On October 25, Suning Holding Group reached the strategic cooperative frame agreement with the municipal government that eight major industries including Suning.com, Suning Logistics, Suning Financial Services, Suning Science and Technology, Suning Real Estate, Suning Media and Entertainment, Suning Sports and Suning Investment will be comprehensively distributed in Yichang. By 2022, the annual sales scale of the whole channel will exceed 2 billion yuan.
By the end of 2019, Suning Holding Group plans to respectively establish a Suning Plaza or Suning.com Plaza project in the core business circles of Xiling District and Wujiagang District to build the digital commercial plaza based on intelligent experience, exhibition and service, and construct a regional city of smart retailing, so as to provide more sophisticated product supply for Yichang consumers.
By 2022, it is planned to distribute 20 Suning.com cloud stores, 30 Suning.com direct-sale stores and 100 Suning.com selected stores in Yichang. In addition, the new formats such as Redbaby, Su Fresh and Suningjiwu will be settled in the province preferentially. The new community commerce will be developed, and 100 Suning small stores will be distributed.
Combined with the industrial chain advantage resources of Suning.com, Suning Media and Entertainment, Suning Sports and so on, Suning Holding Group will rely on the cultural advantage resources of Yichang tourism to build the Suning Three Gorges City which integrates commercial commerce, cultural tourism, leisure and vacation, sports and health regimen in the core area of Dianjun district, and strives to build an industrial landmark project.
Based on the location advantages of Yichang as an important transportation and logistics node city in the central and western regions of the country, and the industrial advantages of Suning Logistics, Suning Holding Group will cooperate to build logistics projects that radiate the surrounding areas such as the southwest Hubei, and realize the whole-process service of supply chain such as warehousing and distribution, so as to create one of the most efficient consumer goods warehousing services and smart logistics service platforms in Central China.
In order to promote the wide application of e-commerce in agricultural products circulation, industrial products to the countryside and urban living services, Suning Holding Group will deeply cooperate with Yichang in the training of rural e-commerce and agricultural e-commerce talents to promote Yichang citrus, tea and other advantageous agricultural products as well as other well-known brand products to be sold throughout the country by online channels.
In the field of technology services, business migration and cloud governance services provided by Suning Cloud will be actively supported by local enterprises. At the same time, the technology service capabilities of Suning big data and artificial intelligence applications will be applied and generalized in deepening the smart city construction in Yichang, tourism informatization and industrial Internet application.
In addition, through the cooperation with Yichang’s colleges and universities, Suning Holding Group will regularly carry out special training for relevant personnel in the field of Yichang business through the online and offline learning platforms and other ways.
Suning Holding Group is a leading commercial enterprise in China, and its comprehensive strength ranks 2nd among the top 500 private enterprises in China. (Reporter: Gao Wei)