page_title: Taobao
section_title: AliExpress
hierarchical_section_title: Taobao / Services and features / AliExpress
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Павильон Aliexpress на территории Ленинградского вокзала
context_page_description: Taobao is a Chinese
  online shopping website, headquartered in Hangzhou, and owned by Alibaba. It is the world's biggest e-commerce website and seventh most visited website according to Alexa. Taobao.com has registered 2003-04-21 with domain registrar Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.
  The website was founded by Alibaba Group in 2003. Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions and abroad, which is made payable by online cellphone accounts. Its stores usually offer an express delivery-service to their clientele.
  With over 1 billion product listings as of 2016, the combined transaction volume of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com reached 3 trillion yuan in 2017, more than that of all US e-commerce sites combined. The Economist calls it "the country's biggest online marketplace".
  Sellers are able to post goods for sale either through a fixed price or auction. Auctions make up a small percentage of transactions. The majority of the products are new merchandise sold at fixed prices.
context_section_description: AliExpress was created in April 2010 as an international retailing website. People who live overseas can use the service to purchase items from Chinese manufactures online.
caption: Aliexpress
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