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Silence, as silent as a needle falling!

After Jing Xiandong spoke, the executives who had been discussing enthusiastically shut their mouths!

"Giving up contact?" Even though many of the executives present had this thought, no one dared to speak out directly.

What are the contacts?Relations is the project that Ali is positioned as the core strategic level of the group this year. It is the project that the top leader Ma is now most concerned about and valued. It is also the project that the entire company has concentrated on for two years, from research and development to promotion and investment of several billion incubation projects.

Even though Mr. Ma and many Alibaba executives were overwhelmed by the "real" data they exchanged, and even the two main project leaders Li Wei and Zou Mengrui were "removed" from their posts, there has never been any executive who dared to be a horse. In general, say to give up on this project!

The more you give, the less reconciled it is. This is the mentality of Mr. Ma and many Alibaba executives for dealing with each other now!

However, at this time, it was Mr. Ma’s personal appointment as the invisible leader of the project team Jing Xiandong who proposed to "give up contacts". He is a confidant general of President Ma. With his current position and identity, many executives are in the heart. I'm all guessing, is this what Mr. Ma meant?

In the silence, President Ma broke the silent atmosphere:

"Xiandong, you just took over the project, you may not know enough about the project, it is normal to have pressure, I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer after you fully understand it!"

When Mr. Ma said this, many executives were surprised and wondered. Isn't this what Mr. Ma meant?So this is really Jing Xiandong's own thoughts!

Even Jing Xiandong, the person in charge of the exchange project team, has the idea to give up the exchanges. The executives here can't imagine what the exchanges will be like in Jing Xiandong's hands!

Jing Xiandong has a hard time saying that he still doesn't know enough about anything. The more he understands, the more he feels that the project is full of loopholes. If he wants to come back to life and turn things around, he might as well start a new project!

He was about to open his mouth to continue to argue, Zhang Yong, who was sitting next to President Ma, gave him a wink, and he suddenly closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Continuing the debate will only make it extremely embarrassing for President Ma to not come to Taiwan to make trouble. The reason why the exchange project has such a lofty status among the many projects of Alibaba is not unrelated to the support of President Ma. If the project team is now After cutting it, it will have a great impact on President Ma's face and prestige!

Like Tencent, Alibaba has a complicated shareholding structure. Although President Ma and other Alibaba founders have used the VIE structure and partner system to firmly control the power of the company, this does not mean that Alibaba shareholders such as SoftBank Yahoo will support President Ma from beginning to end. Tossing by the Ma total.

Whether it is the shareholder confidence crisis caused by the split of Alipay two years ago, or Alibaba spent 7.1 billion US dollars to buy back 20% of the shares from Yahoo some time ago, Ali’s major shareholders are active and exert a lot of influence.

The shareholders have always supported Mr. Ma because Mr. Ma has an incomparable influence and control over Ali. Many of his decisions in the past also seem to be quite correct and farsighted.

After Zhang Yong gave Jing Xiandong a wink, he returned to the discussion about the cooperation between WeChat and JD.com.

"Is it possible, our Tmall will replace JD.com and cooperate with WeChat!"

As soon as Zhang Yong said this, the executives who were present no longer had the intention to consider matters related to each other, and were attracted by the views in Zhang Yong's words.

"How is it possible? How could Huizhong let its own investment JD not cooperate and cooperate with our Tmall!"

"We have already signed a cooperation agreement with Tencent, and we will cooperate with WeChat. I'm afraid it is impossible!"

"Huizhong has invested in so many vertical e-commerce platforms, and then cooperates with us on Tmall. Isn't that right?"

Amidst the controversy among the executives, Zhang Yong slowly explained his reasons:

"First of all, I hope you will not consider whether you can reach a cooperation, first consider the pros and cons of our Tmall and WeChat cooperation and the pros and cons of JD's cooperation with WeChat!

Let me start!

Everyone knows that WeChat is the first Internet product in China’s Internet industry that has truly opened up foreign markets and has international markets. In addition to it and Huizhong that created it, the other three of our BATs have achieved foreign results. And market share is hardly worth mentioning.

In other words, even if we only use a secondary entrance to cooperate with WeChat, we also have an opportunity for internationalization!"

"But, I heard that WeChat only added a secondary entrance to the domestic version to cooperate with JD?" An executive interrupted.

Other executives glanced at the interrupting executive dissatisfiedly. Zhang Yong was not angry. He explained:

"It is true that the news released by WeChat now only adds a secondary portal to cooperate with JD in the domestic version, but this cannot be ruled out. WeChat will not add a secondary portal to cooperate with JD in the future.

At present, WeChat only adds secondary entry in the domestic version. I think on the one hand, it may be because JD’s current strength is limited to the first and second-tier cities in China, and it has not yet fully established itself in China, let alone any foreign countries.

In addition, there are e-commerce giants such as Amazon and eBay overseas. WeChat must also consider their ideas and resistance, and rashly send foreign secondary entrances to JD. This is not only for JD.com, but also WeChat and Huihui. The public faces many enemies and pressures.

Therefore, I think that WeChat will not continue to open overseas secondary shopping portals in a short time. Instead, we must first conduct experiments in China, and also look at the reactions of all parties and explore ways to respond!"

The executives nodded in agreement, and according to Zhang Yong's thinking, WeChat took this step forward steadily.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Yong continued:

"Although the opportunity of internationalization is only an opportunity, once it can be taken, it will be an opportunity for us to take off quickly for Tmall and Ali!

Closer, WeChat is the most popular, most promising, and most promising mobile social software in China and the world. It has close to 300 million users in China alone, and more than 80% of them are active. user.

Although Tencent has adopted many measures and defensive measures, users of QQ and other Tencent products are still losing to WeChat, and there is no way. At this point, we have to admit that WeChat does have its unique skills, no matter it is If others copy or block, there is nothing to do with it!

Such a large number of users and potential user growth potential on WeChat are enough to bring a large number of new users and consumers to our Tmall and the entire Alibaba platform. We cooperate with WeChat to develop social e-commerce, which is far better than with QQ. The benefits of cooperation are even greater!

These are all benefits. The downside is that if Tmall cooperates with WeChat, we will definitely lose a lot of benefits. As for the losses, we will discuss them later.

And if JD.com cooperates with WeChat, first of all JD.com will definitely enter a period of rapid growth and take-off. We will inevitably lose a lot of e-commerce market share in China.

To put it further, if JD.com gets the opportunity to cooperate with WeChat to go overseas, it will first come to our front. Whether we go to sea in the future or list overseas in the future, it will be greatly affected!"