Anonymous ID: f17c34 March 6, 2018, 3:06 p.m. No.571717   🗄️.is 🔗kun

One way to ship children all over the world would be to use a major importer/exporter like Ali Baba which is owned by Jack Ma, a contributor to the Clinton Foundation

 

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Chinese: 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司; pinyin: Ālǐbābā Jítuán Kònggǔ Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a Chinese multinational e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology conglomerate founded in 1999 that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals, as well as electronic payment services, shopping search engines and data-centric cloud computing services. It owns and operates a diverse array of businesses around the world in numerous sectors, and is named as one of the world's most admired companies by Fortune.[2].[3]

 

At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO) - the world's highest, 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion.[4] As of January 2018, Alibaba's market cap stood at US$527 billion.[5] It is one of the top 10 most valuable and biggest companies in the world.[6] In January 2018, Alibaba became the second Asian company to break the US$500 billion valuation mark, after Tencent.[7]

 

Alibaba is the world's largest and most valuable retailer since April 2016,[8] with operations in over 200 countries,[9] as well as one of the largest Internet companies. Its online sales and profits surpassed all US retailers (including Walmart, Amazon and eBay) combined since 2015.[10] It has been expanding into the media industry, with revenues rising 3-digit percents year on year.[11][12] It also orchestrated China's Singles' Day into the world's biggest online and offline shopping day, with its own sales reaching over US$25.4 billion on 11 November 2017.[13][14]

 

In 2016, Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall, two of the world's largest and most popular online retail marketplaces, achieved a total transaction volume of 3 trillion yuan (US$478.6 billion). The company aims to double the transaction volume to 6 trillion yuan by 2020. As of February 2018, Taobao reached 580 million monthly active users, while Tmall achieved 500 million monthly active users.[15][16][17] It also provides an online digital distribution service 9Apps, which hosts huge amount of content and applications for downloads.[18]

 

Alibaba's affiliate Ant Financial was ranked sixth in Fortune's Change the World list, recognised for the positive green environmental impact of its Ant Forest, the world's largest platform for tracking individuals' carbon footprints. Ant Financial and its partners have achieved considerable success in the reduction of CO2 emissions.[19][20] Alibaba has also announced that it will invest 100 billion yuan over five years to build a global logistics network, underpinning an aggressive overseas expansion, and demonstrating Alibaba's commitment to building the most efficient logistic network in China and around the world. It is investing 5.3 billion yuan in Cainiao Smart Logistics Network to boost its stake to 51 percent from 47 percent.[21] The investment would value Cainiao, a joint venture of top Chinese logistics firms, at around US$20 billion. It is also rapidly expanding its e-commerce network abroad.[22]