Inside a massive chinese government ecommerce summit

Its true…my friends tell me this time of the year….so many conferences, trade fair. March and April I will be better prepared for next year…..back to back awards speeches (still working on that blog writeup from last week), product trade shows in hong kong and guangzhou, and tons of events and visitors in town.

Doug has been here a few days now and we were able to get lucky and have his trip aligned with a massive Chinese government e-commerce meeting. The main theme of the meeting seems to be on domestic (selling into China), but there is an afternoon session about export B2C e-commerce.

I felt like a superstar coming into the conference hotel lobby…..they welcomed me like ‘hello mai li ni, hello hello’ (my chinese name)….i thank weibo and chinese blogging for that.

The moderator escorted us into the front of the huge room that was jam packed conference hall that had already gotten underway.

Typing this blog real time from my VIP seat at the moring opening ceremony. Listening to 360buy.com VP speak on the future of chinese e-commerce, really need to improve my chinese to further benefit…

Next up listened to Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Amazon ,Fang Gan – he studied at UPENN in america .

Keep listening to keywords I know about USA e-commerce, and China e-commerce. Watching the powerpoint slides flipping by compariing big top 50 e-commerce websites in USA and trends in the past 10 years of America, and the booming and quickly rising Chinese domestic e-commerce following that same path now.

Its true….more and more Chinese export B2C sellers I network with are investing more and more time to also add a domestic Chinese e-commerce business in addition to their mature and established export model.

I am also investigating this more and more. Brand building, dual distribution in export (international, english language) e-commerce that I am experienced in and strong at, combined with the booming and growing chinese domestic market.

GLOBAL E-COMMERCE! Not china and usa ecommerce…..its about all countries having seamless and integrated buying and selling on a consumer level. This is the distruption opportunity.

It has to affect governments more. …as global commerce, e-commerce takes out borders acros countries….how can countries control product flow, money flow, going in and out of various countries, bank accounts, all around the globe.

Its fascinating to me. Technology and the internet taking down physical borders and challenging governments to adapt.

For those of you curious about this e-commerce meeting, here is the English agenda my trusted assistant, Amy, translated to English for the afternoon session that is relevant for the export Ecommerce from china.

Industrial Chain of Foreign Trade E-commerce

Time ： 13：30-17：00pm March 23th

Location： Shenzhen Hall (391m2 (22*17m)) , the Second Floor, Block A ,Shenzhen Wuzhou Guest House

13:30-13:40

Host’s introduction to the theme

Host:CEO of http://www.zhenxin365.cn/. Mr.Chai Hua

13:40-14:10

“Win business” approach in transnational trade

General Manager of greater China business development of Ebay, Mr Liang Kaibei

14:10-14:40

Change platforms to help the China foreign trade power to take off

Director of business development of PayPal Southern China ，Tommy Yang

14:40-15:10

High-end sharing：How traditional foreign trade companies do e-commerce

1、Do traditional foreign trade companies need to do e-commerce by it selves?
2、How can we do e-commerce if we don’t know e-commerce and have no team to help?

CEO of Ruiyi Website Mr.Li Peng

15:10-15:40

High-end sharing：Foreign trade e-commerce, how to do minority language markets well

1、How to develop minority language markets?
2、How to build a minority language team?

CEO of http://www.oasis-gmbh.de/ , Mr. Lu Haichuan

15:40-16:30

Interactive Topics：Foreign trade e-commerce companies -à how to build excellent supply chain?

1、Supply chain will be the key factor in future business.
2、how to build excellent supply chain (foreign trade e-commerce)?

Host：CEO of Yiwu Phoenix Forest Imp. & Exp. Co., Ltd ,Mr. Lin Zhiyong

1) The chairman of Baoan Chamber of e-Commerce, one of the ten persons to do business through internet top from Alibaba.Mr. Shen Xingzhong,

2)CEO of Ruiyi Website Mr.Li Peng

3) CEO of http://www.oasis-gmbh.de/ , Mr. Lu Haichuan

16:30-17:00

Interactive Topics

The difficulties and solutions to operation of foreign trade e-commerce——Sub-topics: 1) Overseas warehousing and fulfillment

2) Sources

3) Marketing

4) Talents

5) Payment

6) Logistics

Host：Senior expert of Business solutions division of Google China. Mr. Shi Lei

1) Director of Ebay Southern China,Mr. Li Hongxi

2) President of Business Development and New Ventures with SkuTouch Solutions, Doug Obershaw 3)VP of hiwto Michael Michelini 4)GM of Jiahong Logistics , Mr. Wu Dongsuo5) VP www.99bill.com, Mr.Bao Haiwei

 

Interactive Topics (March 23th)

16:30-17:00

Interactive Topics

The difficulties and solutions to operation of foreign trade e-commerce

Sub-topics:

1) Overseas warehousing and fulfillment

2) Sources

3) Marketing

4) Talents

5) Payment

6) Logistics

Host：Senior expert of Business solutions division of Google China. Mr. Shi Lei

1) Director of Ebay Southern China,Mr. Li Hongxi

2) President of Business Development and New Ventures with SkuTouch Solutions, Doug Obershaw 3)VP of hiwto Michael Michelini 4)GM of Jiahong Logistics , Mr. Wu Dongsuo5) VPof www.99bill.com, Mr.Bao Haiwei

 

Questions：

Below are the questions the Host Senior expert of Business solutions division of Google China. Mr. Shi Lei will ask

 

1) Please share the popular trend of products sku which are sold in ebay platform with us and how to choose the right products to sell?—–à Director of Ebay Southern China,Mr. Li Hongxi

2) How to provide( improve) user experience of overseas customers ?—–àPresident of Business Development and New Ventures with SkuTouch Solutions, Doug Obershaw

3) What kind of qualities should a sales person of a qualified foreign trade e-commerce enterprises have?—–à VP of hiwto Michael Michelini

4) What are the factors to be considered for Foreign trade e-commerce B2C companies when they choose small package(postal service), express, special line(like China-US airline), overseas warehouses?—à GM of Jiahong Logistics , Mr. Wu Dongsuo

5) Please share with us about payment preference and focus of different regions and countries and forecast of overseas mobile payment trends.– VP of www.99bill.com, Mr.Bao Haiwei

Notice: Hiwto staff will go to meeting location at 8:00am in the morning, so Doug,Mike and Amy will go to the Shenzhen Wuzhou Guest House by Taxi or Subway.( the time we start to head to the meeting location can be decided by you and Doug according to the transportation method you choose ,but Annie said it’s better for us to go there earlier to meet some people )
Convenient Transport, Pretty Surrounding
Located in Futian District, Shenzhen Wuzhou Guest House stands against Shenzhen Golf Course and faces CBD. It is only 10 minutes’drive from Shenzhen Citizen Center, Exhibition Center and OCT. It is 20-25 minutes’drive from the train station, Shekou Ferry and the airport. Huanggang and Futian

In the afternoon session Doug & I were in a forum to discuss the export B2C ecommerce challenges and opportunties in today’s market environment. The only 2 foreigners (non-Chinese) at the event, But later in the afternoon met Mihran CEO of dianboom.com a 3D chinese shopping mall platform.

After the speeches and talks we did some government relationship building. ..dinner and drinks.

Blogging from my phone now on the taxi ride home. Life in the fast lane…learning…networking.