By Relaxnews, Updated: 09/09/2012

Chinese e-commerce giant Taobao sets up on-campus student service centres

China's biggest e-commerce website Taobao Marketplace has opened on-campus service centers at 11 colleges and universities in China to receive and dispatch packages for the student body, it announced on its Sina Weibo microblog this past week.

This news is expected to be well received by Chinese students who live in university dormitories across the country. Door-to-door pick-up and delivery services are currently not allowed at Chinese colleges and universities. For this reason, it is not uncommon to see delivery vans parked outside the front gates of school campuses nationwide waiting for students to collect their online purchases.

Without giving a firm date, Taobao Marketplace also revealed the names of the institutions it will be partnering with to set up more of these campus service centers. These include the Xian Eurasia University, Hubei University of Economics, Sichuan Huaxin Modern Vocational College and Zhejiang Shuren University.

Launched in 2003, Taobao Marketplace (www.taobao.com) has more than 800 million product listings and more than 500 million registered users as of June 2012, according to its website. The e-commerce website retails anything and everything from flowers and cosmetics to luxury products and even apartments.

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