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JD.com Inc. (JD.com) announced today (September 24) that its Hong Kong office has opened at Tower Two, Times Square, leveraging on Hong Kong's international status to accelerate the company's globalisation process and promote its cross-border e-commerce platform, JD Worldwide, to international brands.
JD.com launched JD Worldwide in April this year. The Director of JD Worldwide, Mr Tony Qiu, said that the online platform combines purchases and sales functions, offering not only a fast and easy online shopping experience to customers, but also a sales channel for overseas vendors who want to reach JD.com's customers in the Mainland.
He said, "Hong Kong has been ranked as the world's freest economy for the 21st consecutive year. Hong Kong is an international city with a sophisticated capital market, efficient and transparent regulatory system, and a low and simple tax regime. It is an outstanding platform for Mainland companies to 'go global'. JD.com is the largest e-tailer in China and Hong Kong's well-established infrastructure networks will help boost our logistics and supply chain to help connect brands with our customers even more quickly. These are the reasons why we chose Hong Kong as our first anchor to 'go global'.
"Apart from providing the latest international market information for JD.com to develop our comprehensive globalisation strategy, the Hong Kong office will also help us attract overseas companies, bringing international brands and wider ranges of products to our 118 million customers."
The Director-General of Investment Promotion, Dr Simon Galpin, said, "Hong Kong is strategically located at the heart of Asia and is the doorstep to the Mainland. As an international trading hub, Hong Kong has already attracted many overseas companies to set up their sourcing operations in the city. Together with its world-class business infrastructure, international networks, deep pool of talent and related professional services support, Hong Kong will continue to play the role as a 'super-connector', assisting Mainland enterprises, such as JD.com, to use the city as the base to 'go global'."
About JD Worldwide
Established in December 2014 and operating since April 2015, JD Worldwide online shop offers more than a million products from dozens of countries, including the US, France, Australia, the UK, Japan, Korea, Germany and New Zealand, among other countries. Products range from health food to baby products, health care and cosmetics, clothing and footwear, gifts and bags, sports and outdoors products, consumer electronics and home appliances, among others. For more information, please visit: www.jd.hk.
About Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK)
InvestHK is the department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government established in July 2000 to attract foreign direct investment and support overseas and Mainland businesses to set up or expand in Hong Kong. It provides free advice and customised services to help businesses succeed in Hong Kong's vibrant economy. As at June 2015, InvestHK had assisted over 3,700 companies which have created more than 40,200 new jobs in the first year of operation or expansion and over HK$99 billion of investment. For more information, please visit www.investhk.gov.hk.
For event photos, please visit: www.flickr.com/photos/investhk/albums/72157656435894313.
Ends/Thursday, September 24, 2015
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