Alibaba to add small and medium-sized US companies to its e-commerce sites

Alibaba's ambitious plan to create 1 million US jobs has highlighted the importance of the Chinese market to the incoming Trump administration while boosting the win-win economic relationship between China and the United States, analysts said.

Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma met US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday and laid out the e-commerce giant's plan to include 1 million small and medium-sized US businesses on its websites to sell to Chinese consumers over the next five years.