.
For most of e-shopping, commodities will be chosen online, purchase orders will be signed and commodities will be delivered to customers' doorsteps via logistics distribution, so the transaction cost is low, the e-shopping is convenient and prompt, and consumers will save the time of looking around marketplaces. As there is no need to rent storefronts for online shops, the operating cost is low and the price of commodities is relatively low, which enable purchasers to enjoy benefits. In large cities with a relatively high Internet penetration rate, e-shopping is more and more favored by people and becomes a fashionable life style quickly.
For the moment, China's e-shopping market is provided with the following characteristics: Firstly, the e-shopping scale keeps enlarging. According to related statistics, by the end of December 2007, the proportion of netizens' online shopping in China is 22.1 percent, and the purchaser population achieves 46.4 million. And the online shopping proportion of such netizens with Master degree or above has reached 56.5 percent. The scale of e-shopping market is RMB56.1 billion yuan with the growth rate of 117.4 percent year on year. This indicates that the penetration of Internet drives a rapid growth of e-shopping. E-shopping websites keep improving transaction modes, and consumers' acceptance degree to the e-shopping is enhanced increasingly.
Secondly, the transaction amount of B2C and C2C accounts for the most part of the total transaction amount of e-shopping. E-shopping contains the purchasing of terminal consumers and the commodity transfer between consumers, as well as the online shopping of part of manufacturing operators. In 2007, the transaction amount of China's C2C e-shopping hit RMB51.8 billion yuan, up 125.2 percent than the one in 2006. The transaction amount of taobao.com took up 83.6 percent of C2C e-shopping, paipai.com ranked No.2 with the transaction amount of 8.7 percent, and eachnet.com ranked No.3. In 2007, the transaction amount of China's B2C e-shopping hit RMB4.3 billion yuan, up 92.3 percent than the one in 2006. The transaction amount of dangdang.com ranked No.1 with the transaction proportion of 83.6 percent, joyo.com ranked No.2, and 139shop.com No.3. This illustrates that consumers' purchasing takes up a main position in the e-shopping.
Thirdly, the commodity scope of e-shopping is expanding increasingly. The early joyo.com and dangdang.com mainly operated books and video products. In recent years, their operation scope has been enlarged continuously, till now; joyo.com has expanded its commodity scope to 20 classifications and more than 700 thousand types. Except selling books, magazines and videos, dangdang.com is also involved in selling mobile phones, cosmetics, garments, shoes and hats, whose commodities have been rich in variety. The commodities of e-shopping have also broken the restriction of only providing tangible commodities, and expanded to digital products and services, so many professional websites supply the commodities in terms of digital content and network service.
Additionally, female consumer products occupy an important position in the e-shopping market. With the gradual transferring from e-shopping commodities to life consumer products, such female consumer products as cosmetics and garments become well-selling commodities. According to the statistics, the transaction amount of e-shopping of Shanghai netizens in 2007 is RMB7.01 billion yuan, ranking No.1 in China. And the commodities purchased by the Shanghai e-shopping group most are such female beauty supplies as cosmetics and perfume. Meanwhile, the commodities with the greatest quantity growth of e-shopping in Shanghai are female underwear and lady-used cases and bags; these data throw out female e-shopping group's scale of purchasing power. The female consumer product market is being paid more and more attention to by e-shopping websites.
With the popularity of Internet in the future, China's e-shopping transaction amount will keep a rapid growth, C2C will keep being the main driving power for the e-shopping growth, the commodity variety of e-shopping will be enriched further, and the attraction of online shopping communities to network subscribers will be stronger and stronger.
According to the research of CCID Consulting, by 2010, China's e-shopping transaction amount will be close to RMB400 billion yuan with the annual growth rate of above 60 percent. The driving factors of the rapid development of e-shopping include: a fast economic growth and a further improved residents' consuming level; Internet popularization and netizen increase in the second and third line cities; gradual classification expansion of e-shopping commodities; the participation of such new operators as baidu.com; the improved safety environment in terms of payment, logistics and online shopping, etc.
At the same time, on the present basis, the classification of e-shopping commodities will expand to all commercial fields. Seen from the hotspot and the trend in e-shopping market, the classification of e-shopping commodities will be enriched on the basis of such classifications as books and magazines, videos and music, mobile phones, cosmetics, and garments. The online reservation for various commodities and services just start to expand. The online group purchasing develops rapidly. Such commodities as consumer durables (such as autos), consumer products with a huge amount (such as houses) and luxury products (such as diamonds) also start to play important roles in e-shopping. These commodities will show an obvious elevation function for the sales volume of e-shopping.
What's more important is that the attraction of online shopping communities to network subscribers becomes stronger and stronger. Investigation indicates that more and more online consumers have begun to conduct transaction from purely via B2C platform to via C2C platform, and the trend of B2C subscribers' transferring to the C2C community is evident.
So to speak, the e-shopping represents the development orientation of commodity transaction in the information era, and China's e-shopping is very promising.
(The author is Director of Informatization Research Center of China Center for Information Industry Development)
Source:Ce.cn
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Baidu Online C2C Business Started Invite Users
Baidu brewing for nearly a year C2C services will soon online, Baidu has begun to invite users to participate in online. Baidu received an invitation e-mail users that need to register to participate in online Baidu HI (IM) account.
Baidu C2C market Ministry confirmed the news and said that the recent launches online. But she did not disclose more specific timetable.
Baidu C2C market Ministry confirmed the news and said that the recent launches online. But she did not disclose more specific timetable.
Friday, August 8, 2008
Online shops to get business licence from August 1
Online businesses which make a profit in Beijing will be subject to the government's business-licence regulation from August 1, which would make the national capital the first to pilot the e-commerce regulation in China.
"The administration will use technical measures to trace online shops that evade the regulation after the deadline, and close their online links," said Wang Jing, the official in charge of special transaction monitoring with the municipal administration of industry and commerce.
The administration issued a notice in June, requiring online shops to get business licences before August 1.
It defined online taxpayers as those shops with online registration based in Beijing and making profits through Internet sales.
Beijing's new regulation excepted those online shops selling or exchanging personal use items from the real-name business registration, said Wang.
China's e-commerce has been on a fast track in recent years. Leading e-commerce portal Taobao.com saw transactions rise to 43.3 billion yuan ($6.3 billion) in 2007.
The government's online business regulation, however, has been criticized by e-businesses.
Irritated shop owner nicknamed Duguqiubai said he would rather close his shop than get a business licence.
"Most online shops are small businesses that earn meagre profits. Taxes would devour our small profit margin," said the netizen, who has a shop on Taobao.com selling mobile phones and phone cards.
Another man, with the online name of Family at Lin'an, said that the regulation's deadline would be a deadline with real meaning for his family, whose sole income came from the online store he opened. He said he is a handicapped man, who has a little hope of being employed.
The administration official Wang said that the government has been fully aware of the Internet outcry, but would not make changes to the regulation.
"Online shops are after all private businesses. They should be treated equally with other private businesses," Wang said.
Professor Tao Hong, chairman of the research center of commerce under the Beijing University of Industry and Commercial, was in favor of the new regulation. He expected it to help clean the e-commerce market.
But other scholars like Kan Kaili, a professor with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, held the opposite view.
Kan said that the authority would have troubles to put the regulation into practice, since there are neither borders nor regions on the Internet. Online shops can easily change registration places to evade the regional regulation.
Via:Chinadaily
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