"关店潮" 来了？ 中国三分之一商场恐消失..

20160914ou 一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题： "关店潮" 来了？ 报道称，到2020年中国三分之一商场恐消失.. LW: Now shopping malls are something that we saw all over China (shopping centers for that matter Nick) but that bubble may be starting to burst. You You, take it away. YY: A latest report says that one thirds of Chinese shopping centers will be out of business by 2030. The report is from the Chinese academy of Social Sciences. It also says that those centers that aren’t out of business will have to transform in order to survive and will become retail market places and a third will become integrated into online shopping. This is all because of the rise of online stores. [NL: 2020 seems quite soon]. LW: Its three years away because 2016 is on its way out. YY: You can see the rapid growth of online stores here in China and also across the world. And some of the brick and mortar stores are having a bit of a dilemma because they have to pay the taxes and also the rental fees, but usually online stores do not have those kinds of worries. They usually have other kinds of worries. The facts are that by the end of last month, which is August, you can see that some cities like Qingdao, Dalian, and Chongqing, all saw large shopping centers shut down. LW: Let’s use the example of a Beijing market: Yashow. It used to be relatively cheap and used to be one of those places where you would go to bargain. Basically it used to be a market but now it’s turned into this really flashy mall. It used to be one of the places where if you had family visiting Beijing it used to be one of the places you take them [if you love bargaining]. You bargained there and a lot of people practiced their Chinese there and it was a bit of a free-for-all. Like the Wild West. Understandably as China becomes more developed, you can’t really have those fake goods around anymore and big companies are going to start complaining; its not necessarily a good look. YY: Also, some world leaders went there for an experience. LW: The rent was raised for a lot of the tenants and they couldn’t afford it, so they had to put down a lot of money as a deposit, and it turned into this high-end luxury mall and a place where people with good reputations can go. Unfortunately it’s fallen off. People don’t want to visit it because now it looks like every other mall or every other place. YY: When you transform it into a high-end shopping mall. It loses what makes it different. And its difference makes it perfect. One thing that I will say to that is that I don’t see shopping malls vanishing quickly because [a lot of people] need to dry the clothes on compared to online stores. I think that is one of the main advantages of the shopping mall.