HANGZHOU Xinhua), November 11-Online shopping in China took off Friday as traders slashed prices by up to 50 percent to mark the “day of the single,” spurring millions of people go shopping.
Trading Volume was still on the increase as a 24-hour sales campaign, involves more than 2,000 brands and millions of commodities, will not end until midnight Saturday.
Chinese women and single men celebrate the single on November 11 as the date consists of a number “,” some are evocative of Chinese scholars–said “naked sticks.”
Although it started out as a joke on campus in the 1990s, Chinese festival official had the last few years developed into a real, a boon for business as smart traders begin sales promotions in the hope of improving the traditional period of gloomy retail.