Alibaba's transaction volume in 2012 reaches 1 trln yuan (5)

A staff member works at the reception desk of the headquarters of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online retail website Taobao.com in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 3, 2012. During a media briefing on Monday, the Alibaba Group, which owns Taobao.com and its business-to-consumer (B2C) counterpart Tmall.com, announced that the transaction volume of the two platforms has reached one trillion RMB (about 161 billion U.S. dollars) by the end of November 2012, ranking after east China's Guangdong, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in terms of social consumption goods retail volume as compared to the number of 2011.(Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)