September 9 news, (September 8), in the 18th anniversary of the annual meeting of Alibaba Group, Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong pointed out that today Alibaba's development has gone beyond an e-commerce platform, Alibaba as a distinctive, rising economy, commercial development and social responsibility coexist. He said that more than 500 million consumers go to the Ali platform every month to experience the latest lifestyle; more than 55 million packages arrive at thousands of homes through Cainiao Logistics every day; millions of enterprises enjoy the Ali Cloud service; and with the opening of the first eWTP node in Malaysia this year, Alibaba is on its way to buying and selling globally. In addition, 4.7 billion people participated in public welfare activities during the past fiscal year. ?

When talking about the future, Zhang Yong pointed out that the established strategy has been clear, that is, "globalization, rural strategy, big data and cloud computing" three future-oriented strategy. He said that the future of Ali will not only serve China's 500 million consumers, but to the world, to serve the world's 2 billion consumers; Ali hopes to make China's more than half of the population of rural users, enjoy the convenience of the Internet, the use of the power of the Internet to get rich and escape poverty.

Alibaba Group Chairman Jack Ma also emphasized in his speech that Alibaba is no longer an ordinary company, but an economy, a new type of economy. Previous economies were defined by geographic location, but today the new economy is born on the Internet. He expressed his hope that through this new economy, and the infrastructure it builds, young people and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) all over the world will be able to buy globally, sell globally, pay globally, ship globally and travel globally; and that more developing countries, SMEs, and young people will be able to share the joys of free trade and globalization, try out the joys of entrepreneurship and innovation, and enjoy the benefits of technological advances. Jack Ma's vision is to solve 100 million employment opportunities for the world, to be able to serve 2 billion consumers, and to be able to create a profitable platform for 10 million SMEs.?

He made a point of saying that there is a difference between an economy and an ordinary company, where the company is focused on considering its own interests, while an economy is about taking responsibility for society. It is not the difference in scale, not the difference in profit, but the difference in commitment and responsibility. At present, Alibaba has more than 50,000 employees, 25,000 engineers and scientists. For Alibaba's employees, Ma is most worried about employees forgetting their idealism, emphasizing that, Alibaba can not lose its idealism. In terms of specific businesses, he talked about investing in rural development and participating in global poverty eradication. At the same time, will go further to increase investment in technology and technology innovation.