China's e-commerce binge tests logistics, rakes in sales

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Masses of Chinese will be buying online goods during the country's version of Cyber Monday

Packages at the YTO Express shipping center in Shanghai.
Alibaba's Tmall site hours before Singles' Day begins.
The packaging center at YTO Express.
Trucks outside a shipping center of YTO Express.
Brian Lee, CEO of Sino Supreme
Alibaba CEO Jonathan Lu (left) and Alibaba COO Daniel Zhang.
Alibaba will kick off its Singles' Day shopping sale on Nov. 11.
An Alibaba sign at the company's offices in Hangzhou, China.
Alibaba is tracking the value of goods it sells during the Singles' Day holiday in China.