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Revenue (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Revenue |
Schedule of revenue breakdown |
|  |  | Year ended March 31, |
|  |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |
|  |  | (in millions of RMB) |
| China commerce |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Retail (i) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Online marketing services |  |  | 19,697 |  |  | 29,729 |  |  | 37,509 |
| Commission |  |  | 6,161 |  |  | 12,023 |  |  | 21,201 |
| Others |  |  | 1,112 |  |  | 1,080 |  |  | 1,022 |
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|  |  |  | 26,970 |  |  | 42,832 |  |  | 59,732 |
| Wholesale (ii) |  |  | 2,197 |  |  | 2,300 |  |  | 3,205 |
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| Total China commerce |  |  | 29,167 |  |  | 45,132 |  |  | 62,937 |
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| International commerce |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Retail (iii) |  |  | 392 |  |  | 938 |  |  | 1,768 |
| Wholesale (iv) |  |  | 3,768 |  |  | 3,913 |  |  | 4,718 |
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| Total international commerce |  |  | 4,160 |  |  | 4,851 |  |  | 6,486 |
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| Cloud computing and Internet infrastructure (v) |  |  | 650 |  |  | 773 |  |  | 1,271 |
| Others (vi) |  |  | 540 |  |  | 1,748 |  |  | 5,510 |
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| Total |  |  | 34,517 |  |  | 52,504 |  |  | 76,204 |
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(i) | Revenue from China commerce retail is primarily generated from the Company's China retail marketplaces.
(ii) | Revenue from China commerce wholesale is primarily generated from 1688.com and includes fees from memberships and value-added services and online marketing services revenue.
(iii) | Revenue from International commerce retail is primarily generated from AliExpress.
(iv) | Revenue from International commerce wholesale is primarily generated from Alibaba.com and includes fees from memberships and value-added services and online marketing services revenue.
(v) | Revenue from cloud computing and Internet infrastructure is primarily generated from the provision of services, such as data storage, elastic computing, database and large scale computing services, as well as web hosting and domain name registration.
(vi) | Other revenue mainly represents interest income generated from micro loans, revenue from online marketing and other services provided by UCWeb and AutoNavi and SME Annual Fee received from Ant Financial Services.
Schedule of revenue by type of service |
|  |  | Year ended March 31, |
|  |  | 2013 |  | 2014 |  | 2015 |
|  |  | (in millions of RMB) |
| Online marketing services |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| P4P and display marketing |  |  | 18,130 |  |  | 27,869 |  |  | 36,197 |
| Other online marketing services |  |  | 2,551 |  |  | 3,059 |  |  | 3,938 |
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| Total online marketing services |  |  | 20,681 |  |  | 30,928 |  |  | 40,135 |
| Commission |  |  | 6,412 |  |  | 12,778 |  |  | 22,705 |
| Membership fees and value-added services |  |  | 5,086 |  |  | 5,135 |  |  | 6,431 |
| Others (i) |  |  | 2,338 |  |  | 3,663 |  |  | 6,933 |
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| Total |  |  | 34,517 |  |  | 52,504 |  |  | 76,204 |
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(i) | Other revenue mainly represents revenue from cloud computing and Internet infrastructure, interest income generated from micro loans, revenue from online marketing and other services provided by UCWeb and AutoNavi, storefront fees and SME Annual Fee received from Ant Financial Services.

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