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Chinese People Prefer Buy Luxury

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Introduction

Research question: In recent years why have more and more Chinese people opted to buy luxury

good overseas? Specifically in USA, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.

In the past few years, during the holiday seasonal promotions, many brand-name stores in

various countries have been filed with Chinese tourists. This phenomenon has drawn the attention

of the Chinese Government, and according to media reports data computing, high-end consumer

goods purchased overseas by Chinese visitors in one a year alone amounted to $46 billion,

equivalent to nearly 300 billion yuan.

Chinese people are keen to buy luxury goods abroad, despite many cities within China also have

these brand outlets, including those Chinese people …show more content…

For example

Burberry’s classic trench coat has a price on the brand Chinese official website for 22,000 yuan,

while in the UK site was £ 1,195 (about RMB 11,855 yuan), while in France for € 1,495, US

$ 1,895. The price of more than 40% cheaper than in China.(Wang,H 2013) In my opinion, I

think the price is the most important reason behind why Chinese tourists buy more luxury goods

overseas.

On the other hand, The China Daily reporter Xiao He cites another reason for why people buy

luxury goods overseas. In 2012, 25% of global luxury goods were purchased Chinese people, 60%

of consumption to overseas. Xiao believes that other reason for why people buy luxury goods

overseas is because in china, they don’t have enough variety of luxury goods. The most typical

example is of the Apple phone, can not be purchased as quickly due to delayed release date in the

Chinese market, leading consumers take advantage of tourism opportunities to go abroad to buy.

Many Chinese consumers overseas have found that the same brand of goods abroad offer a much

more extensive range than in China.(Xiao,H 2013)

An article from The Ningbo Daily states another reason for why chinese people may buy luxury

goods overseas. The "customer environment" is an issue. Outside of China the general price tag

of luxury goods as

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