Cross-border eCommerce growing

New consumption: A worker makes clothes at a garment factory that supplies SHEIN, an eCommerce company in China. People in the 26 to 35 age group are the main consumers of imported products, accounting for nearly 50% of all age groups. — AFP

BEIJING: Having worked as a tech reporter for about a decade, I have witnessed firsthand the rapid growth of China’s cross-border eCommerce platforms and how the country’s consumers have shown increasing demand for premium imported and foreign-branded products in recent years.

Nowadays, I don’t have to visit brick-and-mortar stores. Online shopping suffices.