Young Entrepreneurs Village:The first sample of O2O Online Garment Wholesale Center

by Dong Zheng

Young Entrepreneurs Village International Online Wholesale Center （hereinafter referred to as Young Entrepreneurs Village）， committed to creating a digital and intelligent online business park of whole industrial chain， is a sample carrier of the first B2B2C independent platform and O2O mode in Fujian Province. 2016 Strategic Development Conference of Young Entrepreneurs Village and the Press Conference of the Official Online of Young Entrepreneurs Village Web 2.0 were held for further innovative business models during the same period of China （Quanzhou） Maritime Silk Road Expo and Straits Textile Clothing Fair on April 18， 2016.

Young Entrepreneurs Village， wholly owned by Maosheng Investment（Fujian） Co.， Ltd.， aims to create an online wholesale platform to guarantee the quality of Shishi clothing. The first-stage program includes an international online garment wholesale center， a market of online small and medium sellers， a comprehensive service center， an online operation center， a Wechat business operation center， a service center for youth entrepreneurs， which can accommodate more than 600 and enterprises business offices at the same time. Till now， over 300 offline stores have run business online， while over 500 SMEs have been requiring to be engaged. The second phase is planned to contain a cross-border online supplier service center and an online warehouse logistics distribution center.

Young Entrepreneurs Village enjoys distinctive advantages in hardware， resources， and supply chain， and its “online operation + offline service” mode can help businesses choose the manufacturers and products.

According to Lin Yisha， General Manager of Young Entrepreneurs Village， many online suppliers have won deep trust among each other after a year of cooperation， instead of doubts about it at the beginning.

It is learned that， since 2015， Young Entrepreneurs Village has established a strategic alliance with multiple platforms， such as TMALL and Alibaba. At the same time， some businesses， recommended by Young Entrepreneurs Village and endorsed by the Government， have successfully entered the q.taobao. com which requires high quality of the goods made in China. In support of Young Entrepreneurs Village and Cowboy Valley， the merchants from both sides connected to make exchanges of various goods for supplement of garment categories during January to March this year， opening up multiple sales channels online and offline.

What the merchants from Young Entrepreneurs Village value most is the numbers of small and medium sellers （SMSs） which is a guarantee of business. In order to build a market for SMSs， Young Entrepreneurs Village has taken various initiatives to provide the SMSs with professional solutions on online business， not only consolidating the original business flow but also increasingly attracting more SMSs from the surrounding areas to join Young Entrepreneurs Village. The current development trend of overall business flow tells that the market for SMSs has enjoyed a basic scale and presented a trend of ever-expanding development.

Young Entrepreneurs Village is to take strategic measures for cooperation with nine platforms in 2016， while the former will become a bridge for the merchants to have dialogues with each platform.

During 2016 Strategic Development Conference of Young Entrepreneurs Village and the Press Conference of the Official Online of Young Entrepreneurs Village Web 2.0， Young Entrepreneurs Village signed strategic cooperation agreements respectively with Cowboy Valley， eelly.com， and cjwsc.com， while Gu Liang， General Manager of Suning Online Department Division， also announced the official launching of “Young Entrepreneurs Village Mens Wear Hall on www.suning. com”.

Meanwhile， Young Entrepreneurs Village Web 2.0 is positioned as a network platform centered on providing services to SMSs， providing onestop service experiences in convenient searching， comparison， distribution， and delivery of goods as well as ERP management， supplemented by online store decoration， operation teaching， corporate / trademark registration， logistics & warehousing， financial services such as loans， so that Young Entrepreneurs Village Web 2.0 will become an indispensable capable assistant for the small and medium online sellers. In the future， Young Entrepreneurs Village will focus on the promotion of its online web and the mobile phone store distribution system， achieving Young Entrepreneurs Village O2O innovative development.

Lin Zhicheng， President of Young Entrepreneurs Village， believed that in the future the Village will build a thriving ecosystem for the online business suppliers， giving full play to the aggregation and radiation effects of the Village to ignite the new energy of the entrepreneurial base for the Wechat businesses among the SMSs， drive the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturers in the surrounding areas， and boost the local economic development.