In China during the third quarter, B2B (business to business) e-commerce web portals, generated an estimated total transaction value of 451 million yuan (US$56.6 million), while B2C (business to customer on-line shopping) and C2C (customer to customer) services had a transaction value of 945 million yuan and 6.456 billion yuan, respectively.
| China B2B market, 3Q06 |
| Total transaction value |
| Item |
Amount (million yuan) |
Q/Q |
| Domestic sales |
140 |
17.70% |
| Exports & imports |
311 |
16.00% |
| Aggregate |
451 |
16.50% |
| Top web portals by occupation of total transaction value |
| Alibaba (local) |
64.33% |
| Global Sources |
14.81% |
| HC360 (local) |
5.55% |
| China B2C market, 3Q06 |
| Total transaction value |
945 million yuan (Q/Q 4.1%, Y/Y 49%) |
| Total number of registered users |
91.99 million |
| Top web portals by occupation of the total number of users |
| DangDang (local) |
40.83% |
| Joyo (local) |
22.61% |
| 800Buy (local) |
2.66% |
| 7CV (local) |
1.48% |
| China C2C market, 3Q06 |
| Total transaction value |
6.456 billion yuan (Q/Q 13%) |
| Total number of merchandise items traded |
28.96 million (Q/Q 8.9%) |
| Total number of registered users |
26.70 million (Q/Q 20%) |
| Top web portals by occupation of the total number of users |
| Taobao (local) |
43.50% |
| eBay |
40.21% |
| PaiPai (local) |
14.16% |