page_title: BATX
section_title: Alibaba
hierarchical_section_title: BATX / Influences / Alibaba
caption_attribution_description: English: Alibaba Logo
context_page_description: BATX stands for Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, the acronym for the four biggest tech firms in China, counter-standing by GAFA in United States. BATX are few of the first tech companies started in the 2000s, in the rise of Chinese tech revolution and became widely used among Chinese netizens. Notably after 2015, some other tech companies like Huawei, DIDI, JD and ByteDance have also became some of the up-and-coming biggest tech giants in the industry.
context_section_description: Alibaba Group first started as an e-commerce company in 1999 in Hangzhou China. Now Alibaba Group has become a giant tech corporation which includes branches like e-commerce, entertainment, online payment, cloud-computing and AI technology. Its most famous C2C products would be Taobao and Alipay, which is closely incorporated into every Chinese online shopping experience. In 2017, Taobao.com is the third most visited website in China after Baidu.com and QQ.com. Taobao accounts for 58.2% of the e-commerce market share in China by 2018.
caption: Alibaba Logo