# How China is changing the future of shopping

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@BCG Milan
- Speaker: Angela Wang
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/angela_wang_how_china_is_changing_the_future_of_shopping)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million Chinese consumers -- the equivalent of the combined populations of the US, UK and Germany -- regularly make purchases via mobile platforms, even in brick-and-mortar stores. What will this transformation mean for the future of shopping? Learn more about the new business-as-usual, where everything is ultra-convenient, ultra-flexible and ultra-social.

## Lectures

1. [How China is changing the future of shopping](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/angela_wang_how_china_is_changing_the_future_of_shopping/9feaacd323d9), 14 min (TED's player)