BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019) held in Las Vegas during January 8-11 saw the presence of less smart phone manufacturers but the showcase of an increasing number of Chinese e-commerce giants like Alibaba and JD.com.
Among the world’s top six mobile phone enterprises, only Samsung and Huawei participated in this year’s CES while Apple, OPPO, Vivo and Xiaomi were absent.
The above six mobile phone giants accounted for over 65 percent share combined of the global mobile phone industry in the past two years, according to statistics.
Most of the mobile phone companies were more passionate about taking part in Mobile World Congress, said Gartner research vice president, Roger Sheng, who added that the underlying reason was that the United States was not a target market for Chinese mobile phone brands, and its market entry threshold was relatively high.
Compared to low enthusiasm of phone makers, Chinese e-commerce giants, including Alibaba, JD.com, Suning and Meituan, were actively attending the CES 2019, displaying their technical strengths in retail, logistics, distribution and other fields.
JD.com, for instance, showcased its technology, resources and service capability in the retail industry through its CES debut this year. It even signed on-site contracts for strategic cooperation in 2019 with domestic and foreign home appliance enterprises such as Samsung, Sharp, Hisense, TCL, Skyworth, Changhong, and Kongka, with value of the deals totaling over 100 billion yuan.
Meituan also displayed its unmanned distribution products, smart dispatching system, and AI-based Meituan Brain for intelligent catering and entertainment services through its “smart city” system at the CES 2019, while Alibaba designed a procurement area for the first time at the CES, aiming to bring the exhibition online for global sellers and buyers to make transactions.
The CES, founded in 1967, is an annual event where enterprises showcase their new technological and electronic innovations. (Edited by Su Dan, Niu Huizhe)
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