Taobao is an online shopping website of China Alibaba Group, which was founded by Ma Yun on May 1th, 23.

is a C2C shopping website for consumers in Chinese mainland, Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province and Malaysia (B2C mode website-Tmall has been dismantled). Individuals or enterprises can open their own online stores on Taobao. In addition, Taobao also has an auction platform. On June 16th, 211, the website was split into Taobao, Tmall and Yitao.

on the morning of January 11th, 212, Taobao Mall officially announced its name change to "Tmall".

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History of Taobao

In April p>23, Ma Yun and 1 employees planned the construction of Taobao in Hangzhou.

on may 1th, 23, Taobao was formally established.

in p>26, the turnover of Taobao reached 16.9 billion, exceeding the total online shopping market in China in 25, with over 3 million registered members.

In p>212, the transaction volume of Taobao and Tmall exceeded RMB 1 trillion, exceeding the sum of Amazon and eBay.

in p>214, Alibaba group went public in the United States.

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