The Internet plus strategy, which aims to integrate the Internet and industry while encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation, has given a strong impetus to the rapid growth of the Internet industry in Jiangsu through the enhanced innovation and application of the Internet technologies.
The Internet industry in Jiangsu has echoed the national strategy for the creation of a new engine for economic growth to release huge kinetic energy to become the propeller for the enhancement of the competitive edge and the transformation and upgrading.
7 Internet companies from Jiangsu made the national list of top 100 Internet companies, representing the largest number of Jiangsu-based Internet companies included in the list.
Suning Commerce, tuniu.com, ly.com, focuschina.com, woniu.com, 365.com and hao24.cn have ranked the national list of top 100 Internet companies, symbolic of the province’s leadging edge in commerce, manufacturing and online tourism.
Made-in-China.com, an online trade platform launched by Focus Technology 18 years ago, provides the most complete, accurate and up-to-date information on Chinese products and Chinese suppliers available anywhere on the web. Nowadays, Made-in-China.com is a world leading B2B portal, specializing in bridging the gap between global buyers and quality Chinese suppliers. It has now registered 9.7 million members around the world.
Benefiting from the advanced manufacturing and industrial economy in Jiangsu as well as the robust consumer demand, suning.com, focuschina.com, woniu.com and other flagship e-companies and platforms in Jiangsu have made inroads into their subdivided fields to emerge as the best players on the market.
The B2C platform of suning.com is now outshining its rivals on the domestic market in terms of the retail volumes. Tuniu.com and ly.com have emerged as the country’s leading players in package tours and sightseeing tours to nearby locations.
In the meantime, the e-commerce market is finding growing popularity in the traditional industrial sectors, agricultural sector and rural areas, online tourism and everyday services.
80 Internet companies in Jiangsu boast annual sales volume of more than 50 million yuan to emerge as the leading players in their respective fields.
New types of the Internet industry has witnessed full-fledged growth as is evidenced by the Internet plus education, the Internet plus medical service and the Internet plus agriculture, said Liu Xiangsheng, secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Internet Association.
The release of the guidelines on the accleration of the Internet industry last year by the provincial government has given a strong impetus to the sustained growth of the Internet industrial parks and group innovation parks which have in turn fueled the growth of the related industries.
In the 13th five-year plan period, Jiangsu will target the cultivation and growth of 100 Internet companies and platforms to garner 100 billion yuan of net profit from the development of the industrial scale of one trillion yuan.
（Editor / Qi Zhengdao ； Zhou Anqi）
