Transaction volume of China's customer-to-customer (C2C) shopping market hit 31.17 billion yuan ($4.55 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2008, up 144 percent year-on-year, and 22 percent from the third quarter, driven largely by the shopping boom at the end of the year, according to Beijing-based research house Analysys International.

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