Reborn multinational giant

Mr. Ma's joke, "You don't need oars for rowing, rely on the waves", drew laughter from the audience.

This is also the reason why many people in China admire and like President Ma. His charisma and humor make many people feel cordial and grounded.

After the speech, the media reporters on the scene raised their hands one after another to be drawn by President Ma.

"Just now Fang Zhe started from the domestic media to the foreign media, then let's start with the foreign media this time!" Mr. Ma said, and then a beautiful foreign reporter with short brown hair was selected.

This beautiful reporter stood up, introduced her from the BBC first, and then asked Mr. Ma:

"Hello, Mr. Ma, I would like to ask whether Alibaba has a new listing plan in the past two years. After the cooperation between Tmall and Huizhong, does it plan to use Huizhong's overseas resource advantages to accelerate the process of internationalization?"

After listening to this beautiful reporter's question, President Ma nodded slightly, and said with consideration:

"Alibaba will definitely re-list in the future, but the specific listing time and listing plan are not convenient to disclose for the time being. Our main work at this stage is to stably transform to the mobile terminal and explore the unique e-commerce model of the mobile terminal.

Mr. Fang has already said that the cooperation between Tmall and Huizhong is firstly to tap and cultivate more e-commerce users from a large number of WeChat users.

The second is to explore a new type of social e-commerce model. In the process of cooperation between the two parties, Tmall may take advantage of it. Therefore, Huizhong invests in Tmall, instead of us investing in Huizhong, in order to let both parties have as much as possible A fair environment for cooperation.

Huizhong's overseas resources, including hundreds of millions of WeChat overseas users, a large number of game players, 91 assistants and other popular apps in many countries, are not and envied by most Chinese Internet companies.

Including our Alibaba, we also have shortcomings in this respect, so if conditions permit, we will definitely strengthen cooperation with Huizhong overseas in the future, but at this stage, our main work is still the first point I just mentioned."

President Ma’s question of the foreign media reporter was very detailed and serious. After the foreign media reporter took his seat, President Ma rekindled a domestic media reporter.

A gentle-looking young man wearing a plaid shirt and glasses. According to his self-introduction, he is from Tencent Technology. Based on the relationship between Huizhong and Tencent, it is difficult to imagine whether his subsequent reports will be biased. , His question is:

"Mr. Ma, do you think that after the WeChat secondary portal is connected to Tmall and other e-commerce platforms, will it weaken the independence of Tmall and other e-commerce apps? After a long time, users only know the shopping portal on WeChat. Know the Tmall APP, don't download the Tmall APP, or rarely open the independent Tmall APP."

Mr. Ma glanced at Fang Zhe in the audience. He had discussed this issue many times with Ali executives and Huizhong. In fact, this is also the fact that Ali internally opposes Tmall’s access to the WeChat secondary portal. An important reason, but in the end, Mr. Ma chose to connect.

"The situation you mentioned is not unreasonable. Many people within us also feel that access to the WeChat secondary portal will weaken the independent existence of Tmall APP.

If in the future WeChat users will cover smart phone users across the country and even the world, it is possible that all WeChat users do not need to open the Tmall APP and can buy things directly on WeChat.

But from the user's point of view, how convenient is it? Although the entrance is on WeChat, e-commerce transactions and services are still on Tmall. Moreover, the Tmall mall page entered from the WeChat entrance is similar to the independent Tmall APP in terms of experience, etc. There are still many differences. When we access WeChat, we take care of e-commerce novice users and new users.

According to our previous investigations and research tests, even if there is an entrance to the Tmall store on the WeChat portal, most of the old Tmall users will still be used to using the independent Tmall APP, because in his subconscious, WeChat is chatting and socializing. , Tmall is shopping.

Therefore, we are not worried that the presence of Tmall APP will be weakened after Tmall accesses the WeChat secondary portal."

The male journalist with eyes supported his glasses, touched his nose and sat down. It seemed that Mr. Ma's answer had completely convinced him.

For the last question, the reporter who asked the question came from Caijing. It was originally just an investment signing ceremony for two Internet companies. This financial industry media came. His purpose was to formally pay for the business that both companies have. .

"Hello, Mr. Ma, I would like to ask, after Tmall is connected to WeChat, will Tmall's transaction payments be made using WeChat Pay or Alipay, or both?

As far as I know, the Alipay company behind WeChat Pay has surpassed Alipay, which is independent from your company, in terms of number of users and frequency of use. What is your opinion on this situation?"A reporter from Caijing.com asked.

The smile on Mr. Ma's face gradually disappeared. Since the rise of Huizhong, the worst company in the domestic Internet industry is Tencent, then their life on Alibaba is actually not easy.

On the one hand, Huizhong has successively invested and supported JD.com, Miya and other vertical e-commerce companies that have risen to grab cakes and users in the e-commerce market with Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall.

On the other hand, whether it is Alipay or cloud computing, Huizhong's strong development in these two businesses has slowed down or even failed to develop at all.

Hate it?Hate it, angry?If you are not angry, Alibaba will not hold back your big move to make a contact with WeChat last year.

However, the exchanges are lost. In addition to making waves in the core e-commerce business, Alibaba can only be eroded step by step in other business areas that have serious competition with Huizhong.

So now, when the reporter from Caijing.com mentioned Alipay, the smile on Mr. Ma's face naturally disappeared.

Fortunately, Ma is always a pragmatic person. Since he can't fight, then cooperate. It's not a big deal.

"Whether it is connected to the Tmall Mall on WeChat or the independent Tmall APP, both WeChat Pay and Alipay can be used at the same time.

At present, WeChat Pay has an advantage in online games, red envelope transfer, online payment, and offline consumption. We have an advantage in online shopping with Alipay.

Thanks to WeChat’s Wufu activity during the Spring Festival this year, the number of users who opened WeChat Pay has surpassed Alipay users, but in terms of total transaction volume, Alipay is much larger than WeChat Pay.

In the future, these two products may compete in differentiation, and may also cooperate in financial services and online banking.

Anyway, since you have encountered such a powerful opponent, you just need to work hard, it's useless to say more!

Cooperation is cooperation, competition is competition, and there is no impact between the two."