E-commerce doubles up at symposium

I was right in guessing that there would be a big name from e-commerce at Monday's meeting to advise the premier on next year's economy, but I didn't expect there would be two.

Liu Qiangdong, founder of e-commerce company JD.com Inc, and Luo Feng, chairman of Internet direct-selling platform IZP Technologies Co Ltd, were both invited to attend the economic symposium to offer grassroots facts and complaints to Premier Li Keqiang.

As the premier said at the beginning of the meeting, Monday's symposium was held to solicit advice from experts and business people on economic development in the fourth quarter and the strategy to sustain growth for the world's second-largest economy in 2015.