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A cyclist rides past a signboard of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou city, East China's Zhejiangprovince, June 25, 2014. [Photo/IC] |
Alibaba Group has set up an auto business division aimed at providing one-stop servicesranging from sales, second-hand car transactions to motor financing, announced the e-commerce behemoth on Wednesday.
The new division will integrate all motor related businesses within the Group and provide carowners with a variety of O2O (online-to-offline) motor services, said Alibaba in its micro-blogweibo account.
Wang Licheng, former general manager of its group-shopping platform Juhuasuan, will leadthe motor business division, according to the announcement.
The move comes as Chinese Internet giants move into the motor services.
Alibaba and SAIC Motor Corp announced on Mar 12 the founding of a 1-billion-yuan ($163million) fund to develop Internet connected vehicles.
Tencent launched a partnership in the same month with Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision IndustryCo and luxury car dealer China Harmony Auto Holding, to explore a business model tomanufacture and sell smart electric cars.
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