Tmall Plans to Link China's Consumers with Foreign Goods

(Beijing) – Tmall.com is planning to build a global procurement system to help Chinese consumers shop for foreign-made products, company Vice President Ma Xuejun says.

Ma said that the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group's popular business-to-customer platform would set up a partnership with the International Brand Management Center of the China Association of International Trade, a trade research association under the Ministry of Commerce, to develop an international purchase system in the next one to two years.