Learn How the "Daigou" Website Is Changing E-commerce Around the World!

Life in China is different in so many ways from life in America. One of the most noticeable differences is the goods available for purchase in the shops and supermarkets. For my foreign classmates and myself, finding our everyday goods such as deodorant, maple syrup and DVDs can be an impossible challenge. Likewise, many of my Chinese friends here in Beijing desire for foreign luxury items such as Louis Vuitton bags and expensive facial creams. In the past, traveling family members and friends were given a long list of items to bring back to China from overseas.

However, this past challenge now has a solution! That solution is called "代购 (dàigòu)." "代购 (Dàigòu)" is an e-commerce company that links together buyers in mainland China that wish to purchase foreign goods from individuals outside of China. Those individual "purchasers" may be in Australia, the USA, Europe or elsewhere.

代 (Dài): to replace
购 (Gòu): to buy; to purchase

…it’s as simple as that!

Obviously, it doesn’t make sense for these overseas purchasers to buy things such as chili peppers or toilet paper to send to China. We already have that here! Therefore, popular goods include foreign liquor, luxury bags, clothing items and cologne/perfume from resources abroad. Vice versa, people in foreign countries can contact buyers in China to obtain Chinese goods to be sent to their countries. Popular Chinese goods sold to foreign locations are ... Read More

The importance of learning Chinese writing
Nowadays more and more people are beginning to learn Chinese. For the most part, they are only focusing on learning how to speak Chinese. But concerning using this language, they also need to learn Chinese writing. Writing can reflect a writer’s power of thought and language organization skills. It is critical to master Chinese writing if you want to take your Chinese to the next level.

How to write good Chinese essays? The following five steps will improve your Chinese writing.

• Become Familiar with the Chinese Character Writing
In order to write a good Chinese essay, a fundamental step is to be familiar with Chinese characters. Chinese characters are different when you compare them to English letters. Chinese characters are hieroglyphs and each stroke of a Chinese character is different from the next stroke. Familiarity of Chinese character writing is indispensable for anyone who wants to write nice Chinese essays.

• Increase Your Vocabulary
The Chinese language includes 100,000 vocabulary words. If you want to just know the most used words you still need to learn several thousand words. A good writer needs to acquire as many words as possible. How can you enlarge your vocabulary? The best method is to listen, read and learn as much Chinese as possible. Don’t forget to apply what you have learned to your Chinese writing so that you can make continual progress.

• Acquire Grammar and Sentence Patterns
Chinese grammar and sentence patterns need to be acquired in order to improve your Chinese writing. Generally speaking, grammar consists of words, phrases and sentence structure. In terms of single words, Chinese words can be classified as lexical and functional words. In terms of phrases, Chinese phrases can be divided into ... Read More