1688 successful on-line operation, the end of the day, the number of goods sold 3.06 million

March 9, Alibaba announced that the 1688.com was successfully online operation on March 8, formally integrated the original Alibaba China Station (alibaba.com.cn), the strategy to upgrade into a new "1688 platform", Alibaba said the goal is to create the world's largest online procurement wholesale market.

According to Alibaba disclosed that the 1688.com on-line day, the home page wholesale passenger traffic reached more than 6.39 million, the final transaction merchandise number 3.06 million pieces.

"2010, is the key year of China's small enterprise development after the economic crisis, is also Alibaba the next 10 years strategic launch year, Alibaba will concentrate the most advantageous strength, the richest resources, with unprecedented determination, decisive battle China domestic trade market." "The Chinese market has great potential and is now the fastest growing region in the world," said chief executive David Wei of Alibaba.

It is understood that Alibaba "1688 platform" after the line has covered clothing, small commodities, hardware, machinery and other almost existing enterprise class more than 6,000 industries, with more than 500,000 quality good faith pass suppliers, including 1亿5千多万条 commodity information, through the "shopping Taobao, wholesale 1688" E-commerce front-end, and brother company Taobao and Alipay together to achieve the Alibaba Group in the electronic commerce industry chain of coordinated warfare.

Alibaba CEO David Wei further explained: "1688 platform strategic positioning is the world's largest online procurement wholesale market, in the future will help the entity factory, brand, first-class wholesalers to introduce a large number of buyers, including the hundreds of thousands of-level Taobao shop dispensers, millions of the offline city entity shopkeepers, Tens's existing wholesale market buyers offer a range of trading tools and services. ”

It is reported that Alibaba 2007 listing in Hong Kong when the stock code is "1688", and then Alibaba spent heavily to buy 1688.com top-level domain name, the recent gold in CCTV 1688 ads hit.