AliExpress is a platform that focuses on wholesale, but also allows retail. AliExpress, or Global AliExpress, is an online trading platform built by Alibaba for the global market, and is called the international version of Taobao by many sellers.

AliExpress was launched in April 2010. After more than three years of rapid development, it has now covered overseas buyers in more than 220 countries and regions. The daily traffic of overseas buyers has exceeded 50 million, with the highest peak reaching 100 million; it has become one of the world's largest cross-border trading platforms. However, in order to protect their own e-commerce, many countries restrict or prohibit their own people from cross-border online shopping. On the day of Double 11 in 2014, AliExpress completed 6.8 million orders, an increase of 60% over last year. As of 24:00 on November 11, Pacific Time, the countries and regions with the most orders from AliExpress include the Russian Federation, Brazil, Israel, Spain, Belarus, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, France, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, with a total order volume of more than 6.8 million.