Interpretation Of Hangzhou'S "Ali Flavor"

In December 29, 2014, at the second joint meeting of strategic cooperation between Hangzhou and Alibaba group, Ma said, "over the years, Alibaba is a very fortunate company. We have received strong support from the Hangzhou government and the people in Hangzhou. We are also honored to be a community of interests with a city and our hometown." Ma Yun's words may come from the bottom of his heart.

There is a public video on the Internet showing that in 1996, Ma Yun took his Chinese yellow pages to run the State Sports General Administration in Beijing, and was advertised in the name of the information superhighway.

In 1999, when Alibaba started to get financing, Ma Yun once moved the company headquarters to the United States, and the domestic headquarters moved to Shanghai. However, Shanghai was dominated by large state-owned enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises.

Ma Yun himself also mentioned the reason for leaving Shanghai in a speech. "Before, I once placed the headquarters of Alibaba in Shanghai, rented a large office in Huaihailu Road and dressed up beautifully. As a result, I felt very tired and unable to recruit people for a year."

After this short setback, Ma decided to evacuate from Shanghai and go back to Hangzhou to start an undertaking. At this time, he used the Alibaba website of 500 thousand yuan to start a simple position to create the largest online professional market for Zhejiang and even the world's small and medium-sized enterprises.

In some public occasions, Ma also mentioned that when we conceived the Alibaba in 1999, we considered the Chinese economy. Chinese enterprises could go abroad to do business, help Chinese enterprises export through the Internet, and help foreign enterprises to enter China. Second, we believe that the driving force for the rapid development of China's economy is Small and medium-sized enterprises And the private economy, we are always helping those enterprises that can help. It is their trend for small and medium enterprises to use e-commerce. "

"Being so close to SMEs in Zhejiang is an advantage for Alibaba." Wei Zhe, the chief executive of B2B subsidiary of Alibaba group, understands Hangzhou's geopolitical advantage. "If you want to visit a small and medium-sized enterprise in Shanghai, or get Zhejiang, Hangzhou will be very close to customers" in Zhejiang.

Zhejiang has the largest number of small and medium-sized processing enterprises and manufacturing enterprises in China, and the related industrial chain division system. According to the 2011 Zhejiang province private enterprise climate index report, in 2011, the total market volume of Zhejiang province exceeded 3 million 80 thousand, of which the total number of private enterprises reached 684 thousand, accounting for 82% of the total enterprises in the province, and in many places, the proportion of small and medium-sized enterprises has exceeded 98%.

"The whole Yangtze River Delta region is China's most powerful manufacturing area, and also a region where consumer goods are concentrated," said Zhang Handong, director of Zhejiang Business Research Institute. "In Hangzhou, Ali can attract a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises to join its platform, just like the relationship between ships and water."

At the same time, Zhejiang's developed private financing system and credit system enable many entrepreneurs to accept the innovative business mode of Internet transactions. In addition, the concentration of human resources in Hangzhou is also one of the factors for Alibaba to stay in Hangzhou.

"If we talk about attracting talents, Hangzhou is a little more difficult than Shanghai and other places. But Hangzhou is characterized by the possibility of being dug away after the arrival of talent. " Wei Zhe said.

At Zhejiang University, computer is a trump card, and if people in this profession stay in Hangzhou, if you ask, nine times out of ten is in Alibaba. "Ali's existence has created an Internet empire for Hangzhou." Many Alibaba's alumni of Zhejiang University told the twenty-first Century economic report.

For this reason, Alibaba has been sticking to Hangzhou in its subsequent development.

In 2000, Alibaba moved to Huaxing business building from Lakeside Garden in Hangzhou. In 2007, Alibaba (China) headquarters was founded in Hangzhou high tech Zone (Binjiang). Over the past decade, Alibaba's workforce has gradually extended to Yuhang Taobao City, Alibaba Binjiang Park, and Huaxing business building.

September 19, 2014 Alibaba Before the listing of the NYSE, Jack Ma In the roadshow video, we announce to the world again in fluent English that Ali is committed to helping small and medium businesses and developing new markets.

Perhaps because of this, Ma continues to emphasize on many occasions: "Hangzhou is always the headquarters of Alibaba (China)."

For Hangzhou, its entrepreneurial enterprises are also full of deep "Ali flavor". For example, among the three founders of the famous mogujie.com, two are Alibaba employees.

In addition, dig up, 51 credit cards, copper street, Yingying, Renren installment, shield technology and other financial sectors of the entrepreneurial team are in Hangzhou. "51 credit card housekeeper" founder Sun Haitao designed products including E City, room road network, renting treasure and so on.