E-commerce Evening News Briefing on February 13

　　#Laogao E-commerce News# [E-commerce Evening News on February 13] Alipay: More than 300 million people have used the direct service for the epidemic; Alibaba Health and nearly 50 pharmaceutical companies have launched the "Chronic Disease Welfare Plan"; Youzan released 16 merchant support measures during the epidemic; Lei Jun: Xiaomi mobile phones have officially impacted the high-end market; Zhou Hongyi: 36 billion donations have not applied for government loans...

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　　1. Alipay: More than 300 million people have used the direct service for epidemic situation

　　According to news on February 13, Alipay data shows that since Alipay launched the epidemic express train on the homepage on January 27, more than 300 million people have used 10 major services including epidemic information inquiry, online consultation, home shopping for groceries and medicines, health declaration, itinerary revision, donation of love, and inquiries with the same itinerary in the express train; the epidemic express train has helped reduce the number of more than 50 million people going out. It is reported that Alipay recently jointly launched a free smart community epidemic prevention and control mini program in conjunction with Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk. (E-commerce News)

　　2. JD Live: JD Merchant will be broadcast for free before March 15

　　According to February 13, in order to minimize the impact of the epidemic as much as possible, JD Live recently announced the formal launch of the "4+2" policy for merchants and institutions "comprehensive deduction reduction, traffic escort, special subsidies, 0 service fees" and "cash subsidies and public domain traffic support" for anchors. Among them, from now until March 15, JD merchants can enjoy 0 service fee broadcasting service when they start broadcasting. It is reported that at the end of last year, Zhang Guowei, the head of JD Live, said that JD will target billion-level resource support to the live broadcast room in 2020. (Beijing News)

　　3. Alibaba Health and nearly 50 pharmaceutical companies launched the "Chronic Disease Welfare Plan"

　　On February 13, nearly 50 pharmaceutical manufacturers, in conjunction with Alibaba Health, further launched the "Chronic Disease Welfare Plan" on the Tmall "Buy Medicine but Don't Go Out" platform to ensure the online supply of chronic disease drugs during the epidemic, and at the same time provide online chronic disease management services for chronic disease patients who are not convenient to go out for dispensing drugs. The drugs involved in this cooperation include, in addition to chronic diseases such as liver disease, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, they also cover thousands of drugs for more than a dozen common diseases such as respiratory, nerve, anti-infection, orthopedics, gout, nephropathy, gynecology, digestion, rheumatism and immunity, and androidism. (Sina Technology)

　　4. Youzan released 16 merchant support measures during the epidemic

　　According to February 13, today, Youzan posted that since January 31, Youzan has successively released 16 "anti-epidemic measures" for multiple business lines to help businesses overcome the difficulties of the epidemic. It is understood that specific measures include: Youzan Retail and Youzan Mei Industry will reduce and exempt all merchants from a one-month software service fee for February 2020; Youzan Micro Mall has opened a two-week free test experience to new merchants from February to March; Youzan assists all vegetable market supermarkets to build "online grocery shopping" malls; Youzan Finance will jointly provide store owner loans with the first interest-free discount from February 15 to March 31, etc. (E-commerce News)

　　5. Alipay: More than 1,200 developers have signed up for the "Fanxing Plan"

　　According to Alipay, on February 13, Alipay joined hands with Alibaba Cloud to launch the Star Plan on February 6, calling on developers from all walks of life to join in the development of more services to solve the large number of convenient service needs caused by the epidemic. Less than a week after the plan was launched, more than 1,200 individual developers and service providers have signed up. At present, among the first batch of registered users, 181 epidemic mini programs have entered the development process or have been launched, including epidemic consultation robot bobo, community epidemic inquiry, etc., which will provide users and institutional demand parties with intelligent epidemic information Q&A, epidemic statistics, psychological counseling, emergency material dispatch and other services. (E-commerce News)

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　　6. Lei Jun: Xiaomi mobile phones officially hit the high-end market

　　According to February 13, at 2 pm today, the Xiaomi 10 series press conference was held in pure online live broadcast for the first time. Lei Jun said at the press conference that Xiaomi mobile phones have officially impacted the high-end market. Xiaomi's R&D investment in 2019 is about 7 billion yuan. This year, Xiaomi is expected to invest more than 10 billion yuan in R&D. Lei Jun said that we hope to break the price limit, impact the high-end mobile phone market regardless of cost, and create a dreamlike work in the hearts of Mi Fans. (E-commerce News)

　　7. Zhou Hongyi: Donate 36 billion yuan without applying for government loans

　　On February 13, in response to the media reports that "360 applied for a loan of 1 billion yuan from the government to purchase medical-related supplies", Zhou Hongyi, Chairman and CEO of 360, said in his circle of friends that our nearly 100 million yuan donations are all donated by the company, partners and employees. There is no application for government loans, and there is no plan to apply for government loans in the future. We hereby refute the rumors. Previously, Zhou Hongyi announced the launch of the "Hundred Cities Fight the Epidemic, Ten Thousand People Support" activity, calling on IT experts from 360 business units and branches across the country to mobilize on the spot, join the volunteer team of 360's corresponding cities, and fully support local government and enterprise units to fight the epidemic together. (E-commerce News)

　　8. Rookie: The green channel has received rescue supplies from 29 countries and regions.

　　According to news on February 13, Alibaba Cainiao said that as of February 11, more than 16,000 donation consultation calls were pouring in at home and abroad, and Alibaba Cainiao Green Channel has shipped rescue materials from 29 countries and regions around the world or is being shipped to China. It is reported that on January 25, Cainiao, together with major Chinese express logistics companies such as Shentong, Yunda, Yuantong, and Debang, as well as domestic and foreign logistics companies such as AirCity International Logistics Group, Sink Logistics, Danmas Logistics, 4PX Delivery Sifang, officially opened domestic and global green channels to transport free rescue materials donated to Wuhan from all over the country and abroad. (36Kr)

　　9. Google: Apps that obtain phone and text messages permissions fell by 98% in 2019

　　On February 13, Google revealed that the number of Play Store apps that have access to call and SMS permissions fell by 98% in 2019. In October 2018, Google introduced a new policy that prohibits apps from making unnecessary file access, and now it has the expected effect. Google says the rest of the apps do require call and SMS permissions to perform their core tasks. (IT Home)

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　　10. Shopee launches a seller recovery plan to assist cross-border sellers to resume operations

　　February 13th news, Shopee, an e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, told the E-commerce Daily that in order to alleviate the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic on the cross-border industry, Shopee has issued a seller recovery plan to fully assist cross-border practitioners in resuming operations. The first phase of the recovery plan covers the "five exemptions policies" of free commissions, free shipping, free handling fees, free training, etc., which brings major benefits to new merchants. Among them, all sellers who successfully entered Shopee's first Malay or Taiwan site before March 31 can enjoy a new store exemption of up to 120 days, and it is also applicable to the incubation period stores that meet the requirements. (E-commerce News)

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