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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>NBS released (15 December) November online retail sales data.</li><li>YoY growth of online physical goods GMV slowed to 1.2% YoY amid soft consumption sentiment, but online retail sales penetration rate of physical goods reached 27.1% in 11M22 at a historical high, which we attribute to further constrained offline activities and further commerce adoption of new online format.</li><li>The high online penetration could sustain into December, in our view, as offline activities will remain constrained and continue to shift online.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

NBS released (15 December) November online retail sales data.YoY growth of online physical goods GMV slowed to 1.2% YoY amid soft consumption sentiment, but online retail sales penetration rate of physical goods reached 27.1% in 11M22 at a historical high, which we attribute to further constrained offline activities and further commerce adoption of new online format.The high online penetration could sustain into December, in our view, as offline activities will remain constrained and continue to shift online.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Internet – November Online Retail Sales Recap