From: iResearch 97.1% Chinese luxury online shoppers are willing to share the website they purchase luxury goods from and the product info. Among these shoppers, 22.5% and 21.9% share via chatting and Weibo; sharing via forums, SNS, blog and luxury online shops are all over 10%.
来自艾瑞咨询的数据显示，97.1%的用户愿意与朋友分享奢侈品购物网站及其产品信息。愿意分享的用户群中，主要通过聚会聊天和微博来分享，其占比分别为22.5%和21.9%；通过论坛、SNS、博客和奢侈品购物网站分享的用户占比均高于10.0%。
SOURCE: Resonance China

Barcelona, January 24th.
Last week, during the International Tourism Fair (FITUR) held in Madrid, the city of Seville and the Chinese Embassy in Spain signed a cooperation agreement which proclaimed Seville as the first “Chinese Friendly City” in Europe.
Seville aims to give Chinese Tourists a “special treatment” within their staying, in the words of the mayor Juan Ignacio Zoido, Seville wants to “increase the number of Chinese tourists visiting the city by making them feel as if they were at home, turning the city into a priority destination for them”. The …

Writing History Backward
A lot of websites, articles and even some events around the world are celebrating the “Chinese Year 4170″ (sometimes 4169 or 4649) these days, claiming claim that this is counting the years since the Yellow Emperor came to power.
In fact in China years have been counted according to the dynasty and the emperor in power, starting with “1″ each time anew until the end of the imperial times exactly 100 years ago. The construction of a linear “Chinese” calendar when there has been in fact a cyclical is …

HONG KONG – It’s the season to load up on luxury goods in China.

For high-end retailers such as Gucci and Cartier, the Christmas-through-Chinese-New-Year’s season is one of the busiest retail periods of the year. In a culture where gift giving is second nature — where Louis Vuitton handbags may be given in hopes of securing a business contract or iPads handed out as prizes at company parties — the holidays give the Chinese another reason to buy.
“The Chinese love affair with gift giving is one …

In the past year, China has overtaken the UK to join the list of the world’s top five wine-consuming nations, according to new figures released by Vinexpo.

Results from the annual study by The International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR) show that between 2009 and 2010 consumption of still, light and sparkling wines grew by 33.4% in China (and Hong Kong included), leading to a total of 156.19m 9-litre bottles being consumed in 2011, knocking the UK into sixth position in the world-wine consumption market.
In …