JollyChic is not a Saudi Arabian online shopping site; rather, it is an online retailer operated by a Chinese e-commerce company named Jolly Information Technology Co Ltd based in China's eastern city of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

In Riyadh, Jolly set up warehouses of more than 100,000 square meters, with a stock of over 15 million pieces of commodities.

Such warehouses enable Jolly to shorten the delivery time to two days from the previous 10 to 15 days, Li said.

Jolly alone employs 600 local staff in Jordan, 350 in Saudi Arabia, and about 100 in the UAE and Bahrain.

Sulaiman Azmi, a Saudi Arabian manager of human resources at Jolly's local branch, said the country is seeking ways to help young people find jobs, especially for women who find it hard to find jobs in the conservative nation.

Jolly hires women for positions like copywriter, designer and accountant, thus training a number of professionals for some countries in the region, Azmi said.

Li expressed confidence about Jolly's future in the Middle East.

Apart from the jolly island scenery, it has become a new reason for tourists to choose Hainan.

It was a jolly time," Li recalled.