With all the news about Taobao and Tmall, it’s easy to forget that Alibaba also has a giant, global B2B ecommerce platform that’s also growing. As of today, the Alibaba China site alone has more than 50 million users. Did we mention this is a B2B platform, not a consumer one? And that that number is just their China site? Impressive.
Interestingly, the site has also seen healthy growth in the number of registrations coming from central and western China — areas that are less economically developed than the prosperous east coast. As that region develops, Alibaba has seen registrations there climb, and can probably expect to continue to see growth in that area for some time to come.
The 50 million users number does include registered users in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, which are all considered part of China by the Chinese government, even if not everyone else agrees. Still, it’s a pretty impressive number!
[Via Sina Tech]
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