Alibaba.com Corporation is China 's leading e-commerce company, operating the world's largest online marketplaces for both international and domestic China trade, as well as China 's most popular online payment system, AliPay. Alibaba.com also owns and operates Yahoo! China, which it acquired in October, 2005.

Alibaba's Portfolio of Businesses

Alibaba International
( www.alibaba.com ) is an English-language website primarily serving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME's) in the international trade community, with nearly two million registered users from over 200 countries and territories. More than 300,000 people visit the site every day, most of them global buyers and importers looking to find and trade with sellers in China and other major manufacturing countries.

Alibaba China
( www.china.alibaba.com ) is China's largest online marketplace for domestic trade among businesspeople. With more than 7 million registered users, Alibaba China is a trusted community of members who regularly meet, chat, search for products and do business online. Customers pay an annual subscription fee for membership, which entitles them to post trade offers and products online. The subscription fee also includes authentication and verification of the member's identity, which is performed by a third-party credit agency.

AliPay Online Payment Solution
Completing China 's e-commerce transaction chain, Alibaba operates AliPay ( www.AliPay.com ) which enables any individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. To provide AliPay, Alibaba has partnered with China 's leading banks, including China Merchants Bank, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China , and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China .

Alibaba Awards and Honors
Alibaba.com is the only import-export marketplace named "Best of the Web" six years in a row by Forbes magazine. The site has also been selected as a "Top Website for Entrepreneurs" by US-based Entrepreneur magazine and the most popular B2B website by readers of the Far Eastern Economic Review, a leading financial magazine published by Dow Jones in Asia.
Alexa (www.alexa.com) - a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides independent web traffic ratings of websites around the world - ranks Alibaba the world's most popular site in the categories of Import-Export and International Business and Trade. Alexa also ranks Taobao.com as China's most visited auction marketplace and one of the top 30 websites in the world, ahead of all other e-commerce sites in China.

Alibaba's Team
Alibaba.com was founded in 1999 and is based in Hangzhou, eastern China. It has approximately 3,000 employees, 14 regional sales offices across China and other offices in Hong Kong, Silicon Valley, Europe, and Beijing.