The development history of 1688, the development history of Alibaba, detailed?

There are four stages of development of Alibaba's 1688 platform.

In September 1999, 18 founders under the leadership of Jack Ma officially established Alibaba Group in their apartment in Hangzhou.

In January 2000, Alibaba Group raised US$20 million from SoftBank and several other investment institutions.

In February 2004, Alibaba Group raised US$82 million from several first-tier investment institutions, making it the largest private placement in China's Internet industry at that time.

In October 2005, Alibaba Group signed a cooperation agreement with Yahoo China to acquire and take over Yahoo China.

In September 2012, Alibaba Group completed an initial share repurchase of Yahoo and restructured its relationship with Yahoo.

On April 18, 2016, Alibaba Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with New Zealand's Development Authority (NZTE), a designated agency in New Zealand.

Alibaba Group, an international Internet company founded by Chinese; Operate a diversified Internet business, and strive to create convenient trading channels for everyone in the world; Since its establishment, the Group has established leading consumer e-commerce, online payment, B2B online marketplace and cloud computing businesses, and in recent years, it has been actively exploring the fields of wireless applications, mobile operating systems and Internet TV. The Group's goal is to promote an open, collaborative, and thriving e-commerce ecosystem, with the aim of contributing to consumers, merchants, and economic development.

Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, an English teacher, and 17 other people, Alibaba Group is privately held and serves Internet users from more than 240 countries and regions. The Group and its affiliates employ more than 20,400 people in more than 70 cities in Greater China, India, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States.

In 2010, 2012 and 2013, Alibaba Group announced three times that Alibaba employees would be given special red envelopes in addition to their 13 salaries as incentives. On February 13, 2015, Jack Ma said that after careful consideration and discussion, Alibaba Group's management decided not to distribute the 2014 red envelopes.

The seven-minute video looks back at Alibaba's 18-year history, Jack Ma and his business empire.

The development history is not important, the important thing is that Ali's plan for 2015 this year is to focus on building a wholesale platform for integrity, and take action if you are optimistic.

Founded in 1999 in Hangzhou, China, by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former English teacher, Alibaba Network Technology **** believes that the Internet can level the playing field, allowing small businesses to expand their business through innovation and technology and be in a better position to compete in the domestic or global market.

Alibaba Group operates a number of businesses and receives support from its affiliates in operating its business ecosystem. The business and the business of affiliated companies include: **.com, Tmall, Juhuasuan, AliExpress, Alibaba International Marketplace, 1688, Alimama, Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial, Cainiao Network, etc.

On September 19, 2014, Alibaba Group was officially listed on the New York ** Stock Exchange, **** "BABA", and the founder and chairman of the board of directors is Jack Ma.

For the whole year of 2014, Alibaba's total revenue was 100 million yuan and net profit was 100 million yuan.

In June 1999, Alibaba Group was officially launched.

In October 2000, in order to better promote Chinese sellers to enter Nahe Jinxing for export, the company launched the "China Top Merchant" service.

In June 2001, in order to better serve international sellers, the company launched the international station "Integrity Pass" membership.

In March 2002, the company launched the "Chengxintong" membership program in China to better serve the sellers and buyers engaged in China.

In October 2003, the company launched the communication software tool "**Tong", which can enable buyers and sellers to communicate in real time through the Internet.

In March 2005, Alibaba Chinese launched keyword bidding service.

In April 2007, Hong Kong launched the "China ** business" service to promote exports.

In August 2007, the listing application was submitted to the Hong Kong ** Stock Exchange.

In October 2007, it was successfully listed. In the future, Alibaba China will be positioned in the online procurement wholesale market to help factories, brands, and first-class wholesalers introduce a large number of buyers, including 100,000-level **** shopkeepers, million-level offline city entity shopkeepers, and tens of millions of existing wholesale market buyers, providing a series of trading tools to create the world's largest wholesale market.

It is understood that Alibaba bought the 1688 domain name and positioned it as an "online wholesale market", which is Alibaba's "wide goods to win the world" plan, which is aimed at all clothing manufacturers and wholesalers who can provide spot and wholesale. Alibaba will invest 100 million in advertising promotion in CCTV and other **.

It was learned from relevant sources of Alibaba that Alibaba's 1688 wholesale market had landed on CCTV1 at 7:45 p.m. on March 1, 2010, officially involved in the online wholesale business. 1688 Wholesale** will be officially launched on March 8, when the 88-hour flash sale will be launched.

A few days ago, Hu Ge**'s new work "Home Animals" was launched, and the "House Animals" that went viral on the major **** was implanted with 1688 brand advertisements, which sprung up in various ****, which is actually a brand promotion plan of Alibaba.

Login to 1688** can see its "grand opening" trend, the lower part of the page has a significant advertising slogan "Alibaba 1688 wholesale market, grand opening in March, please look forward to it", a flash promotional animation is marked "shopping on **, wholesale on 1688".

Alibaba was founded in March 1999. With an investment of 500,000 yuan, Alibaba China Holdings was established in Hong Kong in July 1999, which is the head office, and Alibaba (China) Network Technology was established in Hangzhou in September, which is the headquarters in China, with 20,000 members at this time; In October, 5 million US dollars of venture capital funds were introduced; At the end of 1999, there were 10,000 members; In January 2000, Nippon Internet Investment Co., Ltd. invested 20 million US dollars; 500,000 members in 200 years; In June 2001, the Korean station was officially opened in Seoul, South Korea; In December 2001, it began to make profits, with 1 million registered merchant members, becoming the world's first business network with more than one million members; In February 2002, Japan Asia Investment Corporation invested; In March 2002, it established an honest online business community with merchant members; In October 2002, the Japanese** language was officially opened; At the end of 2002, it made a profit of 6 million yuan; In May 2003, it achieved 1 million yuan per day in advance of the month; On July 7, 2003, it was announced that it would invest 100 million yuan to build Alibaba only to do information flow, not capital flow and logistics business.

The following points can be seen from Alibaba's memorabilia:

In 1999, in the early days of Alibaba's business, the founder Ma Yun worked hard to promote his e-commerce theory, which caused great repercussions at home and abroad. From 2000 to 2001, Alibaba carried out the development of various application systems, and at the same time continued to re-develop and sublimate business theories; In 2002, it put forward the profit goal, developed the domestic market, and began to try to combine with the exhibition; In 2003, we continued to expand the market, accelerated the combination with the exhibition, and began to vigorously cooperate with various enterprises to provide users with value-added services. In the past few years, Ali has been constantly exploring how to develop e-commerce, participating in various world-wide forums, constantly contacting users, understanding the needs of users, so as to provide users with more and more popular services. In the process of development, Ali develops service functions together with related companies, so that the breadth and accuracy of information are guaranteed; It cooperates with large enterprises at home and abroad, and at the same time develops the SME market, and he occupies the market through his own popularity and uses training methods.

In short, all of Ali's services are based on the needs of his users.