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Management Discussion and Analysis<br />

The following table presents the breakdown of expenses of <strong>Alibaba</strong> Group that were not related to our B2B business<br />

but were included in our 2006 fi nancial results:<br />

Year ended December 31,<br />

2007 2006<br />

RMB’000 RMB’000<br />

Sales and marketing expenses — 83,186<br />

Product development expenses — 6,748<br />

General and administrative expenses — 47,573<br />

Total expenses not related to the B2B business — 137,507<br />

Revenue<br />

The following table presents, for the years indicated, a breakdown of revenue as well as the percentage of revenue:<br />

Year ended December 31,<br />

2007 2006<br />

RMB’000 % of revenue RMB’000 % of revenue<br />

International marketplace<br />

Gold Supplier members 1,503,331 69.5% 967,858 71.0%<br />

International TrustPass members 32,825 1.5 24,011 1.7<br />

Other revenue 11,539 0.6 — —<br />

Sub-total 1,547,695 71.6 991,869 72.7<br />

China marketplace<br />

China TrustPass members 594,098 27.5 369,653 27.1<br />

Other revenue 20,964 0.9 2,340 0.2<br />

Sub-total 615,062 28.4 371,993 27.3<br />

Total 2,162,757 100.0% 1,363,862 100.0%<br />

Mr. Mou-qing Li<br />

Wendi Electric Appliances Manufactures Plant Ltd.<br />

China<br />

“<strong>Alibaba</strong>.com helps<br />

a small company like<br />

ours do big business.”<br />

“We thought about<br />

e-commerce during the SARS<br />

outbreak in 2003, and got it<br />

started with <strong>Alibaba</strong>.com.<br />

Now our total online business<br />

volume has reached over<br />

RMB5 million.”<br />

Mr. Ting Li<br />

Shanghai Huading Technical<br />

Education Equipment Co., Ltd.<br />

China<br />

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