Alibaba launches new B2B platform 1688.com

ZDNET China on Mar.8^th Beijing news : Alibaba plans to launch new platform 1688.com tomorrow. While based on the news on 1688.com, this website has been launched at 12 o’clock today.

Reporter finds that 1688.com which launches this noon is a new domain name of Alibaba. Based on this information, we guess 1688.com is just a part of 1688 platform. The PR department of Alibaba says details of 1688 new platform will be released tomorrow. Please stay tune for further information. 

The slogan on its page says “Shopping on Taobao, Wholesale on 1688” which reveals that 1688.com will be a big wholesale website to cooperate with Taobao. Alibaba who expands its business scope of e-commerce let its website dealers fulfill to stock online.

Many people may have been familiar with 1688.com.The new works of HuGe <Residential animals> let many netizens know 1688.com.This hit video which broadcasted on Internet before the Chinese New Year have many famous stars such as Hanhan joined in it.

It doesn’t happen by chance that the number 1688 is also the Hong Kong equity securities code of Alibaba. The domain name registration information of 1688.com shows that the owner of this domain name changed on Jan.7th, 2010.