Launched in 1999, Alibaba is the world's largest online wholesale market, providing users with high-quality products and services from all walks of life, helping suppliers easily carry out international trade and expand the global market.
Alibaba (Alibaba.com) is a well-known brand of global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. It is the largest and most active online trading market and merchant community in the global international trade field. It has successfully integrated B2B, C2C, search engines and portals to help global customers and partners achieve success. Its good positioning, solid structure, and excellent services make Alibaba the world's first e-commerce website with more than 8 million online merchants. It is spread in 220 countries and regions. It provides 8.1 million pieces of commercial supply and demand information to companies and merchants around the world every day., becoming the preferred website for global merchants to promote online, and is rated as the "most popular B2B website" by merchants. Among them, Alibaba's website consists of three connected websites: China website (www.1688.com)(china.alibaba.com), which mainly serves the Chinese market; International website (www.alibaba.com), which provides professional services to global businessmen; and Japanese website (japan.alibaba.com), which mainly serves the local Japanese market.