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Who owns DHgate?
DHgate.com is run by several entities within the Dunhuang Group, according to its terms of use, and the DHGATE Group is headquartered in China. As of our check of 28 October 2026, no listing or higher parent company is confirmed, and these facts come from the site's terms of use, its About page and Wikidata.
Checked on by AnyFact's AI Business Check, with a fresh look at Wikidata, the LEI register and the sources linked below.
Ownership chain
From dhgate.com to its owner
Website
dhgate.com
DHgate's website
Runs the site · top of the chain
Dunhuang Group entities
Several entities operate dhgate.com; group headquartered in China
Sources:dhgate.comdhgate.com
The sources do not all agree
One DHgate blog page (undated) calls Alibaba its parent company. The terms of use and About page name the Dunhuang Group and DHGATE Group instead, and no other source mentions Alibaba, so we do not use that claim in the chain.
Sources:dhgate.comdhgate.com
Leaders and founders
The people behind DHgate
Diane Wang · Founder, chairperson and CEO of DHGATE Group
Sources:dhgate.comwikidata.org
What the registers say
- Wikidata, in our check
Known organisation: DHgate.com (Wikidata), based in China
Source:wikidata.org
- Company register, in our check
2 web results mention DHgate with registration terms (not verified)
Dated, from the sources
How DHgate's ownership changed
2004
Diane Wang founded DHgate in Beijing; it launched officially in 2005.
Source:en.wikipedia.org
2022
DHgate.com was announced as having evolved into DHGATE Group, with a new group structure.
Source:businesswire.com
Our method
How to find out who is behind any other site
Read the site's own legal pages
Terms of use, privacy policy, imprint or legal notice: they name the company you contract with. For dhgate.com, the operator in the chain above comes from pages like these, from filings or from Wikidata.
Look that company up in a register
Companies House in the UK, SEC EDGAR for US public companies, the French Annuaire des entreprises, and the GLEIF LEI register worldwide give its legal name, number, address and status.
Follow it to its parent
Wikidata records parent organisations, owners and stock listings with dates; annual reports and filings confirm them. Check the date of each source: Wikidata can lag behind a sale.
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Questions about who owns DHgate
Who owns DHgate?
According to its terms of use, dhgate.com is operated by several entities within the Dunhuang Group. Our AI could not confirm a higher parent company or shareholders automatically.
Source:dhgate.com
Is DHgate a Chinese company?
The sources place it in China. Its About page says DHGATE Group is headquartered in China, and Wikidata gives Beijing as the headquarters location.
Sources:dhgate.comwikidata.org
Who is the CEO of DHgate?
Diane Wang is the founder, chairperson and CEO of DHGATE Group, according to the group's own About page. Other profiles, such as Women in Retail and Forbes Books, describe her in the same way, as founder and chief executive of the group.
Who founded DHgate?
Diane Wang founded DHgate in Beijing in August 2004, according to Wikipedia, and Wikidata also lists her as founder. Wikipedia adds that the platform was officially launched in 2005. The domain dhgate.com was registered on 21 September 2004.
Is DHgate publicly traded?
Our AI could not confirm automatically any stock exchange listing or ticker for DHgate or the Dunhuang Group. None of the sources we read gives one.
Source:tracxn.com
Has DHgate changed its corporate structure?
In July 2022 DHgate.com was announced as having evolved into DHGATE Group, under a new group organizational structure. The announcement came from Diane Wang, who is named as founder, chairperson and CEO of the group, and was published on Business Wire.
Source:businesswire.com
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