The Alibaba group was founded in 1999 in China with the belief that the internet would level the playing field for small business, allowing them to compete more effectively in domestic and global economies. AliExpress is a part of the Alibaba group and is a global e-commerce platform made up of small businesses offering a massive variety of consumer products all over the world. AliExpress features more than one hundred million products supplied by more than 200,000 Chinese exporters and manufacturers.