In Southeast Asia, the Indonesian data center will be expanded again in 2020, and an ecological alliance will be established in the Philippines to accelerate its entry into the Philippine market. In the current environment, Alibaba Cloud can be said to be one of the few domestic technology companies that still insist on going out of the sea.
Alibaba Cloud’s more imagination is that the current digitalization is becoming the main driving force of the new economy. The black swan event will become an accelerator of the cloud computing industry to some extent-many industries will have a profound impact in the next few years, and cloud computing players will have more growth potential.
Therefore, if Alibaba Cloud is placed under the background that Chinese Internet companies are frequently blocked from going out to sea, then from zero breaks to the first place in the Asia-Pacific, and the firm internationalization strategy in the current environment, there will be more Multi-sample meaning.
Ali’s journey to sea is not without regrets. Ali said that it will stop UC web and other innovative services in India, but it will not affect the group as a whole.
This means that although globalization is Ali’s long-term strategy, it will adjust its strategy accordingly according to current environmental changes. As Zhang Yong said: “We believe that international trade and cooperation will continue. We also believe that Ali’s mission and practice of’making the world easy to do business’ is in the interests of both China and the United States.”
03 The integration and coordination of local life accelerate
It is also worth noting that in the 2021 Q1 fiscal season, the Ali ecosystem is continuously accelerating.
This is mainly reflected in Are you hungry? Ele.me achieved a positive profit per order (UE, Unit Economics) this quarter. At the same time, the number of registered merchants continued to grow by more than 30%, and 45% of new consumers came from Alipay.
In the past few months, Ele.me has moved frequently. In July, Ele.me announced a full upgrade. Ele.me CEO Wang Lei said that Ele.me has upgraded from delivering food to delivering everything and services, and will continue to focus on consumers’ “economy around them” and serve users’ lives in the same city.
At the end of July, at the Alipay Partner Conference 2020, Alipay released a series of support policies for small and micro businesses, trying to use Alipay’s traffic to divert local life businesses and attract more small takeaway businesses.
On August 19, Ele.me Hummingbird will cooperate with Intime Department Store to upgrade the “timed delivery” service. Nearly 50 Intime stores in 26 cities nationwide