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Also known as Taobao Marketplace, moubao, taobao.com

Taobao is a Chinese online shopping platform. It is headquartered in Hangzhou and is owned by Alibaba. According to Alexa rank, it was the eighth most-visited website globally in 2021. Taobao.com was registered on April 21, 2003 by Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

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Consumer-to-consumer and E-commerce
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Chinese
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Alibaba Group
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Active
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"Taobao" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
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ㄊㄠˊ ㄅㄠˇ

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.taobao.com
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inception
1985-00-00
Alexa rank
8
phone number
+86-571-8815-8198
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25 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Features
  • Shop feedback
  • Other features
  • Weitao
  • Taobao General Code
  • Public jury
  • Golden Cudgel
  • Services
  • Alipay
  • AliExpress
  • AliWangWang (TradeManager)
  • Baopals
  • Happy Taobao
  • Taobao Live
  • Singles' Day
  • Technology
  • Anti-fraud
  • Markets
  • Taobao for Southeast Asia
  • Controversies
  • Metrics
  • Taobao villages
  • References
  • External links

Taobao is a Chinese online shopping platform. It is headquartered in Hangzhou and is owned by Alibaba. According to Alexa rank, it was the eighth most-visited website globally in 2021. Taobao.com was registered on April 21, 2003 by Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and abroad, which is made payable by online accounts. Its stores usually offer an express delivery service.

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