Alibaba 1688 Wholesale Network is real.

1688.com is the new domain name used by Alibaba China (alibaba.com.cn).

1.1688 will be positioned in the online procurement wholesale market to help factories, brand owners, and first-level wholesalers introduce a large number of buyers, including Taobao online shop owners with a scale of 100,000, offline city physical store owners with a scale of 10 million, and existing wholesale market buyers with a scale of 10 million. It will provide a series of trading tools to create the world's largest wholesale market.

2.1688 takes wholesale and procurement business as its core, improves customer experience through professional operation, and comprehensively optimizes the business model of corporate e-commerce. At present, 1688 has covered 16 major industries such as raw materials, industrial products, clothing and accessories, home furnishings, and small commodities, providing a series of supply services from raw material procurement-production and processing-spot wholesale.

3. On April 12, 2018, Alibaba 1688 held a summit in Guangzhou. The first anniversary of the launch of the Alibaba 1688 cross-border dedicated market platform, the first report card was disclosed to the public: As of the end of March, nearly 500,000 small and medium-sized enterprises have provided services to platforms such as AliExpress and Amazon through the 1688 cross-border platform, covering 220 countries and regions around the world; within a year, the transaction scale and buyers of the cross-border dedicated market have increased by more than 4 times.

Extended information

To find the source of goods on 1688, do the following:

1. Open the 1688 homepage, switch to select the required information type, you can choose "product", "supplier", "purchase", etc. Then enter the product keywords you want to search in the search bar, such as: women's clothing.

2. Click the search button on the right side of the search bar to browse all product supply information containing the keyword "women's clothing" on the website.

3. You can narrow the search scope of products or suppliers by industry category, product location, information time range, company business model, etc.

4. After selecting a supplier, if there is a supplier's contact information, you can click to inquire about the product information, or click on the online inquiry page on the supplier's homepage. After clicking, the product inquiry page will appear. Fill in the product information you want to purchase in the inquiry form, click to send the inquiry form, and the supplier will receive this inquiry form.