1688 is the flagship business of Ali Group and the leading domestic trade e-commerce platform for small enterprises in China. Ma Yun founded the Alibaba website in 1999, the predecessor of 1688. As a subsidiary of Ali Group, 1688 represents the interests of enterprises in the CBBS e-commerce system, providing business opportunity information and convenient and safe online transactions for tens of millions of buyers and suppliers around the world, and it is also a real interactive community where businessmen are friends with chambers of commerce.

On April 2, 2118, Alibaba 1688 held a summit in Guangzhou. The first anniversary of its launch, the Alibaba 1688 cross-border exclusive market platform disclosed its transcripts for the first time. By the end of March, nearly 511,111 SMEs had provided services to AliExpress, Amazon, Wish, eBay, lazada and other platforms through the 1688 cross-border platform, covering 221 countries and regions around the world.

therefore, cross-border e-commerce can make money by getting goods through 1688.