#Business# | 🤝 2nd #Macao-##Hengqin# Civil Servants Seminar held September 18! Thirty civil servants from Macao's economic and financial sector explored coordinated industrial development through field visits, lectures, and roundtable exchanges. They toured the #Guangdong# Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology and the Cross-Border E-commerce (Huafa) Innovation Park, then visited the Hengqin Planning Exhibition Hall to learn about integrated development plans. The seminar aims to build regular exchange channels, consensus, and cross-regional governance capacity – with four planned this year. #CivilServants# #GuangdongMacao# #CooperationZone# #EconomicDevelopment# #CrossBorderEcommerce# #Governance# #GreaterBayArea#

#ASEAN# | 🤝 #Guangdong# & #Thailand# deepen ties at "Go Guangdong, Go Global" Salon in #Foshan#! Held on September 18 alongside the Foshan-Thailand #Economic# and #Trade# Cooperation Meeting, the event gathered officials, experts, and hundreds of Guangdong enterprises to align industrial strengths and explore new cooperation. 🌏 #APEC2026# #BYD# #CPGroup# #Investment# #AI# #GreenEnergy# #CrossBorderEcommerce#

It was a genuine pleasure hosting two of our prospective partners from Türkiye at CJ over the past two days — and honestly, one of the warmest visits we've had this year. They are e‑commerce mentors with a real following overseas. Through their media channels, they teach people how to start and grow a business on e‑commerce platforms, and their guidance has helped a great many young entrepreneurs take their very first step. With that kind of influence, they are careful about who they stand behind — which is exactly why their trip to China meant so much to us. They told us plainly: they came because they consider CJ a supplier they can trust. Day one — CJ Hangzhou HQ. We walked them through our head office, our teams, and how we work day to day. Again and again they stopped us with the same remark: "CJ is so much bigger than we imagined." They had a picture in their head before landing, and reality simply exceeded it. Day two — Yiwu office, factory and warehouse. We took them through our full backend: sourcing, production lines, quality inspection, packing and outbound. They were amazed by the scale of the supply chain system behind every single order. Customization was what interested them most, so we built the visit around it — laser engraving, carbonized leather effects, embroidery, and everything else we can offer partners who want their own branding on a product. They watched each process closely, because when you are the one advising thousands of sellers, you need to know exactly what a factory can and cannot do. Between sessions we also went to the Yiwu International Trade City on their own. When they came back, one of them said something we will remember for a long time: China had far exceeded what they imagined — so developed, and so efficient, that walking around felt a little like seeing the future ahead of schedule. But the biggest impression, they insisted, was none of the infrastructure. It was the people. Chinese people are truly kind, they said, and they had felt warmly looked after at every stop. We told them this is simply an old Chinese tradition: when a friend comes from far away, you open your door, you sit down together, and you make sure they see everything clearly. Because trust is the beginning of every real partnership — and trust can only be built face to face. In return, our guests insisted on treating us to authentic Turkish cuisine, and happily walked us through Turkish food culture dish by dish. That is how the best kind of exchange works: hospitality given, hospitality returned. And one small moment that made us all laugh — they noticed that in our office, on almost everyone's desk, there is a stack of tissue packets. They asked about it several times, genuinely puzzled. Yes. This is a Chinese office thing. You would not believe how normal it is to us. Grateful for this encounter, and grateful to be trusted. We hope these two days give their audience even more confidence in what Chinese supply chains can deliver — and we look forward to growing together. #CrossBorderEcommerce# #CJTeam# #GlobalPartners# #Turkiye# #SupplierTrust# #Customization# #Yiwu# #EntrepreneurMindset# #CulturalExchange# #CJdropshipping#

Sowilo, an AI Fashion Startup, Completes Pre-Seed Funding On July 21, 2026, Icelandic fashion-tech startup Sowilo announced the completion of its Pre-Seed funding round. The amount raised has not been disclosed. The round was co-participated by Icelandic venture fund Kría, Dutch investment firm TGC Capital, and multiple angel investors from Iceland and Australia. The company stated that the funds will be used to drive the global expansion of its AI fashion product intelligence platform Catecut and further expand its application within the Shopify ecosystem. According to Dealroom, Catecut has been selected for the Kría Frumsjóður 25 startup program, standing out from 88 applicant companies to become one of the final 11 selected. Sowilo was founded by Heiðrún Ósk Sigfúsdóttir. Its product Catecut is an AI product intelligence platform designed for fashion retailers. Using proprietary AI, the platform analyzes images of clothing, jewelry, and other products to automatically identify product categories and design features, then generates product titles, descriptions, tags, metadata, and SEO-optimized product content. This helps e-commerce merchants automatically create and update product pages, significantly reducing manual data entry work. Catecut is now officially available in the Shopify App Store. Merchants can use the tool directly in the Shopify backend to generate multilingual product content, update both new and existing product pages, and automatically create image alt text and search tags. The company reports that Catecut is already serving U.S. jewelry and apparel retail clients and has completed pilot collaborations with several large international retailers. The new funding will support further expansion into the North American and European markets, as well as accelerated entry into the Asia-Pacific region. From the primary market perspective, AI applications in e-commerce are gradually extending from customer service and marketing into product operations and content management. As the number of SKUs on e-commerce platforms continues to grow, using AI to automatically generate product information, optimize search performance, and improve operational efficiency is becoming an important need for brands and retailers. Sowilo’s Pre-Seed raise also reflects growing capital market attention to vertical AI SaaS commercialization opportunities in niche scenarios—particularly in fashion retail and cross-border e-commerce. #AI# #ArtificialIntelligence# #Fashion# #Tech# #Startup# #CrossBorderEcommerce# #Shopify#