ChinaTalk

ChinaTalk

Educatiebeleid

Uden, NB 338 volgers

We provide teaching in culture & language, lectures and e-learning on digital innovation and study tours.

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ChinaTalk provides transfer of knowledge in two main categories: - Chinese language and culture trainings and education - lectures. e-learning and workshops and study trips regarding digital China These services are offered for students & schools, companies and events.

Branche
Educatiebeleid
Bedrijfsgrootte
2-10 medewerkers
Hoofdkantoor
Uden, NB
Type
Particuliere onderneming
Opgericht
2014
Specialismen
e-commerce in China, social media in China, Chinese language training, Chinese cultural training en New Retail

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    Profiel weergeven voor Jessica Sun (孙慧), afbeelding

    Teacher of Chinese Language and Culture

    This morning, I received an email from my student Erryn, from OSG Piter Jelles It simply said, “2025见!你是一个非常好老师😊” (means “See you in 2025. You are a wonderful teacher!”). That message truly made my day, and it made me reflect on all my students and the joy they’ve brought into my life throughout 2024. I feel so grateful for the opportunity to work with students from all walks of life—each with their own unique motivations for learning Chinese. Stijn Kamphuis recently shared how comfortable he feels using Chinese in China, connecting with business contacts, and how his language skills have truly supported his career. With Amy van Boxel and Salvador de Vaan, we’ve been reading their daughter’s favorite book "Raad eens hoeveel ik van je hou" in the Chinese version, and even recreating their family’s traditional Christmas dishes into a Chinese menu. With Erryn, he’s been working on writing the Sinterklaas story in Chinese. With Linda Stoffers, we’ve been practicing the most useful phrases she’ll need for her business trips to China, while exploring the cultural differences and nuances in international business. Jonny Gausel has been preparing his speech for the China International Import Expo, and I’m thrilled that he was even interviewed by CCTV (China Central Television). Suzanne van Willige and I have had deep discussions about AI, GDPR, and the challenges of navigating cultural differences. With Myrthe Pardoen, we’re preparing for her AIPPI Intellectual Property conference in Hangzhou! With Robert, more life philosophy! And with my younger students, we’ve been bringing stories to life through character paintings. Looking back on 2024, there were some challenging moments, but there were also so many more moments of growth, learning, and self-reflection. After living in the Netherlands for 11 years and participating in various coach trainings, I feel more connected to myself—understanding my strengths and where my heart lies. In addition to teaching Chinese, I began teaching Dutch to Chinese living in the Netherlands. I wanted to offer them the support I wish I could had when moving to the Netherlands. The heartfelt feedback I’ve received from my students has been incredibly moving and energizing. It’s reminded me why I do this work. Meanwhile, the other half of ChinaTalk, Ed Sander (艾德), has been working incredibly hard to provide nuanced insights into China’s e-commerce landscape: keynote presentations, reports for Tech Buzz China, and interviews to TV stations, radio programs, and magazines. Ed has also led study tours for professionals to China. In collaboration with K5 - Future Retail, for a group of German CEOs, the ChinaTechTrip tour earned an outstanding average rating of 9.5 out of 10! We deeply appreciate the trust and collaboration we’ve built with all our partners and students, and we’re excited to continue our work together in 2025 and beyond! Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a healthy and prosperous 2025!

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    THIS WAS CHINATALK IN 2024 It's the time of the year where, besides doing a lot of admin stuff, you look back on the past 12 months that have flown by again ... It was a year mainly about Temu. I spent most of the year researching the Chinese webshop for Tech Buzz China, resulting in seven elaborate reports and discussing the company at length here on LinkedIn. (But it wasn't just about Temu; I also extensively reported developments in China's domestic e-commerce and new retail.) I've done almost weekly interviews with TV stations, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and branch organisations on the Temu topic, hoping to share more balanced and nuanced knowledge about the company. I still think it is largely misunderstood and underestimated. While there is a lot to criticise about Temu, much nonsense is still being spread that diverts our eyes from the things we should really be paying attention to ... As such, I was delighted to be able to distinguish fact from fiction in keynote presentations for BecomSCORE!RetailTrendsneuland - Büro für Informatik, and several in-company sessions. These presentations were often called 'eye-openers,' proving how limited our knowledge about Chinese e-commerce companies is here in Europe. Therefore, I was really happy to take a fun group of people from the Netherlands and Belgium to China in April. However, my absolute highlight of 2024 was, without a doubt, the cooperation with K5 - Future Retail. We worked together on a keynote in Berlin and a ChinaTechTrip study tour with a fantastic group of German CEOs and senior managers who were incredibly eager to learn and share their insights with their networks on LinkedIn. For 2025, we have several study tours and keynotes already lined up. I'm already researching for the first of next year's reports for Tech Buzz China (which will include an update on instant retail, the progress of TikTok Shop and more Temu insights). Meanwhile, the other half of ChinaTalk, Jessica Sun (孙慧), has been building her private Mandarin lessons and recently launched Dutch starter lessons for Chinese migrants. To read more details about what we've done this year and our plans for 2025, check out this post: https://lnkd.in/eSivpCJW For now, we would like to wish all of our LinkedIn followers, those who were in our audiences, read our articles, and watched our videos, but especially those who put so much trust in us and cooperated with us or went on a study tour with us, a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year!

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    Will they give Amazon Haul lotta love? An in-depth look at Amazon’s ‘low price zone’ and challenges and expectations In June this year, Amazon gathered a group of merchants in a meeting about a new project that, at the time, was referred to as Amazon’s ‘low-price zone’. Attendees were kindly requested not to take pictures and share them online. Of course, this is just what happened, and before long, the internet was a-buzz with discussions about ‘Amazon’s answer to Temu’. The project launched just before Black Friday under the ‘Amazon Haul’ moniker. At Tech Buzz China, we analysed interviews with various experts close to Amazon to gain more insights into this new initiative. Are they bullish or bearish about Haul? And what challenges lie ahead? You can read all about it in our extensive new report at Tech Buzz China. Visit the Tech Buzz China page for the link to the article.

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    WHAT DO THESE TWO COMPANIES HAVE IN COMMON? The two warehouses you see in this video are so-called front-end warehouses. These companies, Meituan Xiao Xiang and Dingdong Maicai, are two competitors using one of the three business models of instant retail you will find in China. They deliver food products (including fresh produce) from these warehouses within one hour to consumers in a radius of 3 km. I have written extensively about them for Tech Buzz China in 2023 and am planning an update in early 2025. I also spend one of the masterclasses during our ChinaTechTrip tour explaining their business models. We normally aren't allowed to enter the warehouses, where cameras monitor staff; the warehouse manager could get in trouble. But I normally make a quick stop at one of these places anyway. I find it amusing that these two competitors are often located right next door to each other and that there are always two armies of couriers waiting in front of them. 'The Meituan business seems to be better', one of the participants of our recent ChinaTechTrip with K5 - Future Retail told me. 'Why?' I asked. 'Because it has more couriers waiting'. 'Well, maybe that proves that their business is actually worse than Dingdong's', I said. 😉 Besides being in the same market segment and located right next to each other, what else do these two have in common? They both have recently started business abroad. Meituan is launching Xiao Xiang in Saudi Arabia after first launching its food delivery business under the name Keeta there. Dingdong has also started operating in Saudi Arabia, selling pre-prepared meals, fresh food, refrigerated food, and general merchandise. Yes, folks, what happens in China does not stay in China ... Footage taken by guligo jia during the recent K5 - Future Retail study tour. For information on our 2025 tours, check out ChinaTechTrip.

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    TO BETTER UNDERSTAND CHINA YOU NEED TO 'FEEL' CHINA Our philosophy at ChinaTechTrip is that you can't get to know China by only following our masterclasses and visiting companies, the 'business stuff' so to speak. Context is highly important, so we try to emerge our groups as much as possible in daily Chinese life, away from the hotels and meeting rooms. After all, you need to feel the Chinese life to understand their business better. Besides visiting shopping malls and authentic cuisine, we always try to include one or two parks in our 'city walks'. Especially on sunny days and when the flowers bloom, they are an oasis of rest in the hustle and bustle of the mega cities. But the parks are also places where you can see how retired people and young families spend their time. Depending on the time of day, you can see people practising Tai Chi, stretching on exercising equipment, playing cards or other games or just generally enjoying each other's company and the flowers, trees, lakes and pagodas. A visit is easy to arrange, and if you have the right park there's often interesting stories connected to it. But whether it's Ritan Park in Beijing or People's Park in Shanghai, parks are often the places where you are reminded of the good things in life and how we're all just humans after all. So when in Beijing ... The footage below was taken by guligo jia during our recent tour with K5 - Future Retail. For information on our 2025 tours, check out ChinaTechTrip.

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JD’S HEMA (FRESHIPPO)-CLONE 7FRESH? On our ChinaTechTrip study tours, we used to visit both Alibaba’s Hema (Freshippo) and JD’s 7Fresh stores. When new concepts emerged, we dropped the 7Fresh visit since our travellers said it was too similar to Hema, and my research for Tech Buzz China showed it was not as successful. Lianshang just did an interesting analysis of the different paths of the two store + warehouse model supermarket chains. Here’s a summary. Some strategies of 7Fresh: ▶️ Positioning: high-quality fresh products, integrated online and offline operation model (delivery within 3 km in ~30 min). ▶️ Data-driven: use JD.com's big data analysis to build a portrait of the target users, accurately locate user consumption, and select the most suitable product pool from the massive SKUs of JD.com. ▶️"Black technology" in stores, such as magic mirror traceability, face payment, self-service checkout, etc. When 7Fresh launched in 2018, JD claimed it would open 50 stores that year and 1,000 in 3-5 years. It reached 10 in 2018 and has about 70 now. Hema has over 400. Possible reasons for the relative lack of success: ▶️ 7Fresh launched 2 years later than Hema.          ▶️ JD faced challenges with a lack of overall profitability; high investments offline were too risky ▶️ Lack of differentiation from competitors (precisely what our tour participants also mentioned). After 2019, 7Fresh tried various new concepts, including small community supermarkets (7Fresh Life) and stores targeted at office workers. The chain also implemented various optimizations, global sourcing and cooperation in the retail market. However, during the rapid changes during the pandemic, 7Fresh failed to seize new opportunities and other instant retail models, like Dingdong’s front-end warehouses, grabbed the market. 7Fresh decided to focus on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Greater Bay Area (Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao). It improved order-picking efficiency and, thereby, delivery speed and flattened the organisation structure. By the end of 2021, GMV had increased to RMB 3 billion, several times higher than the (very low base!) in 2020. However, the chain was still lacking differentiation... Meanwhile, since 2018, 7Fresh changed CEOs three times, and none seemed to have a clear long-term development plan, while some good ideas fell by the wayside and never got fully implemented … 7Fresh opened its first store in Shanghai this year. Like Sam's Club, it also launched front-end warehouses (‘satellites’). So, after copying Hema, Sam’s Club, which runs over 500 front-end warehouses, is now 7Fresh's example. 7Fresh continues to lack uniqueness…

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    The secret of instant retail can be found deep within the bowels of Beijing. The real innovation in Chinese retail isn't in robots, gimmicks and gadgets but in smart business models. During one of the days of the ChinaTechTrip study tour we zoom in on different forms of instant retail in China. After a morning masterclass explaining various business models, we head into the city to explore them in real life. One of the most successful concepts concerns lightning warehouse. We visited a Xiongben warehouse, deep below the ground in a residential area in Beijing. On first sight it might look like a strange underground supermarket or a dark store of a flash delivery company like Gorillas/Zapp/Getir/Flink. But lightning warehouses are different. They are often run by convenience store entrepreneurs who have moved their businesses to places with cheaper rentals and expanded the number of SKUs they can sell. Unlike many of the failed flash delivery companies in Europe, lightning warehouses do not run their own sites/apps and do not deliver. They cooperate with the likes of Meituan and Eleme that offer digitization and couriers for them and have hundreds of millions of users in their multi-functional platforms. As I explained in a Tech Buzz China report last year, lightning warehouses make the difference between loss-making and profitable instant retail for these entrepreneurs. Xiongben has already expanded to 50 lightning warehouses in Beijing. Meituan plans to expand the 30.000 lightning warehouses it currently works with to 100.000 in 2027, generating more than $25 billion in GMV. You'll be able to learn more about this and many other innovative retail concepts during the ChinaTechTrip tours in 2025. Visit the LinkedIn page for more information.

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    I'm just going to leave this image out here ... Taken from Marketplace Pulse Year in Review 2024. Most people I meet at seminars where I present a ChinaTalk keynote have not yet woken up to this new reality. We are stuck in a complacency of ignorance and sometimes arrogance. Be smart in 2025 and get more informed. We can help in two ways: our Tech Buzz China reports on cross-border e-commerce and hardware products coming at us from China (e.g., EVs) and our ChinaTechTrip study tours which help you gain competitive intelligence. You might think you don't have time for this and can't free up a week in your agenda in half a year because business is so busy. But if you keep procrastinating, you might not even have a business in a few years. Read the rest of Marketplace Pulse's slides for more eye-openers if you need more reasons. https://lnkd.in/eQE3gSMC

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    A quick reminder. This month, we have opened the ChinaTechTrip timeslot of 13/4 - 19/4/2025, during which we have prepared a study tour about retail innovation, on a first-come, first-served basis. Our complete program includes visiting Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai and delving into topics like e-commerce, ecosystems, instant retail, live commerce, C2M, and cross-border e-commerce (Temu, Shein, etc.). We have morning masterclasses, afternoon excursions, Chinese cuisine, and entertainment in the evening. Previous participants have rated the program with a 9.5. The tour will inform you about the latest trends and innovations in Chinese online and offline retail and provide competitive intelligence on new Chinese e-commerce players entering your market. A group of Dutch participants is slowly filling up. If you speak Dutch and want to join, don't wait and register here: https://lnkd.in/eAjbZCsU If you are an organisation that wants to book this timeslot for your own (private) tour with customers, staff or members, please contact me. We've been talking to many interested individuals and organisations, but a lack of urgency leads to procrastination. 'Maybe next time.' Meanwhile, new Chinese competitors go full steam ahead while you think it's not important enough to free up one week in your agenda. We can't wait, and neither should you. Therefore, whatever comes first, a Dutch group of at least 10 participants or a client for a dedicated tour, will be served. PS: this is the only remaining chance to join us for a tour in 2025. We are fully booked in the autumn of next year.

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    Profiel weergeven voor Ed Sander (艾德), afbeelding

    China Digital Tech Researcher helping you understand China's domestic and cross-border internet companies through reports, keynotes and study tours. Writer, Public Speaker, Study Tour Leader.

    This evening (December 9th), Lianne Baaij and I will answer the following questions at a Vereniging Nederland China VNC China Café event: ▶️ How has Temu expanded its market share so quickly in the Netherlands and Europe? And how about Shein? ▶️ What technological and logistical innovations do these companies use to differentiate themselves from traditional players? ▶️ What makes these webshops so appealing to consumers? ▶️ How can these webshops offer so many products at such a low price level? ▶️ Are consumers aware of the environmental impact of these platforms, and how does this influence their purchasing behaviour? ▶️ How do Temu and Shein address criticism regarding sustainability and labour conditions? ▶️ What about product safety and quality? ▶️ Are there privacy, data security, or national security concerns regarding using apps like Shein or Temu? ▶️ What new developments or strategies can we expect from platforms like Temu and Shein? ▶️ How do you see the future of Chinese e-commerce platforms over the next five years? Join us for a drink and get more informed about your new Chinese competitors (or partners). Date: December 9th. 2024 Time: 17:00 – 19:00 Location: Stadsbrasserie De Utrechter, Vredenburg 40, 3511 BD Utrecht, The Netherlands Tickets for this event are €12.50. Registration link in the comments.

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