The company Alibaba for the day the world's largest global online sales on the occasion of the Bachelor Day in China sold goods to a record 168.2 billion yuan (about 25.3 billion dollars). This is 39% more than last year, according to official data of the company, Prime reports..

The company this year broke all records of the previous eight years, for example, Alibaba's total sales for the 2016 festival amounted to 120.7 billion yuan ($ 17.8 billion), this amount in 2017 was achieved in the first 13 hours after sales start. Most purchases - 90% - are carried out from mobile devices.

According to Alibaba, during the peak, the number of transactions per second reached 325 thousand. The first parcel was delivered to the customer already 12 minutes and 18 seconds after the start of the festival. Four hours before the end of the sale, the head of Cainiao (logistic service of Alibaba) Wan Lin said that the number of orders already completed for delivery exceeded 700 million. For comparison, last year, following the results of the entire 24-hour online sale, about 657 million parcels were delivered.

Day of the bachelor (Guanggunjie) is celebrated in China every year on November 11.