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E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (“Dangdang” or the “Company”) DANG -5.73%, a leading business-to-consumer e-commerce company in China, today announced its recent fulfillment developments and the appointment of Justin Changqing Xiong as the head of technology.
Recent Fulfillment Development : Dangdang started the operation of its Wuxi fulfillment center in late August, which brings its total warehouse space to 260,000 square meters currently from 210,000 square meters at the end of the second quarter. In order to further strengthen its fulfillment capacity, Dangdang plans to open two additional fulfillment centers, one in Fuzhou of Fujian province and the other one in Jinan of Shandong province, in the fourth quarter of 2011. Meanwhile, Dangdang continues to improve the delivery services by further shortening the delivery time. Currently Dangdang offers same-day-delivery services in 17 cities and the next-day-delivery services in 72 cities in China.