E-Commerce Forum to be held in Tashkent jointly with Alibaba Group Corporation
E-Commerce Forum, seminars and trainings for entrepreneurs, as well as master-classes and individual consultations for exporters having difficulties in exporting on trade market are planned to be held on October 8-15 this year in Tashkent in cooperation with Alibaba Group Corporation. Five leading experts of Alibaba Group Corporation will take part in the event.
The event is expected to be the biggest in terms of coverage not only in Central Asia, but also among the CIS countries.
The news that Uzbekistan has entered the global trading platform Alibaba last week spread around the Internet community of our country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan reveals the details of Uzbekistan's entry into the global trading platform Alibaba.
According to the distributed message: The official opening ceremony of the National Pavilion of Uzbekistan at the prestigious international electronic trading platform was held in China. Alibaba.com is a leading Chinese trading platform with an annual turnover of $106 billion. The main activities are B2B trading between companies and online retailing.
Among the CIS countries, Uzbekistan's pavilion on Alibaba.com is the third after Russia and Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan's national pavilion includes over 50 domestic companies with over 4,800 types of goods.
So, cooperation agreement was signed between the Export Promotion Agency under the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan and Alibaba Group Corporation. The goal is to establish exports of national products on the massive Chinese e-commerce platform. As part of the agreement, the Agency provided financial support of 4.6 billion sums to 70 local exporting enterprises to register their products on the Alibaba marketplace.
The milestone event itself took place on September 13 this year. On that day, on Alibaba platform was launched permanent national pavilion of Uzbekistan, which hosted more than 100 names of the most quality and popular products of 3 major industries - textile, agriculture, food industry.
The Export Promotion Agency under the MIFT is planning to organize an e-commerce forum in Tashkent jointly with Alibaba Group Corporation in order to continue the promotion of the sector in a structured manner.
