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Revenue (Tables)

12 Months Ended

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

						26,970			42,832			59,732
	Wholesale (ii)					2,197			2,300			3,205

	Total China commerce					29,167			45,132			62,937

	International commerce
	Retail (iii)					392			938			1,768
	Wholesale (iv)					3,768			3,913			4,718

	Total international commerce					4,160			4,851			6,486

	Cloud computing and Internet infrastructure (v)					650			773			1,271
	Others (vi)					540			1,748			5,510

	Total					34,517			52,504			76,204

(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

	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

	Total					34,517			52,504			76,204

(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.