{"id":9514,"date":"2017-02-19T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/iamdanw-there-was-a-period-when-a-great-many\/"},"modified":"2017-02-19T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T19:48:09","slug":"iamdanw-there-was-a-period-when-a-great-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/iamdanw-there-was-a-period-when-a-great-many\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/post\/105775523690\/there-was-a-period-when-a-great-many-overseas\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamdanw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c&quot;There was a period when a great many overseas buyers were logging on to Alibaba to look for Chinese companies to produce cheap items for them instead of coming to China,&ldquo; he said. \u2026 \u201cThose two years probably were the peak period of e-commerce trading in China, as competition was not very tough in the rapidly expanding overseas market,\u201d Ai said. But it got harder to turn a profit as the market became saturated and labor costs rose. In 2011 and 2012, Ai could make a simple piece of jewelry for about 5 yuan, and he could sell it to overseas clients for 7 yuan. But now, despite his own costs rising due to wage hikes, he can\u2019t raise his selling prices due to stiff competition. As a result, \u201cI\u2019ve paid more attention to design and drawn a wider variety of products for the clients to choose from,\u201d said Ai, adding that \u201cwhat gives me my edge is the quality and stylishness of my products.\u201d\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/bizchina\/2013-10\/25\/content_17057265.htm\">Traders in Yiwu cashing in on e-commerce shops |Industries |chinadaily.com.cn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iamdanw: \u201c&quot;There was a period when a great many overseas buyers were logging on to Alibaba to look for Chinese companies to produce cheap items for them instead of coming to China,&ldquo; he said. \u2026 \u201cThose two years probably were the peak period of e-commerce trading in China, as competition was not very tough in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2ts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}