The E-Commerce company Alibaba Group has introduced its own mobile operating system for mobile phones and tablets in China. The aim of company is to promote its online products in its home country as both Android and Apple’s iOS devices are increasingly popular in China.

Alibaba subsidiary Alibaba Cloud Computing launched the Aliyun operating system. A Chinese handset manufacturer, Beijing Tianyu Communications Equipment will launch the first smartphone running on Aliyun operating system by the end of July. Aliyun OS based tablet will also be unveiled in China later this year.

The President of Alibaba Cloud Computing, Wang Jian said, “The business model on the web is already established, if you can bring the web on to the phone, you can basically bring that business model on to the phone. ”

The Aliyun operating system can run Android apps and it can also run web-based apps built with JavaScript or HTML 5. The new mobile operating system has 20 “Cloud apps”, including Internet search and a barcode scanner to search products online that access Alibaba company services over the Internet.

The Aliyun OS also offers 100 GB of virtual data storage to each user over the Internet.