Overseas shoppers sustain Chinese e-commerce boom

The Chinese online shopping market has boomed in recent years as local shoppers took to it like duck to water, and will likely continue to boom on the back of indulgent consumers overseas.

According to a cross-border trade report jointly released by online payment provider Pay-Pal and research firm Ipsos, China rose to be the most popular cross-border e-commerce destination for the first time in 2016, dislodging the United States and the United Kingdom.

Up to 21 percent of the 28,000 respondents from 32 countries said they had shopped on Chinese websites last year.