Shopee Singapore launches China Marketplace

E-commerce platform Shopee Singapore has launched a China Marketplace.

Users can access it via a dedicated entry point on Shopee’s home page.

As well as offering a variety of products from China, the new marketplace offers inroads for sellers to tap into Shopee’s retail ecosystem in Singapore.

In a survey of local online shoppers, Shopee found that more than 60 per cent of respondents shop for products from China at least once a month. Almost 90 per cent indicated they shop from China more today as compared to five years earlier, citing product variety, convenience and cost savings as key reasons. Also, a Paypal report says an estimated half a million Singaporeans spent about S$1.2 billion on cross-border shopping.

For Shopee’s survey, 57 per cent of respondents said a pain point of cross-border shopping is high shipping fees, 39 per cent indicated language barrier, and 37 per cent listed poor user interface.

“We believe Shopee’s China Marketplace is the perfect answer,” says Shopee Singapore chief commercial officer/country head Zhou Junjie. “Shoppers will also enjoy free shipping and no agent fees for purchases, as well as easy access to millions of translated listings.”

China Marketplace features more than 1 million listings across such categories as women’s and children’s fashion, home and living, and kids’ apparel. Shoppers will also have direct access to China’s top sellers and leading lifestyle brands such as Xiaozhainv, Banfang Home, and Xi Home, which have gained significant popularity in Singapore over the past few years.

“Shopee’s China Marketplace has provided us with a platform to expand our reach to Singapore, and a way to directly engage with an overseas customer base,” said a spokesman for Chinese fashion retail Xiao Zhai Nv. “With strong logistics and integrated payments support from Shopee, we can focus our attention on other aspects of the business, including curating the best product assortment suited for the Singaporean consumer, and enhancing overall customer experience through provision of strong customer support.”

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