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How Alibaba unlocked the door to online shopping in china

Reuters Published October 3, 2013
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China is already the world's biggest e-commerce market by some measures.

But how did that happen so fast in a country where consumers rarely trust what they can't touch?

Jeff Walters, Managing Director of the Boston Consulting Group, gives most of the credit to Taobao's customer review system and Alibaba's payment system Alipay.

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