E-commerce Evening News on February 17

　　#Laogao E-commerce Newsletter# [E-commerce Evening News on February 17] Alipay released five major anti-epidemic measures to help merchants resume production; Taobao released the first "Taobao Economic Warm News": All walks of life are resuming work; WeChat mini-program live broadcast capacity has launched public beta to help live sales; Alipay: The first batch of nearly 10,000 daily necessities have been delivered to Hubei medical rescue team; Ministry of Commerce: Encourage e-commerce companies to help farmers sell goods through live broadcasts and other means...

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　　1. Alipay releases five major anti-epidemic measures to help merchants resume production

　　According to February 17, in order to help ecological service providers fight the epidemic together and help merchants resume production faster, Alipay today launched five production and operation measures during and after the epidemic. These include: adopting a policy of speeding up commissions by 40% to ensure the turnover of funds for ecological service providers; opening a 0-rate channel for public welfare donation payments; completing the page advertising traffic assistance plan soon; supporting the development of epidemic-related mini programs; Alipay University Payment Business School offers live courses, etc. (E-commerce News)

　　2. Taobao released its first Taobao Economic Warm News: All walks of life are resuming work

　　According to February 17th, Taobao released its first Taobao Economic Warm News today, showing that all walks of life are resuming work. In terms of logistics, more than half of the couriers in the industry have returned to work, and Guangdong's commodity delivery rate and logistics acquisition rate are the highest in the country; since February, more than 30,000 people have opened new stores on Taobao every day, and the top three new stores are: Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu; this week, merchants that resume work through Taobao live broadcast will include: 4,000 industrial belt factories, 500 real estate projects, 400 car 4S stores and 5,000 real estate consultants. (Beijing News)

　　3. WeChat mini program live broadcast capability enables public beta to help live broadcast sales

　　According to IT Home on February 17, the live broadcast capability of WeChat mini-programs has officially launched public beta for merchants who receive invitations. The invitation site message shows that the live broadcast component of the mini program is a merchant operating tool provided by WeChat. Merchants can use the live broadcast component to realize a closed loop of live broadcast interaction and product sales in the mini program, without jumping to other mini programs or apps. At the 2020 WeChat Open Class PRO held in January this year, the WeChat mini program team stated that it will provide official live broadcast components in 2020 to help mini program live broadcast sales. (Sina Technology)

　　4. Alipay: The first batch of nearly 10,000 daily necessities have been delivered to the Hubei medical rescue team

　　According to February 17, today, Alipay announced the progress of the work of the security team on Weibo: At present, Alipay has linked Tmall Supermarket, Ele.me, and Cainiao to provide front-line medical staff with nearly 10,000 pieces of daily necessities to the medical rescue team going to Hubei to solve the shortage of daily necessities for the medical team to assist Hubei. (E-commerce News)

　　5. JD.com: As of February 13, it has invested nearly 1 billion yuan in combating the epidemic

　　On February 17, JD.com said today through its WeChat official account that today is the first day of opening the workplace of JD.com headquarters, but for many JD.com employees, this is the 28th day of "fighting the epidemic, protecting people's livelihood, supporting the economy, and stabilizing employment." According to JD.com, as of February 13, JD.com has invested nearly 1 billion yuan in combating the epidemic. (E-commerce News)

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　　6. Meituan Dianping: More than 50,000 merchants have launched "mobile ordering"

　　On February 17, Meituan Dianping recently jointly with the China Hotel Association to release the "Guidelines for catering companies to implement contactless ordering during the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control period", advocating that merchants provide contactless dining services with the support of digital means, that is, by providing all-round contactless products and operation solutions such as mobile phone ordering, payment, pre-ordering, and take-out, the restaurant's full-link solution for contactless meals is achieved, and the contactless meals are reduced. According to reports, more than 50,000 cooperative merchants on the Meituan platform have launched "mobile ordering" and more than 1,600 merchants have applied to upgrade to the store's "contactless ordering" solution. (E-commerce News)

　　7. Alibaba: 20,000 small stores have opened Ele.me takeaway service

　　According to Alibaba, in order to support street shops to resume work and business as soon as possible, Alibaba's local life service company announced on January 26 that it had launched the "Fast Takeout Online Business". As of February 16, 20,000 small stores across the country have opened Ele.me takeout services after review. At present, the total daily sales of stores that have resumed operations have increased by nearly 250% month-on-month. According to Alibaba, as of the end of February, 50,000 street shops will be launched on Ele.me. Recently, Ant Commercial Bank also announced that it would reduce the loan interest rate by 20% to 8.5 million online and offline stores across the country. (E-commerce News)

　　8. The General Administration of Customs has issued 10 measures to fully support the resumption of work and production of foreign trade enterprises

　　According to February 17, yesterday, the General Administration of Customs issued 10 measures to support foreign trade enterprises to resume work and production and promote stable growth of foreign trade. Specific measures include increasing support, alleviating business difficulties of enterprises, accelerating the inspection and release of imported production equipment and raw materials, promoting the expansion of agricultural products and food imports, supporting enterprises to expand exports, simplifying the approval of quarantine for imported special medical items, simplifying the procedures for postponing processing trade, simplifying the verification procedures for factory inspections, handling administrative penalties from simplicity to speed, actively carrying out international coordination and cooperation, strengthening the response to foreign restricted trade measures, and giving full play to the role of "Internet + Customs". (36Kr)

　　9. Ministry of Commerce: Encourage e-commerce companies to help farmers sell goods through live broadcasts and other means

　　According to February 17, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Connection of Agricultural Products Production and Sales During the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period". The "Notice" proposes that e-commerce companies should provide traffic support through various channels such as poverty alleviation channels, special zones, live streaming and sales, open green channels for farmers to settle in, and broaden the sales channels for unsold agricultural products; they should provide targeted training courses and services, increase targeted assistance to merchants in areas with severe epidemics and unsold areas, reduce training fees, and provide operational diagnosis and other services. (IT Home)

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　　10. Amazon calls itself “the biggest defender of small businesses on the planet”

　　According to Sina US stocks, Nick Dennison, Amazon's vice president of small business business, recently said that Amazon is "the biggest defender of small businesses on the planet", and Amazon will spend $15 billion to buy new tools to help more than 1.9 million small businesses that rely on Amazon every day. It is understood that during Amazon founder and CEO Bezos' visit to India in January, he also announced that he would invest an additional $1 billion in India to help local small and medium-sized enterprises achieve digitalization. (E-commerce News)

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