Dear readers:

The year of 2020 is surely an unforgettable one for us with ups.The“black swan”of COVID-19 caught the whole world off guard.Many sectors came to a standstill,businesses suffered sharp decline,and many people were experiencing devastating life.

It was difficult for 2020 in China.However,it witnessed the launch of new brands,the capital’s favor and support of daily chemical industry,as well as the pursuit of national brand trend among youngsters which outperformed the global counterpart.There is a good opportunity behind every bad thing.This is the nature of crisis.In 2020,the Perfect Diary went public,so did Blue Moon.A value worth of tens of billions RMB brought hope and enlightenment to daily chemical sector.Also,it triggers deep thoughts about the overall production and supply chain behind brands.Maintaining sustainability is the key.

Product remains the soul as always.Likewise,CDC,as the observer of the sector in the high ground,tries to cover more stories and optimize the articles by way of focusing hot-spot events,marketing and technologies.

Looking forward into 2021,the China cosmetic sector will embrace the new era of “basic law”.The regulation on cosmetics supervision and management of the latest edition will be put into force.Comprising of a total number of 13,000 words,80 articles,this new rule is connected with every person in cosmetics industry and covers the raw materials,brands,agencies,retailers as well as the third party advertisement service providers along the up-stream,middle stream and down-stream.

The era of new regulation heralds professionalism and higher threshold of“smart technology and content”.Numerous Chinese enterprises are faced with new challenges.It is also the opportunity for the group of professional knowledge.CDC will focus more on various shifts brought by new regulation and endeavour to release more highlights and hot-spot stories while keeping up with the times and winning the future.

In 2021,let’s keep hand in hand and“embark on the new journey”with growing intelligence!

Geng Tao

Editor-in-Chief