Alibaba’s B2C platform Tmall has a section offering online medicine purchase, on which the products are co-operated with other pharmacy e-tailers.
This January, Alibaba Group invested one billion yuan in Citic 21 Century, who owns 95095.com, a certified third-party medicine trading platform. Tmall has informed some medicine e-tailer on Tmall to work with 95095.com to set up their operation there.
95095.com is in trial operation and you can find it well integrated with Tmall. If logged in, it operates as being on Tmall with direct links to shopping carts and Tmall. The obvious benefit is, with qualified third-party medicine trading license, users on 95095 can buy medicines directly without having to going through authorization and redirects (as they need to on Tmall).
The data generated on 95095 is also very valuable to Alibaba whose CTO Wang Jian has been appointed as chairman and CEO of Citic 21 Century.