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Zhang Yong (Daniel), male, Han nationality, born in Shanghai on January 11, 1972, chief executive officer of Alibaba Group, and president of Aliyun, and also serves as a director of a number of publicly traded companies, including Haier Electric Appliances, Yintai Commercial Group and so on, and in May 2015, Zhang Yong concurrently assumed the position of Yintai Commercial Group board boss, which has gained many people's recognition.

Zhang Yong took over as CEO of Alibaba Group in May 2015, and concurrently served as chairman of Alibaba Sports Group in September of the same year, and formally assumed the position of chairman of the personnel bureau of Alibaba Group on September 10, 2019, and concurrently served as CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group in March 2023.Over the past eight years, Zhang Yong has served in a number of senior management roles in the Alibaba Group, and has a wealth of experience.

Introduction of Zhang Yong's tenure

In May 2015, Alibaba Group announced that Zhang Yong took over as CEO of Alibaba Group, and on May 13, Zhang Yong delivered a succession speech at a meeting of Alibaba's organization department, making it clear that globalization, rural areas, and cloud computing and big data are Alibaba's three major strategic directions, and at the same time, Alibaba plans to build e-commerce and finance in the In addition to e-commerce, finance, to build logistics, import and export and marketing and other more new economic services platform.

And upgrading Alibaba to a future-oriented business infrastructure to promote more enterprises to carry out digital transformation. Then Zhang Yong launched a series of visits to Ali's national customers, including Taobao village, Tmall merchants, etc., to understand their problems, and promote their use of the Internet transformation and upgrading, but also to bring Alibaba to a new level.