Millennials drive Chinese online consumer boom

Business & Technology

Thanks to the busy lives of young shoppers, ecommerce sales of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) are growing seven times faster in China than in the U.S.

Lucas Niewenhuis

Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing. Read more

Twitter
LinkedIn

Suggested for you

The China Agenda

The China Agenda for October 30–November 5: Xiangshan Forum

Arran Hope
Business & Technology

U.S. restriction on Chinese use of open-source microchip tech would be hard to enforce

Eduardo Jaramillo

This is the state of generative AI in China

Paul Triolo

The China Agenda for August 7–13 — Taiwan’s vice president to New York

Arran Hope

Can Yonghui’s hot tech CEO turn the supermarket chain around?

Barry van Wyk

Can Alibaba’s six-ring circus succeed?

Ivy Yang