China Retail Informatization Industry Indepth Research and Investment Strategy Planning Report, 2013-2017

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current retail informatization industry’s market status. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of retail informatization industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for retail informatization industry’s future development trend.

As one of earliest industries entering market, different retail business formats of retail industry emerge in China’s market in succession with the improvement of people’s sales level, which not only enriches the domestic market, but also come up with new tasks for the management of retail enterprises. Traditional management modes of retail industry is no longer adapting to the diversified enterprise mode. Introducing informatization will bring new opportunities as well as challenges for the development of retail industry.

The “Twelfth Five-year” Plan clearly points out to accelerate the formation of new pattern combining with consumption, investment and export, which coordinately drives the development of economy in the next 5 years. In terms of details, it’s easy to find the order of “three-in-hand “economic driven factors has firstly adjusted. Consumption has been shifted to the first place. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 15.45 trillion Yuan in 2010, with a year-on-year increase of 18.4%; eliminating the factor of price rising, the actual growth rate was 14.8%. Obviously, when the State vigorously transform the economic development way, push the consumption as well as expand the domestic demand, the domestic retail industry will definitely be promoted to develop. Then, China retail industry informatization market, which is like a “gold mine”, with an abundant of treasures attracts concerns from the industry. According to statistics, the IT investment of China retail industry in 2011 will exceed 10 billion Yuan, reaching 11.25 billion Yuan.

The market size of retail informatization industry; some characteristics and problems in retail informatization industry; the major software market condition of retail informatization industry; the leading suppliers’ operational conditions in retail informatization industry; the leading corporations’ operational conditions in retail informatization industry, as well as the development prospects of retail informatization industry. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data over the past 5 years Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of retail informatization industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China current retail informatization industry’s market status. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years’ practice experience of retail informatization industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for retail informatization industry’s future development trend. This report helps commercial circulation enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises’ development directions.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center

Research Team of Retail Informatization Industry