According to Chinese online shopping platform Taobao.com, the company is currently deploying offline retail kiosks and payment points across China to complement the over 4,000 locations it has already opened in Beijing in such supermarkets and convenience stores as Vanguard, Lianhua and Hi-24.

Daoyao.com, the online drugstore branch of Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical, has announced that the company has reached an agreement with the third party payment platform 99bill.com to jointly develop the online drugstore sector.

Amazon.cn has announced plans to cooperate with Alipay, an online payment provider and sister company of Amazon.cn's competitor Taobao.com — which is owned by Alibaba.com.