Foreign trade e-commerce platforms include Amazon, eBay, alibaba, Global Sources, made in China, For buyers, Little Stupid Bird, etc.

1. Amazon

Amazon (Amazon for short; NASDAQ：AMZN) is the largest online e-commerce company in the United States, located in Seattle, Washington. Amazon was founded in 1995. At first, it only operated online book sales, but now it has expanded to a wide range of other products. It has become the world's largest online retailer and the second largest internet enterprise. Under the company name, it also includes subsidiaries such as AlexaInternet, a9, lab126 and Internet Movie Database (IMDB).

2. eBay

eBay (Chinese Electronic Bay, Yibei, Yi Bei) is an online auction and shopping website that allows people all over the world to buy and sell goods online. Ebay was founded in San Jose, California on September 4th, 1995 by Pierre Omidyar under the name of Auctionweb. People can sell goods online on ebay.

3. Alibaba

Alibaba Group operates a number of businesses, and also obtains support for operating the business ecosystem from the businesses and services of affiliated companies. Business and the businesses of affiliated companies include: Taobao, Tmall, Juhua, AliExpress, Alibaba International Market, 1688, Ali Mama, Alibaba Cloud, Ant Financial, Cainiao Network, etc.

B2B, a new e-commerce term, was put forward by Mr. Ma Yun, the current chairman of Alibaba Group. Now it has become a common vocabulary in the field of e-commerce. The two B's in the B2B platform of foreign trade both stand for Business, and "2" is the homonym of English "two" and stands for "to". Therefore, generally speaking, we still pronounce B2B as "B-to-B" in English, instead of "2" as Chinese pronunciation. But now many people are used to pronouncing "B2B" according to Chinese pronunciation, and it won't cause misunderstanding when talking about e-commerce, so it is usually understandable no matter how you pronounce it.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia.