E-commerce Morning News on January 8

"#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Morning News on January 8]" Jack Ma: I hope the foundation will become the Whampoa Military Academy of China's charity charity in the cultivation of public welfare talents; Vipshop's New Year Sale officially opened nearly 4,000 brands to participate; Taobao's short video business leader Liu Xinzheng: Encourage merchants' content marketing on the site; Alibaba officially launched the "anti-counterfeiting without borders" platform to guide safe consumption; Zhou Hongyi talked about Li Jiaqi and Weiya: Sometimes it is difficult to copy success...

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1. Jack Ma: I hope the foundation will become the Whampoa Military Academy of China's charity charity in the field of public welfare talent training.

According to January 7, Jack Ma's Charity Foundation held a board meeting this afternoon. Jack Ma set a "KPI" at the meeting: I hope the foundation can become the Whampoa Military Academy in the public welfare industry and provide talents to the public welfare industry in the future. According to statistics, Jack Ma’s rural education plan directly sponsors 500 rural teachers, 60 rural principals, and 200 rural teacher training students. Among them, 79% of the candidates in Jack Ma's rural education talent program come from national-level poverty-stricken counties, covering a total of 312 national-level poverty-stricken counties. (E-commerce News)

2. Vipshop New Year Sale officially opened nearly 4,000 brands to participate

According to January 7, Vipshop's New Year Sale Festival will officially start at 8 o'clock tonight, and the event will last until 10 a.m. on January 10. Special shows such as "Ace Hot Products" and "New Year's Refreshing Clothes" will also be launched simultaneously. According to reports, this New Year's Special Sale Festival will focus on clothing and wear. In addition, all categories such as beauty, physical use, and boutique will also participate in discounts, covering nearly 4,000 brands such as Belle, Oushili, Peacebird, Zhou Shengsheng, and Baicaowei. On the 8th of last month, Vipshop's "12.8 Special Sales Conference" opened in one hour and exceeded 3 million orders. (Securities Times)

3. Liu Xinzheng, head of Taobao’s short video business: Encourage merchants to content marketing on the site

On January 7, at the 3rd China New Retail Summit Forum held today, Liu Xinzheng, head of Taobao’s live short video business, said in a speech that Taobao’s short video content marketing is approaching the main battlefield. Taobao encourages merchants to actively conduct content marketing on the site, distribute short videos, and set goals for vertical merchants in various industries: to reach one million short videos in stores every month. Liu Xinzheng said that if merchants achieve good private domain traffic operations through short videos, they will receive more distribution of public domain traffic from the platform. (E-commerce News)

4. Alibaba officially launches the "anti-counterfeiting" platform to guide safe consumption

According to January 7th, today, Alibaba Group officially launched the "anti-counterfeiting without boundaries" platform. The first batch of participating in the "anti-counterfeiting and boundless" project include more than 50 well-known brands at home and abroad, including Moutai, Xiaomi, Jaguar Land Rover, Ordos, covering four major industries such as wine and beverages, consumer electronics, automobiles, and clothing. According to Li Xihan, Alibaba’s Intellectual Property Protection Director, the platform uses digital technology and social governance model to explore infringement clues such as offline counterfeit stores, counterfeit goods and counterfeit manufacturing and sales dens, and provides consumers with a channel to report offline suspected infringement clues, and crack down on the source of offline counterfeit goods. (E-commerce News)

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5. Many Suning stores in Chengdu closed or a number of stores closed

According to Sichuan Online, many Suning stores have been closed in Chengdu, including Suning Store Jinjiang 468 Mansion Store, Jade City Store, Lanrun V Kedongdu Store, etc. According to reports, some employees revealed that they would close a number of stores. The E-commerce Daily learned that in mid-December, the Beijing News reported that many Suning stores in Beijing were also gradually closing and adjusting. (E-commerce News)

6. Zhou Hongyi talks about Li Jiaqi and Weiya: Sometimes success is difficult to copy

On January 7, Zhou Hongyi, founder, chairman and CEO of 360 Company, held a "Lao Zhou Dinner" tonight, and talked about his views on Li Jiaqi and Weiya. Zhou Hongyi said, "China is so big and there are so many internet celebrity anchors, and only these two are coming out in total. If you want to analyze why you become them, it is quite difficult to analyze. If you say that being able to analyze it means that you can copy it, but sometimes it is difficult to copy it successfully." (Tencent Technology)

7. 1688 issues an announcement on the revision of the provision of false vouchers

On January 7, 1688 issued an announcement announcing that Alibaba China Station will revise the current "Alibaba China Website Rules": provide false certificates, and the newly revised rules will take effect on January 14, 2020. According to the announcement, members who provide false vouchers will be closed if the circumstances are particularly serious. At the same time, Alibaba will take temporary market control measures against its members depending on the circumstances. In addition, if a member who provides false certificates causes platform losses, Alibaba has the right to ask for compensation. (Titanium Media)

8. Zhou Hongyi: Whether knowledge payment can survive well has nothing to do with 5G

At the "Old Zhou Dinner" held by Zhou Hongyi, founder, chairman and CEO of 360 Company, a guest asked how 5G will change the knowledge payment. In this regard, Zhou Hongyi admitted that 5G will bring about an increase in communication speed, which may have a greater impact on the Internet. He doesn’t know the impact on knowledge payment. With the help of 5G, more people may watch live broadcasts and the video playback is smoother. However, Zhou Hongyi believes that "whether knowledge payment can survive well or not has 5G, it is still a problem of your own content and user needs." (Sina Technology)

9. Jack Ma’s Public Welfare Foundation has been established for five years, with a total donation income of 1.09 billion yuan.

Jack Ma Charity Foundation has been established for five years. As of the end of November 2019, the foundation's total donation income has reached RMB 1.09 billion and the cumulative expenditure is 477 million. Among them, the expenditure on environmental protection and medical donations reached 356 million yuan, and the cumulative donations in the education field followed closely by 147 million yuan. (First Financial Daily)

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10. Amazon Cloud Computing Department will cooperate with Verizon to launch 5G edge cloud computing

According to foreign media reports, Amazon, which has a large market share in the global cloud computing field, announced that it will cooperate with telecom operators to launch 5G edge cloud computing. Judging from the news released by Amazon on its official website, the 5G edge cloud computing service will eventually be launched by Verizon. Using Amazon's new service AWS Wavelength, Verizon will become the world's first technology company to provide 5G edge cloud computing, providing developers with the ability to deploy related applications. (Hugo.com)

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