JD.com launches Jingxi, its online group-buying service focused on China's lower-tier cities and rural areas, to compete with Pinduoduo (Wency Chen/KrASIA)

Wency Chen / KrASIA:
JD.com launches Jingxi, its online group-buying service focused on China's lower-tier cities and rural areas, to compete with Pinduoduo  —  Beijing-based JD.com has launched its online group-buying service Thursday in a move to catch up with China's social e-commerce tide that gave rise …