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E-commerce	JD.hk not JD.com	Tmall.hk not Tmall.com	SydneyDirect.com.au
WeChat store	NO	NO	work as a WeChat store
Who’s marketplace?	JD.hk is the HongKong domain of JD.com for worldwide vendors	Tmall.hk is the Hongkong domain of Tmall.com for worldwide vendors	SydneyDirect focuses on promoting Australian brand products and services to Chinese consumers.
Support language	Chinese	Chinese	English & Chinese
Support currency	RMB	RMB	AUD, RMB, multi-currency interface
Target Market	China	China	Chinese consumers worldwide
Cost to Join	USD15,000 security bond +USD1,000 annual fee	USD25,000 security bond + USD5,000  annual fee	Free join. Merchant packages for subscription.
Alipay	yes	yes	yes
WeChatPay	yes	yes	yes
Paypal	no	no	yes
Translation service	NA	NA	Full-serviced
Traffic	Competing with 100K merchants	Competeing with 50K merchants	Driving traffic and conversions by Merchant packages.
Google Shopping  ADs	no	no	Yes

There are good reasons why cross border e-commerce is the best entry mode to Chinese market:

• Legal Aspect: China has stringent, complex regulation for import, and most likely your products are not yet certified to do official import.  It may take over 6 months for a product to obtain its certificate to be qualified for official import.
• Cost Aspect:  Products that in the CBEC allowed (pre-approval) categories are exempt from normal import tax and GST (17%) and consumption tax (70%). CBEC import model is applicable to a lower rate 60% if need to do custom clearance. CBEC personal parcels under RMB2000/shipment are exempt from custom duties, so it is a great save for consumers to purchase from overseas marketplace.
• Logistics issue:  Currently in Australia there are some logistics companies competing with each other, shippers will have the privilege to choose from them and use their bonded warehouse service before establishing a Chinese operation to handle these queries.