E-commerce Evening News on December 18

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News Brief on December 18] Alibaba Zhang Yong: All business factors will be digital in the future and ultimately intelligent; Ren Zhengfei: I was ready to retire, but the suppression of the United States gave me motivation; Vipshop will be increased by Tencent; Xiaomi Wuhan headquarters opened, Lei Jun: Feeling the speed of Optical Valley, our personnel exceeded 2,000; Hello responded to illegally deploying moped cars in Shanghai: A special working group has been established and is being recycled...

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　　1. Asia's largest integrated intelligent logistics center, JD Logistics, Asia No. 1, is put into use

　　On December 18, JD Logistics has fully put into use Asia's largest integrated intelligent logistics center - Dongguan Asia No. 1. The center has a construction area of ​​nearly 500,000 square meters, a single-day order processing capacity of 1.6 million orders, and an automatic three-dimensional warehouse can store more than 20 million pieces of medium-sized goods at the same time.

　　The commissioning of Dongguan Asia No. 1 will promote more than 100 million people in South China to enjoy the convenient services brought by the "24-hour delivery", and accelerate the commodity circulation and supply chain upgrade of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with the clustering effect of intelligent logistics centers.

　　At the same time, JD Logistics Asia No. 1 Intelligent Logistics Park has been put into use within 5 years, which means that JD Logistics has gone through 40 years of intelligent logistics development history of enterprises in developed countries in 5 years, forming the largest intelligent warehouse group in the field of e-commerce logistics in Asia. The "Some-One Effect" has become an important manifestation of China's intelligent iteration of logistics infrastructure leading the world. In the next two years, JD Logistics will continue to invest nearly 20 Asian No. 1 to achieve full coverage of core cities across the country. (Sina Finance)

　　2. Alibaba Zhang Yong: All business elements will be digital in the future and ultimately intelligent in the future

　　According to news on December 18, Alibaba Group CEO Zhang Yong said that every industry is moving towards digitalization. More than three years ago, Jack Ma proposed the "Five New" and the hottest thing was new retail. Why are there less talks about it now? We have a high degree of consensus today: we walk in a common business world, we serve common users, sometimes online, and sometimes in physical stores. Now we are no longer discussing whether it has been commercialized online or offline, whether traditional or not. We believe that all business elements will be digitalized in the future and ultimately intelligent.

　　Zhang Yong said that in the new consumption era, the operation model is to move from brand and product-centered to consumer-centered. In this way, the understanding of customers and the way of providing services to customers will become more diverse. (Chuangyebang)

　　3. Ren Zhengfei: I was ready to retire, but the suppression of the United States has motivated me

　　On December 18, Ren Zhengfei was interviewed by Latin American and Spanish media on the 11th of this month, and Huawei Xinsheng Community published minutes today. Regarding the issue of listing, Ren Zhengfei said that judging whether Huawei is a good company depends on the actions and results of the work, rather than whether it is listed or not. Regarding his current motivation for work, Ren Zhengfei said that it may be because the United States always suppressed us, which made me motivated. I was about to retire, and then he hit me and asked me to stay for the Public Relations Department to work. In addition, Ren Zhengfei said that whether the US entity list is postponed will have no impact on Huawei; Huawei's 5G in Spain will build the best 5G network in Europe. (Sohu.com)

　　4. Vipshop will receive Tencent's additional holdings

　　According to news on December 18, a relevant person in charge of Vipshop confirmed that Tencent will increase its holdings in Vipshop. According to reports, Tencent and JD.com acquired shares in Vipshop two years ago, and the lock-up period was about to end, and Tencent continued to expand its holdings. (Beijing Business Daily)

　　5. Alibaba releases three key words for corporate growth: new customers, new products, and new organizations

　　On December 18, at the ONE Business Conference held by Alibaba, three key words for corporate growth were released: new customers, new products, and new organizations. These three together form a new methodology for future corporate growth. Since the release of Alibaba's commercial operating system in January 2019, a large number of companies have used Alibaba's integration capabilities to move towards all-round digitalization, achieving exceeding expectations in performance growth, and launched a digital and intelligent revolution in all walks of life from the consumer retail field.

　　As of September 2019, merchants on the Tmall platform have released more than 90 million new products; in the past six months, the brand has gained a total of more than 900 million new fans in the Tmall official flagship store alone. The digital business infrastructure built by Alibaba has provided inclusive financial support to tens of millions of enterprises, and tens of thousands of brands enjoy digital supply chain services. Digital transformation technology represented by the middle platform is being exported to the outside world through Alibaba Cloud. At present, more than 100 customized solutions for enterprises to fully access the cloud have been born, reducing the comprehensive IT costs of enterprises by half and improving innovation by three times.

　　Jing Jie, vice president of Alibaba Group and secretary-general of the enterprise service system, said: Looking to the future, enterprises should establish a new model that is consumer-centric and digital operation capabilities, so that new customers, new products and new organizations can serve today's growth and win tomorrow's market.

　　It is reported that in response to the three key points of new customers, new products and new organizations, Alibaba's commercial operating system has formed capabilities such as global consumer insights, global membership, multi-end cross-scene operations, data middle platform and organizational digitalization, helping brand companies to grow more and more continuously. (Yiou.com)

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　　6. Xiaomi Wuhan headquarters opened, Lei Jun: Feeling the speed of Optical Valley, our personnel exceeded 2,000

　　On December 18, Xiaomi’s Wuhan headquarters opened today, and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun led Xiaomi and Kingsoft executives to appear in Optics Valley.

　　Lei Jun said that at this moment, standing in such a beautiful office building to celebrate the opening of Xiaomi Wuhan headquarters, he was extremely excited, and thousands of words came to his heart, all of which turned into sincere thanks from the bottom of his heart.

　　"First of all, I would like to thank the leaders at all levels of Hubei Province, Wuhan City and Donghu Hi-Tech Zone for their care and support. It is precisely because this is the starting point of my life and career that I have left so many memories of my youth, so I have always wanted to do something for Wuhan and Donghu Hi-Tech Zone."

　　Lei Jun said that everything that has happened around Xiaomi’s layout in Wuhan in the past two years really reflects the “speed of Optical Valley”, which completely exceeded his original expectations.

　　Lei Jun revealed that in 2018, Xiaomi’s Wuhan headquarters alone achieved an output value of 10.5 billion in Wuhan. "Wuhan and Donghu Hi-Tech Zone have given us very good policies and support for talent introduction. So far, our number of employees in Wuhan has exceeded 2,000, and 80% are local recruitment." (Lei Di Touching Network)

　　7. Report: The world's top 500 unicorns, ranking first in the number and valuation of Chinese companies

　　On December 18, the "2019 Global Top 500 Unicorn Enterprises Development Report" jointly released by Renmin University of China and Beijing Invisible Unicorn Information Technology Institute shows that among the top 500 unicorn enterprises in the world, Chinese companies ranked first in the number and valuation of valuations. In addition, in the overall pattern of the top 500 unicorn companies in the world, China and the United States account for as much as 82%. There are 29 super unicorn companies with a valuation of more than US$10 billion, with a total valuation of US$949.765 billion, accounting for 49.15% of the total valuation of the top 500 unicorn companies in the world. (Yicai)

　　8. Douyin releases the "DOU Knowledge Creator Academy" plan to serve creators of knowledge content

　　On December 18, Douyin released the "DOU Zhicai Creator Academy" plan, providing a series of official guidance courses and comprehensive content operation guidance including platform rules, production, operation, increase fans, and monetization methods.

　　The plan is mainly to continuously build a Douyin knowledge content ecosystem and serve Douyin knowledge content creators.

　　"2019 Douyin Knowledge Creator Picture Book" shows that as of December 2, the number of knowledge content creators with more than 10,000 fans on Douyin has exceeded 74,000. These high-quality knowledge content creators have created a total of 19.85 million high-quality knowledge short videos, with a cumulative playback volume of more than 1.9 trillion; the average daily viewing volume of knowledge content they created on Douyin has exceeded 5.21 billion times, and the average daily likes has exceeded 160 million times. Each knowledge short video has reached nearly 100,000 people. (Sohu.com)

　　9. Hello responded to illegally deploying mopeds in Shanghai: a special working group has been established and is being recycled.

　　On December 18, in response to the warnings of the regulatory authorities for the illegal delivery of moped vehicles in Minhang, Shanghai, Hello responded that it had received relevant rectification work requirements and established a special working group to cooperate with the Minhang District Transportation Committee for recycling. From last night to today, it has been recycled in many places such as Minhang Sports Park, Shuiqing Road, and Biquan Road. In the future, it will provide feedback and report on the progress of recycling and transportation with the Minhang District Transportation Committee. (Penguin)

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　　10. Strikes broke out in many places in Germany affect logistics

　　German trade union Verdi calls on workers at important Amazon logistics centers to continue strikes before Christmas. The union said that the employees in charge of logistics workloads during Christmas, work overtime for a long time and process too many express delivery, and have reason to get more bonuses and overtime pay. The result of negotiations through the union is; the bonuses during Christmas should be 4 times the current one, and currently only 400 euros ($441). As the second largest market after the United States, Germany has had many strikes since 2013 to force Amazon to accept relevant collective bargaining agreements. (Hugo.com)

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