1. Taobao

Founded in 2003, Taobao is a business-oriented social platform that provides consumers with a participatory and personalized shopping experience through big data analysis.

On Taobao, consumers can obtain highly relevant and attractive content and real-time updates from merchants, so as to grasp product and trend information and interact with other consumers or favorite merchants and brands. Merchants on the platform are mainly self-employed and small businesses.

2. Tmall

Founded in 2008, Tmall is committed to providing consumers with a high-quality shopping experience for purchasing branded products. Many international and local Chinese brands and retailers have opened stores on Tmall.

Founded in 2010, AliExpress is a retail platform for global consumers. Its main buyer markets include Russia, the United States, Brazil, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. Consumers around the world can purchase products directly from Chinese manufacturers and distributors through AliExpress.

3. Alibaba International Market

Alibaba International Market is the first business established by Alibaba Group and is currently the leading global wholesale trading platform.

Buyers on Alibaba International Market come from more than 200 countries and regions around the world. They are generally trade agents, wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers and small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in import and export business. Alibaba International Market also provides import and export supply chain services such as customs clearance, tax rebates, trade financing and logistics to its members and other small and medium-sized enterprises.

4. 1688

1688 (formerly known as "Alibaba China Market") was founded in 1999 and is China's leading online wholesale platform, covering buyers and sellers in many industries such as general merchandise, clothing, electronic products, raw materials, industrial parts, agricultural products and chemical products.

1688 provides merchants operating businesses on Alibaba Group's retail platforms with a channel to purchase products from local wholesalers.

5. Alimama

Founded in 2007, Alimama is an online marketing technology platform that allows merchants and brands to place various advertising information on Alibaba Group's e-commerce platforms and third-party platforms. Through its affiliate marketing program, Alimama allows merchants to place advertisements on third-party websites and mobile clients, so that marketing and promotion effects can reach platforms and users outside Alibaba Group's e-commerce platforms.

6. Alibaba Cloud

Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group. According to Gartner and IDC, Alibaba Cloud is one of the world's three largest infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers and the largest public cloud service provider in China. Alibaba Cloud provides a complete set of cloud computing services to merchants on Alibaba Group's e-commerce platforms and global users such as startups, enterprises and government agencies.

7. Cainiao Network

Cainiao Network is a business of Alibaba Group, dedicated to meeting the current and future logistics needs of China's online and mobile commerce industries. The logistics data platform operated by Cainiao Network uses the capacity and capabilities of logistics partners to realize transactions between merchants and consumers on a large scale. In addition, Cainiao Network uses data insights and technology to improve the efficiency of the entire logistics value chain.

8. Ant Financial Services Group

Ant Financial Services Group focuses on serving small and micro enterprises and ordinary consumers. Ant Financial Services Group is building an open ecosystem and working with financial institutions to provide financial support for the future society. Ant Financial Services Group's businesses include Alipay, Ant Jubao, Sesame Credit and MyBank.