Online sales platforms boost consumer rights

Last year, the number of disputes involving cross-border online shopping rose, according to a report from the internet court in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province.

With more than 610 million online buyers nationwide, disputes related to e-commerce accounted for many of the cases handled by the court, which opened in August 2017.

The court has ruled on 2,099 such cases and found in favor of the customers in about 90 percent of them, the report said.