CHONGQING- China's e-commerce platform Alibaba listed the top 10 trending commodities sold internationally in 2022, revealing that football-related products are popular among international online customers.

Alibaba.com listed the top 10 most popular items sold on its platform: home solar panels, electric blankets, container houses, home beekeeping equipment, wall-mounted charging piles, laser machines, camping tents, football items, electric bicycles, and false eyelashes. (iChongqing/ Kenny Dong)

Back in June, "football" trended as a hot buzzword on the international end of Alibaba, China's e-commerce platform to serve millions of buyers and sellers worldwide, and the FIFA World Cup 2022 further accelerated the trend. 

The selling data released by the Alibaba platform between September and November showed that the number of users ordering goalkeeper gloves increased by 323%, and cups and medals sold increased by 126% compared to the previous two months.

This means that football products have become a key motivation driving China's export increase this year.

Additionally, home solar energy has become popular in the European market because of the soaring price of natural gas, electricity, and other energy sources. China's heating products continue to be a hot sale. In the first three quarters of this year, the sales of electric blankets increased by nearly five times.

Benefiting from the global trend of low-carbon transformation, electric bicycles and new energy wall-mounted charging piles made in China are also proliferating. Along with new energy, industrial laser machinery sees competence in both ability and price.

Wei Jianguo, vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that the reason for Chinese foreign trade's steady growth in recent years is the improved ability of Chinses businessmen.

"The merchants have paid more and more attention to the cross-border e-commerce platforms," he said. "The sensitivity to capture sudden demand in overseas markets has been greatly improved, so they can usually outperform foreign competitors."