Jack Ma: The future has come

Chapter 1 For the Reader

On September 2016, 9, the G6 Hangzhou Summit Communiqué was officially released, and the EWTP proposal initiated by Jack Ma, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, was included in Article 30 of the Communiqué.In the English version of the G20 Hangzhou Summit Communiqué, the English abbreviation EWTP[1] of Electronic World Trade Platform is given.A proposal from the Chinese people was written into the official communiqué of the G[-] leaders meeting, which shows that the summit attaches great importance to EWTP.

On the following September 9, Ma Yun was invited to serve as a special advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in New York. Ban Ki-moon, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, personally issued a letter of appointment for Ma Yun.This is the first time that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has hired such a consultant since its establishment in 20, and Jack Ma's taking on this important role also makes him an international spokesperson for helping small and medium-sized enterprises and young entrepreneurs from various countries to participate in global trade.

When asked by reporters about the timetable for the implementation of EWTP, Jack Ma said that the world now needs to help small and medium-sized enterprises. If the annual export transaction volume of small and medium-sized enterprises to foreign countries is less than 100 million US dollars, they need to create some tax exemption policies, 24-hour quality inspection and Customs clearance and some fast lanes, including logistics, etc. "But it is very difficult to achieve in the short term. It is impossible to achieve this goal within one or two years. It will take at least 5 to 10 years. The WTO (World Trade Organization), which was established in January 1995, was established in October 1. GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) signed in Geneva in June. It has been nearly 1947 years from GATT to WTO, so we might as well give EWTP ten years."

We have reason to believe that the status of UN Special Advisor will help Ma Yun realize the dream of EWTP and Monet Global faster.

29 years ago, Jack Ma created the "English Corner" by the West Lake in Hangzhou, China, based on his experience of learning English as a tour guide for foreigners at the gate of a Hangzhou hotel when he was 12 years old. 22 years ago, Jack Ma, a trendy young man, first came into contact with the Internet in Seattle, USA; 4 months later, Hangzhou Haibo Computer Service Co., Ltd., the first Internet business company in China founded by Jack Ma, was established; 1 month later, "China Yellow Pages "Officially launched. 18 years ago, Ma Yun, who has been laughing at himself for "not understanding technology", co-founded "Alibaba" with other "Seventeen Arhats". 14 years ago, during the "SARS" period, Jack Ma founded "Taobao" with the original intention of "making the world easy to do business".In just three years, Taobao quickly occupied the leading position in the market and created a Chinese legend in the development of Internet companies... As time goes by, Jack Ma has never been favored on the road to entrepreneurship, and was once regarded as a "liar" .When the wheel of history passed through the first decade of the new century, that is, since 2010, with the development of the global Internet and the growth of China's economy, Jack Ma, who participated in changing the form of China's consumer economy, participated in APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), WTO , Davos World Economic Forum and other international conferences, "stand" for small and medium-sized enterprises!And the stage is getting bigger and bigger!Today, he is again standing as an advocate for revising the rules of the global trade game.

According to the consensus reached at the B20 Hangzhou Summit (Group of Twenty Business Summit), there will be active dialogue between governments and public departments, between officials and enterprises, aiming to promote and promote the establishment of relevant rules for the health of cross-border e-commerce Develop an effective policy and business environment.In Jack Ma's vision, this will create a free, fair, and open trade platform for small and medium-sized enterprises and businesses all over the world, allowing small and medium-sized enterprises and young people to more easily enter the global market and participate in the global economy.

For this proposal, at the beginning of 2016, Jack Ma from Hangzhou traveled to more than 30 countries and regions around the world to promote the concept of EWTP.Like an active "evangelist", he has contacted leaders, government officials, and business leaders of many countries and regions, repeatedly expounded and called on various occasions to allow small and medium-sized enterprises to compete on an equal footing in the international trade arena, and has gained a lot of attention from politicians and business leaders from many countries. Businessman's response and consensus.

Ma Yun said that in the next ten years, he will spend more energy helping small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs.Jack Ma's attention perspective and main energy have developed from the small self to the big self, from Ali's own development to the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, green environmental protection, education, economic globalization, anti-dumping, and how young people adapt to globalization for entrepreneurship and innovation, etc. field.

Authorized by Alibaba Group, we carefully sorted out Jack Ma's internal speeches on various occasions in the past three years, and compiled this book "Jack Ma: The Future Has Come".The book is divided into six parts: Globalization in the 21st Century, Ali's Next Decade, Ma Yun's Internet World View, Young People Are the Future, Our Responsibilities, and Dialogue with the World.

As an entrepreneur who can freely switch between eastern and western ways of thinking, what Jack Ma is more willing to do is to discuss the world and the future with young people and entrepreneurs from an equal perspective through this book.He feels that Alibaba is what it is today because of openness; the development of the world in the past 50 years has become what it is today because of openness.Whether it is trade, business exchanges, politics, or diplomacy among countries in the world, they are all moving towards opening up.The world has benefited from openness, and it should benefit from openness in the future. The world must move towards more and more openness.

But Jack Ma also has deep concerns about some anti-globalization tendencies, such as trade barriers that restrict business development and cause regional imbalances.In this book, he expounded: the past globalization was a globalization that benefited big countries and large companies, while developing countries and small and medium-sized enterprises did not benefit, and 30 billion young people did not benefit.Globalization itself is a good thing, but globalization itself needs to be improved. Some problems should not be negated, but globalization should be improved.Therefore, he believes that EWTP is actually a supplement to WTO.

"Whatever is needed ten years from now, we will start to do it today!" This is the secret of Jack Ma, the idol of young people, able to reach the top.

Ma Yun, who has passed his destiny, will lobby governments and companies around the world in the next ten years, just like Confucius traveled around the world 2500 years ago.Through his entrepreneurial experience and his original intention to serve the global free, equal, green and honest trade infrastructure and system construction, he will vigorously advocate the creation of employment opportunities for young people and business opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises.

What do you have, what do you want, what can you give up—Chapter 4 of this book is a song dedicated to young people by Jack Ma.He thinks that the best university in life is a social university. He admits that he does not read many books. Sometimes a book can be read for a long time, such as "Tao Te Ching" and "Sun Tzu's Art of War". Watch it over and over again, over and over again.His books are not only placed in the office, but also placed in the bathroom, next to the pillow, and taken on the plane... He told young people that reading is important, but seeing the world is more important, and reading thousands of books requires traveling thousands of miles.In his opinion, after seeing all kinds of people in the world, listening to all kinds of opinions, and communicating with outstanding people, your vision and depth of seeing problems will be very different.But in the end, no matter how many people's thoughts you collide with, you still have to think with your own head.Reading books will increase a person's IQ; social experience will increase a person's EQ; and when you are exposed to all kinds of poor things, painful things, and beautiful things in the world, your love quotient will also increase. will get high.Only when a person combines IQ, EQ and love quotient can he have a full personality.

What we need ten years from now, we start doing it today!Because the future is here!Open this book, listen to "Ma Yun's words" from the future world, and run with him!
editor

April 2017

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