She bought a
secondhand car for her daughter's first driving experience.
她给女儿买了一辆二手车供她首次驾驶体验。
I found a beautiful vintage dress at the thrift store, it was a real
secondhand treasure.
我在旧货店找到了一件漂亮的复古连衣裙，真是个二手珍宝。
The seller offered to sell me their old furniture at a fraction of its original price, it was a steal as a
secondhand purchase.
卖家愿意以原价的一小部分卖给我他们的旧家具，这真是个二手购买的划算交易。
My grandfather passed down his
secondhand watch to me, it has sentimental value beyond its monetary worth.
我祖父把他的二手手表传给了我，它的感情价值远超其实际价格。
She prefers to read
secondhand books because they're often cheaper and have unique markings from previous owners.
她喜欢阅读二手书，因为它们通常更便宜，且有前主人的独特标记。
In the world of technology, buying
secondhand gadgets can be a smart way to save money without compromising quality.
在科技领域，购买二手设备是省钱又不降低品质的明智选择。
The antique shop specializes in selling high-quality
secondhand furniture from different eras.
这家古董店专门销售来自不同时代的高质量二手家具。
She picked up a
secondhand bicycle from a friend who no longer needed it, now she can ride to work without spending much.
她从一个不再需要的朋友那里得到了一辆二手自行车，现在她可以骑车上班而不用花太多钱。
The community garden relies on donations of
secondhand gardening tools to keep their operations running smoothly.
社区花园依赖于二手园艺工具的捐赠来维持正常运作。
After a thorough inspection, the house inspector gave the green light for purchasing the
secondhand property.
经过仔细检查，房屋检查员对购买这处二手房表示了认可。
Young Chinese consumers seeking budget-friendly purchases drive salesChina's secondhand goods transaction market is poised to see speedy growth in the coming years as young consumers nationwide trend toward lifestyles more environmentally friendly and are increasingly keen on buying more budget-friendly goods via secondhand trading platforms, experts said.
专家表示，寻求经济实惠购买的中国年轻消费者推动了销售。随着全国年轻消费者的生活方式越来越环保，越来越热衷于通过二手交易平台购买更经济实惠的商品，中国二手商品交易市场在未来几年将快速增长。
An increasing number of young consumers attach greater attention to low-carbon, sustainable consumption, with higher acceptance of used merchandise, said Ding Jian, president of Xianyu, Chinese tech heavyweight Alibaba Group Holding's online trading platform for secondhand goods.
中国科技巨头阿里巴巴集团控股的二手商品在线交易平台闲鱼总裁丁健表示，越来越多的年轻消费者更加关注低碳、可持续消费，对二手商品的接受度也更高。
Ding said the number of users on Xianyu has risen more than 20 percent year-on-year in two consecutive quarters, and he is bullish on the development prospects of China's secondhand products sector.
丁说，闲鱼的用户数量已经连续两个季度同比增长超过20%，他看好中国二手产品行业的发展前景。
"At present, the penetration rate of China's secondhand goods market only stands at 5 percent, while in some developed countries, the figure can reach about 20 percent," he said.
他说：“目前，中国二手商品市场的渗透率仅为5%，而在一些发达国家，这一数字可能达到20%左右。”。
It is noteworthy that the post-95 generation of consumers account for about 60 percent of total users, and have shown vibrant purchasing power for secondhand products purchased online, including through shopping vouchers and video-streaming website memberships, Ding said.
丁说，值得注意的是，95后消费者约占总用户的60%，他们对网上购买的二手产品表现出了旺盛的购买力，包括通过购物券和视频流网站会员资格购买的二手商品。
"The circulation and reuse of secondhand items can reduce carbon emissions due to the production of new goods," he said, adding that the company expects to serve more than 1 billion users and help drive carbon emission reductions of more than 55 million metric tons by 2030 by leveraging its advanced digital technologies.
他说：“二手物品的流通和再利用可以减少因生产新商品而产生的碳排放。”他补充说，该公司预计到2030年将为超过10亿用户提供服务，并通过利用其先进的数字技术，帮助推动碳减排超过5500万公吨。
More efforts will be made to encourage the development of the "internet plus secondhand" model, strengthen the management of online trading platforms, and provide standardized and regulated services for secondhand goods trading, said the NDRC.
国家发改委表示，将进一步鼓励发展“互联网+二手”模式，加强网络交易平台管理，为二手商品交易提供规范有序的服务。
Mo Daiqing, a senior analyst at the Internet Economy Institute, a domestic consultancy, said the country's secondhand goods market, which is still at a nascent stage, has huge growth potential and the penetration rate of online recycling and trading platforms is still relatively low.
国内咨询公司互联网经济研究所的高级分析师莫代青表示，中国的二手商品市场仍处于初级阶段，具有巨大的增长潜力，在线回收和交易平台的渗透率仍然相对较低。
"The booming sharing economy and changing consumption habits and concepts that are greener and more sustainable have stimulated massive growth of the secondhand economy," Mo said.
莫说：“蓬勃发展的共享经济，以及更环保、更可持续的消费习惯和观念的改变，刺激了二手经济的大规模增长。”。
She added that sellers have more information than buyers before transactions occur on secondhand platforms, which may result in the appearance of some fake and inferior quality products and fraudulent behavior during transaction processes.
她补充说，在二手平台上进行交易之前，卖家比买家拥有更多的信息，这可能会导致一些假冒伪劣产品的出现，以及交易过程中的欺诈行为。
"How to deal with the above issues and establish mutual trust between sellers and buyers is key to the healthy development of the secondhand market," Mo said.
莫说：“如何处理上述问题，建立买卖双方的互信，是二手市场健康发展的关键。”。
Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Communication Law Research Center at the China University of Political Science and Law, said that in order to better regulate the emerging sector, online secondhand platforms should increase investment in after-sales services, carry out third-party identification aimed at some used goods with high value, and promote insurance coverage options for secondhand items.
中国政法大学传播法研究中心副主任朱巍表示，为了更好地规范新兴行业，网络二手平台应该加大售后服务投入，针对一些高价值的二手商品进行第三方鉴定，并推广二手商品的保险覆盖选项。
"The center in Chengdu is expected to drive the development of related sectors, which include the trade of secondhand aircraft, aircraft maintenance, repair, dismantling, and green recycling of aircraft.
“成都的中心预计将推动相关行业的发展，包括二手飞机贸易、飞机维护、维修、拆解和飞机的绿色回收。
On e-commerce platforms that trade secondhand products, Dimoo&KFC toys are already seen on shelves, with the set of six toys now priced at 768 yuan.
在交易二手产品的电子商务平台上，Dimoo和KFC的玩具已经上架，这套六件套的玩具现在售价768元。
The demand for secondhand housing has also increased steadily.
二手房的需求也在稳步增长。
It also worked with the China Environmental Protection Foundation on the Closing the Loop program for the collection of secondhand clothing in the group's stores in Beijing and in another 180 stores around China.
A resale channel retails secondhand but unused goods.
"Some of the cars are secondhand or entry-class, but it still highlights the improved income and living standard," said Li Youbo, manager of the South African branch of Hisense.
The online platform, operated under Autohome - a secondhand car dealing website also known as China’s Carfax, now has 27 bloggers posting information about car maintenance, remaking, and secondhand auto deals.
As the secondhand car market still lacks sufficient inspection and transactions systems, the information Chejiahao offers is appealing to auto buyers.
Earlier this year, China’s central government lifted restrictions on used car sales between provinces, enhancing business opportunities in the secondhand auto market.
com, one of China's largest electronics recycling platforms, plans to build a global online marketplace for trading secondhand digital items, marking an initial move to make inroads into overseas markets.
The platform, called Paijitang, could provide international sellers and buyers with improved services for secondhand electronic products such as disposal, standard rating and purchase, Chen said.
According to data from international information provider IDC and market research institute GFK, global mobile phone shipments exceeded 1.5 billion units in 2017, and secondhand phones are generally resold three to four times, which indicates huge potential in the sector.
There are major bottlenecks in trading secondhand digital products around the globe - consumer demand varies from region to region, and traditional trading models are relatively inefficient, according to Chen.
On Wednesday, Aihuishou announced the launch of intelligent recycling machines that can facilitate users in recycling their secondhand items.
All packaging materials used by Tmall, Alibaba's business-to-consumer service, will be made from environmentally friendly materials by 2020, while customer-to-customer service Taobao and secondhand market Xian Yu will use green bags in their on-demand services across 200 cities.
Tmall, Alibaba's business-to-customer site, will upgrade all packaging materials into environmentally friendly ones by 2020, while customer-to-customer service Taobao and secondhand market Xian Yu will adopt green bags in their on-demand services across 200 cities.
As the secondhand platform of Alibaba, Xianyu has access to the 120 million registered users and 400 million active online consumers on Alibaba ecommerce platforms.
The head of Xianyu Secondhand Cars, He Jia, said only about 20 percent of the profits are gained from direct trading.
The second is in housing prices, as the secondhand housing price index in China reached a peak in August 2021.
第二点体现在房价上，中国的二手房价格指数在2021年8月达到了峰值。
Coffee economy, metaverse, secondhand e-commerce and the camping mania.
Sheng said many of the businesses in the two villages-in-city are restaurants, secondhand home appliance shops, and convenience stores which are small in size and vulnerable to disruptions.
In her proposal to this year's two sessions, Dong said the nation should prohibit outdated appliances that are beyond their service lives from entering the secondhand market and rural areas, strengthen the promotion and subsidies for the replacement of old home appliances, unveil relevant plans, and provide special subsidies for green home appliance products with high energy efficiency.
She wanted to buy some secondhand stuff, and setting up an online group in a residential community is a popular and convenient way to achieve that.
The merchandise volume of China's secondhand market has grown from 300 billion yuan ($47 billion) in 2015 to over 1 trillion yuan in 2020, with products covering almost all consumption categories, according to a 2021 report on the resale industry by the Institute of Energy, Environment and Ecology, Tsinghua University.
Big data company Analysys said people aged under 35 are the major user base of secondhand online platforms.
The merchandise volume of China's online re-commerce has grown from 250 billion yuan in 2019 to over 370 billion yuan in 2020, accounting for 36 percent of the total secondhand market, said consultancy iiMedia Research.
In China's secondhand luxury goods market, Louis Vuitton has become the most popular brand, followed by Gucci and Chanel, according to a ranking released by Hongbulin, a secondhand luxury trading platform.
In the past, the Chinese used luxury goods market was in its infancy, because Chinese consumers were previously unwilling to buy secondhand products.
Compared with complicated distribution processes and slow delivery by some luxury brands, secondhand luxury trading platforms provide a more cost-effective alternative, the report said.
Multidimensional data, such as sales of used luxury products and number of orders, have showed secondhand luxury goods are becoming more accepted among domestic consumers.
For some experienced users, buying some classic styles and limited editions of secondhand luxury goods is also a new type of wealth management.
In some special areas, import licenses for mechanical and electrical goods will not be needed, while support for the development of secondhand car exports and new offshore international trade was also announced.
The plan document stated that more efforts will also be made to promote well-regulated growth in the secondhand market, promote the high-quality development of the remanufacturing industry, build a recycling system for waste materials, strengthen the recycling of agricultural and forestry wastes, strengthen the recycling and utilization of waste agricultural materials, and implement a circular agricultural development model.
More efforts will also be made to promote well-regulated growth in the secondhand market, promote the high-quality development of the remanufacturing industry, build a recycling system for waste materials, strengthen the recycling of agricultural and forestry wastes, strengthen the recycling and utilization of waste agricultural materials, and implement a circular agricultural development model.
In some special areas, the authorities have done away with licenses for mechanical and electrical goods, and support the development of secondhand car exports and new offshore international trade.
The new measures also include developing the secondhand car export business in Hainan, supporting the province's development of new types of offshore international trade and digital, technological and cultural trade and innovating modes of international cooperation in the service trade.
New measures also include developing the secondhand car export business in Hainan, supporting Hainan to develop new types of offshore international trade and digital, technological and cultural trade, boosting the exhibition economy and innovating the modes of international cooperation in service trade.
Some of these homebuyers opted for secondhand homes due to the scarcity of new residential projects in top Chinese cities, and that may also have boosted home prices in these cities, said experts.
Greater support will be given to expand automobile consumption, including fine-tuning restrictive measures on automobiles purchase, stimulating secondhand automobile market, and promoting new energy vehicle development.
While gem-level lab-grown diamonds are anything but popular in the secondhand market, mined diamonds aren't particularly welcomed either.
China's secondhand luxury goods market has grown to such a size that the potential value of all the products that could be traded could exceed 3 trillion yuan ($420 billion), said the Yaok Institute, a market research firm.
Handbags, clothing, footwear, watches, jewelry and wines are some of the product categories popular among Chinese consumers of secondhand luxury goods, market sources said.
Young female consumers have become the mainstay of the secondhand luxury goods market in China.
Zhang Mengxia, director of Luxury China of the UIBE, the first academic research and talent training institution for luxury products management in the country, said: "The trading volumes of the top eight luxury brands accounted for about 80 percent of the total transactions for secondhand luxury products, and some niche brands have gained in popularity.
"As Chinese consumers have diverse and specific fashion demand, unique designs of luxury products will drive secondhand luxury consumption.
"China's secondhand luxury products market boasts a large scale, but the circulation rate is still lower than that of developed markets such as Europe, the United States and Japan, Zhang said.
Experts expect strong growth of firsthand luxury goods to have a knock-on effect on the secondhand goods market.
Internationally, luxury brands have been showing an increasing interest in the secondhand market, with some companies launching their own secondhand trading platforms.
The increasingly active secondhand market is expected to help promote China's circular economy and green development, facilitating the country to achieve its dual-carbon goals, said Zhang Zhigang, former vice-minister of commerce.
"The adjustment of the VAT exemption period is beneficial to reducing transaction costs in the secondhand housing market and promoting accelerated recovery and development of the existing housing market," said Li.
After the policy was announced, there were over 700 additional secondhand housing listings across the city on a single day — Thursday — according to data from Beike, a real estate service agent focusing on sales of used properties.
As a move to invigorate the secondhand property market, the VAT exemption period for sales of residential properties in the city's Yuexiu, Haizhu, Liwan, Tianhe, Huangpu, Panyu, Nansha and Zengcheng districts has also been adjusted from five years to two years.
"The adjustment of the VAT exemption period is beneficial in reducing transaction costs in the secondhand housing market and promoting the recovery and development of the existing housing market," said Li Yujia, chief researcher of the housing policy research center of Guangdong Urban & Rural Planning and Design Institute.
In the secondhand market, inquiries from prospective homebuyers are rising sharply, at the same time, sellers are having a rethink.
The latter, she said, will increase secondhand home transactions in major urban areas and help improve market confidence in lower-tier cities.
They are also deeply involved in the buying and selling of secondhand vessels.
As the gift was handed out immediately, it was then priced at over 1,000 yuan on secondhand platforms.
Yin said that while transactions of secondhand homes are mostly heating up in big cities, where the prices of transaction services are also the highest, it's possible that the potential of the homebuying market in these cities can be further catalyzed by the issuance of the new guideline.
"The real estate sector has grown increasingly critical for China's growth and development, with property transactions, particularly the transaction of secondhand homes, severely relying on real estate agencies", said Li Yujia, a researcher at the housing policy research center of the Guangdong Urban & Rural Planning and Design Institute.
""The good thing is that so far, transactions of secondhand homes have picked up and housing prices in several cities have recovered.
Despite the impact of COVID-19, China's luxury market has been flourishing and is showing on new trends in recent years, especially secondhand luxury trading, supported by relatively lower prices and a large consumer base.
尽管受到COVID-19疫情的影响，近年来中国奢侈品市场依然保持繁荣，并展现出新的发展趋势，尤其是在二手奢侈品交易方面，其凭借相对较低的价格和庞大的消费群体得到了有力支撑。
Having been engaged in the luxury trading sector for years, Liu Min, based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, described secondhand luxury trading in communities as "bamboo shoots", and is attracting more entrepreneurs nationwide.
在四川成都从事奢侈品交易行业多年的刘敏描述称，社区中的二手奢侈品交易正如“雨后春笋”般涌现，并且正在吸引着全国越来越多的创业者。
Boasting low prices and operating costs, secondhand luxury trading in communities is becoming a major trend in China, experts said.
专家表示，凭借低廉的价格和运营成本，二手奢侈品交易在中国社区正逐渐成为一种主流趋势。
"With fewer concerns over operating costs, secondhand luxury dealers can sell luxury goods at relatively low prices, which are barely seen in booths in malls, in communities," said Lyu Xiaotong, an independent investment expert based in Wuhan, Hubei province.
Zhang Yi, based in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, who used to be engaged in overseas shopping business, opened a secondhand luxury store in a community recently.
"I just bought a secondhand LV bag at 8,000 yuan ($1174.2) at a secondhand luxury shop nearby where I live.
With more diversified market patterns, secondhand luxury trading will gain popularity gradually.
Shi Songpo, vice-president of Lock Capital, said: "High-end communities are the main 'battlefield' for secondhand luxury dealers and they should secure as many stable sourcing channels as possible.
"The 2022 White Paper on China's Cyclical Fashion Industry, issued by the Central University of Finance and Economics, Sina Fashion and secondhand luxury trading platform Hongbulin forecast that by 2025, China's secondhand luxury market will surpass 100 billion yuan.
Items in hot demand as market offers significant growth potentialChina's booming secondhand luxury market has fueled online and offline sales in recent years as more consumers eye cost-effective top-range products.
According to iResearch, a leading provider of online audience measurement and consumer insights in China, the value of idle luxury goods in the nation, including valuable secondhand accessories, jewelry, watches, high-end clothing and handbags, reached 2.87 trillion yuan ($392 billion) in 2020, and is expected to stand at 3.9 trillion yuan by 2025.
Feng Peikang, general manager of the China Luxury Exhibition Center in Shanghai, said, "The large stock of idle luxury goods has laid a solid foundation for the long-term development of the secondhand luxury industry, which has gradually transformed its method of trading between sellers and buyers from traditional offline exhibitions to livestreaming platforms.
"The center, which opened in August by Douyin and a local secondhand luxury brand Feiyu, and is the first of its kind in Shanghai, offers 85 stands for rent, nine themed livestreaming studios, an authentication center operated in collaboration with China Certification & Inspection (Group) Co, and a consignment service center.
Our mission is to promote the circular economy in the secondhand luxury market by being the trading center and digital center for secondhand luxury goods and the incubation center for livestreamers.
"Offline sales were long the main transaction channel for trading in secondhand luxury goods.
Feng said, "Once the secondhand luxury industry becomes more standardized and digitalized, more businesses will join us.
"In the past five years, the global secondhand luxury market has grown by 64.7 percent, with leading luxury trading platforms recently recovering well from the COVID-19 pandemic.
"China's secondhand luxury goods market has great potential for further development, because more companies are emerging to provide one-stop distribution services, Zhou said.
Nowadays, such rejected devices are finding their way to online platforms, which either resell them as secondhand goods at attractive prices or channel them to recycling firms if they are deemed low-value items.
An increasing number of young internet-savvy shoppers, who are also environmentally conscious, are doing away with old habits of rejecting pre-owned goods and instead are looking for high-quality and affordable products on secondhand trading platforms.
Shanghai-based electronics recycling platform ATRenew Inc, formerly known as Aihuishou — "love of recycling" — focuses on the trading and recycling of secondhand electronic products such as cameras, phones and laptops, with an aim to minimize the negative impact of discarded consumer electronics on the environment.
The company now operates four business lines, covering consumer-to-business or C2B electronics recycling platform Aihuishou, B2B used electronics trading platform Paijitang, B2C secondhand platform Paipai as well as AHS Device, which concentrates on electronics recycling in the global market.
It has collaborated with smartphone makers to launch the "trading in an old one for a new one "service, established standardized quality inspection systems, and improved after-sales services for secondhand electronic devices.
In 2019, the company merged with Paipai, a secondhand trading platform backed by e-commerce behemoth JD, in a bid to further standardize the electronics recycling process and improve efficiency by leveraging JD's retail, logistical and technological strengths.
Li added he would probably opt for a formal channel that offers a clear and reasonable price for secondhand commodities.
The market scale of China's secondhand consumer electronic products is expected to amount to 967.3 billion yuan in 2025 from 252.2 billion yuan in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate reaching 30.8 percent during this period, according to consultancy CIC.
The NDRC has called for efforts to accelerate the establishment of a recycling system for waste goods and materials, improve the discarded goods recycling network, enhance the processing and utilization of renewable resources, and develop the secondhand goods trading and refurbishing industry in an orderly manner.
Its intelligent sorting, warehousing and quality inspection center for different types of secondhand goods in Qingdao went into operation in July.