Announces the launch of Malaysia Week in July
to promote sale of quality Malaysian products and tourism to China
consumers
Alibaba Group opened its national office in Malaysia today,
marking a new chapter in the company’s deepening strategic
cooperation with Malaysia, which is the first eWTP hub outside of
China.
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Left to Right: Ambassador Bai Tian, China
Ambassador to Malaysia, Jack Ma, Executive Chairman and Founder of
Alibaba Group, YB Lim Guan Eng, Finance Minister of Malaysia,
Gobind Singh Deo, Minister of Communication & Multimedia
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Located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur at The Vertical Bangsar
South, the new office signifies Alibaba Group’s continued endeavour
to bolster the technology capability of Malaysian SMEs and young
entrepreneurs, provide support and platforms to assist them to
drive exports, as well as offering extensive training programs to
help them take advantage of digital innovations and trade
opportunities.
“Alibaba’s focus is on three areas when we partner with Malaysia
as well as other countries – to digitize our local partners and
empower small businesses and young people to go global. Over the
past 30 years, only large corporations have benefited from
globalisation. Imagine if we can support 60 million small business
around the world; this is Alibaba’s vision of an inclusive and
sustainable economy,” said Mr. Ma at the Alibaba office opening
ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.
“Working closely with the Malaysian government, we will support
and empower as many small businesses and young people as possible
to use technology to become local kings and benefit from
globalisation. This is the beginning of our story in Malaysia and I
think Alibaba’s story will be long and we will make this story
together,” he added.
Serving as a ‘one-stop solution centre’ for local businesses,
the country office is designed to engage with existing local
partners, help Malaysian businesses identify global cross-border
trade opportunities, as well as to support the country’s technology
innovation through cloud computing services.
“I would like to congratulate Alibaba for the opening of its
national office in Malaysia. We consider this a shining symbol of
China-Malaysia friendship that is based on mutual respect and
benefits that augurs well for the cooperation on the part of
governments, businesses and people from both countries. We look
forward to the opportunities this partnership will bring to
Malaysian SMEs and I am confident that the eWTP together with the
Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ), will encourage more Malaysian SMEs
to participate in ecommerce and increase their exports to other
countries in Asia and beyond.” said Minister of Finance Malaysia,
Yang Berhormat Lim Guan Eng, told guests at the ceremony.
“China and Malaysia have enjoyed a profound friendship and
flourishing trade over the centuries. The robust numbers we see
about our bilateral trade proves the strength of our economic
relations. The launch of Alibaba’s Malaysia office is yet another
step to boost a mutually beneficial cooperation between China and
Malaysia,” said Mr. Bai Tian, China’s Ambassador to Malaysia, at
the ceremony.
In November last year, Alibaba successfully launched its first
international eHub in Malaysia under the eWTP initiative, with an
emphasis on facilitating exports for Malaysian SMEs and creating
the infrastructure to support global trade with services
encompassing e-commerce, logistics, cloud computing, mobile payment
and talent training.
Since then, various initiatives have been undertaken by Alibaba
Group in Malaysia in order to build inclusive and innovative global
trading technology infrastructure for local SMEs, including the
establishment of Alibaba’s first regional e-fulfilment hub in the
KLIA Aeropolis DFTZ Park and the establishment of Alibaba Cloud’s
internet data centre in Malaysia - Malaysia’s first global public
cloud platform.
Announce launch of ‘Malaysia Week’ in China
During the opening ceremony, the Company also announced the
launch of ‘Malaysia Week’, a special online promotion initiative
that seeks to attract Chinese consumers to buy all-things Malaysian
from the 6th to the 12th of July 2018. The Malaysia Week campaign
is set to showcase an array of ‘Must-see’,
‘Must-eat’, and ‘Must-experience’ Malaysian products
and tourism across Alibaba’s platforms.
“Malaysia Week is the first time Alibaba has promoted one
country for an entire week. This symbolizes our commitment to
introduce and promote Malaysian products, services, culture and
tourism in China. We hope to continue to host promotional
activities such as this in the long term to enable local Malaysian
businesses expand their international exports in China and the rest
of the world,” Mr. Ma said.
More than 50 Malaysian brands, featuring a wide range of product
categories, will be showcased, in addition to a whole host of
exciting promotional activities to be launched during the
period.
‘Malaysia week’ is the result of fruitful discussions between
Alibaba Group and Malaysia since the launch of eWTP. Other
milestones in the development of Alibaba Group’s support for
Malaysia’s digital economy, include:
Logistics
- Commenced construction of a smart
e-fulfilment hub in Kuala Lumpur under a Cainiao-MAHB joint venture
to enable speedy storage, fulfilment, customs clearance and
warehousing operations.
Cloud computing
- Opened a local internet data center to
provide Malaysian enterprises a local choice to build their
businesses and run their applications on powerful, reliable and
secure world-class global cloud platform.
Training
- Trained thousands of individuals,
entrepreneurs and cloud computing professionals under various
programs in conjunction with leading Malaysian universities and
government agencies to support Malaysia’s sustainable e-commerce
development.
E-commerce
- Launched Malaysia Pavilion on
Alibaba.com to promote quality Malaysian products to global
buyers.
- Established a one-stop platform to
provide export facilitation with services ranging from marketing
and customs clearance, to streamlined permit application procedures
and tax declaration and more.
- Hosted March Expo with MDEC and MATRADE
to connect Malaysian wholesalers with global sales
opportunities.
- Held “Access to China Consumers”
seminar to help Malaysian exporters enter the China market with
participation of more than 500 Malaysian merchants.
- Announced the launch of Malaysia Week
in July 2018 to promote a broad range of Malaysian products and
services to China’s consumers.
About Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business
anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of
commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live
at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102
years.
About Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP)
The Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) initiative’s goal is
to build a more inclusive and innovative global trading platform
for SMEs, young people and consumers. The eWTP was proposed by Jack
Ma in 2016 and was accepted as a major policy recommendation of the
Business 20 (B20) and officially included in the 2016 G20 Leaders’
Communique.
Alibaba Group’s first eWTP hub outside of China has gone live in
Malaysia. The milestone follows Alibaba’s partnership with the
Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) to work jointly to
enable Malaysian small and medium-sized enterprises to benefit from
global trade.
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