(MENAFN) Data showed that China's e-commerce trade increased in 2014 driven by improved Internet infrastructure and an increase in cellphone users despite a weak economy.
Transaction volume of Chinese shopping websites totaled USD2.68 trillion last year, up 59.4 percent year on year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revealed.
Third-party platforms, like China's largest shopping website Taobao.com, accounted for 44.3 percent, while self-operated stores accounted for 55.7 percent, data showed.
Meanwhile, the country's 20 biggest online websites saw aggregate transactions worth USD1 trillion during the period, making up around 90 percent of all third-party platforms.
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