AliExpress's overseas buyers exceeded 150 million. The Middle East and Eastern Europe markets experienced explosive growth.

AliExpress's overseas buyers exceeded 150 million. The Middle East and Eastern Europe markets experienced explosive growth.

Source: Reference News Network Author: 2018-09-19 15:39:43
Taiwan media said that Alibaba Group's online trading platform for AliExpress, which is built for the global market, has exceeded 150 million overseas buyers.
On September 12th, Alibaba's AliExpress strategy conference was held in Hangzhou, and announced that the number of overseas buyers has exceeded 150 million. This is the latest transcript released after AliExpress announced the purchase of billions of buyers in April 2017.
50 million new buyers a year
Founded in April 2010, AliExpress is an online trading platform created by Alibaba for the global market.
After 8 years of development, AliExpress has attracted 150 million buyers worldwide to “crack up”. This means that since the cumulative number of buyers of AliExpress in April last year exceeded 100 million, the platform has added 50 million users. According to the data, AliExpress is currently ranked number one in shopping app downloads in more than 100 countries around the world. More than 200 million consumers visit AliExpress on a monthly basis worldwide.
In 2018, AliExpress global market expanded further and penetrated more than 220 countries and regions around the world. It became the only cross-border export B2C foreign trade trading platform in China that covers all countries and regions of the “Belt and Road”.
Over the past year, AliExpress has enjoyed a good momentum in the “Belt and Road” emerging markets such as the Middle East and Eastern Europe, thanks to the “Belt and Road Initiative” initiative. In the “828” promotion of the AliExpress, which ended last month, the “One Belt, One Road” emerging markets such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Spain experienced explosive growth, with the volume of transactions in the Middle East rising by as much as 252%. One of the Saudi local buyers bought 132 items in August, including furniture, tools, cups, lighting, 3C electronics, children's wear, toys, bikinis and more.
In this regard, Alibaba Global AliExpress general manager Wang Mingqiang said that in the coming year, AliExpress will quickly expand the "Belt and Road" new market, continue to deepen Russia, Spain, and force France, the Netherlands, Poland and other developed countries, breaking through Turkey The Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia have helped Chinese brands to “go to the sea” and help SMEs continue to advance on the “Online Silk Road”.
Half market in Europe is delivered in 72 hours
Globalization is one of the core engines of Alibaba's new business. It aims to help SMEs around the world achieve “global buying, global sales, global logistics, global payments”.
On September 11, Alibaba announced the establishment of a joint venture with the Russian social giant Mail.Ru Group and the national sovereign fund. It is a necessary step for Ali's globalization strategy, and it is a new attempt to integrate social and e-commerce.
"Express sells hopes to empower sellers to better integrate with overseas social media through product and technology, help SME sellers to connect with overseas consumers in a social way, and create e-commerce + social for overseas consumers. The new lifestyle.” AliExpress general manager Wang Mingqiang said that in the future, in other countries and regions outside Russia such as Europe and the Middle East, AliExpress will actively try to integrate deeply with the local social platform. At the same time, Alibaba will also enhance the seller's operating level through productization, intelligence, and data technology to optimize the user's purchasing experience and improve purchasing efficiency.
In AliExpress's largest overseas market, Russia, through the efforts of AliExpress and rookie, Russia's logistics services have fully completed the digital upgrade. Today, the self-reporting cabinets from China have covered more than 2,000 packages in 390 cities in Russia. The average aging time is increased to an average of 7-10 days.
At the same time, AliExpress has set up overseas warehouses in conjunction with rookies to place goods on the doorstep of consumers. Starting from these overseas warehouses, half of Europe's market has been able to deliver 72 hours, and Moscow's "Overseas Warehouse" has launched the "Day of Day" service in July this year, providing free day delivery for Moscow consumers