Source: Caijing.com
2021-11-06 17:18
More and more small and medium-sized enterprises will start their dream of “selling the world“. On November 6, the United Nations International Trade Center (ITC) announced its cooperation with Alibaba International Station to launch the “Global Digital Trade Accelerator for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Developing Countries” program. The program is aimed at traditional small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, and provides course training and operational support including digital product display, business opportunity matching, marketing promotion, etc., and incubates digital benchmarking enterprises.
Zhang Yong, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba, said in a video speech that the epidemic has continued to pose challenges to global trade in the past two years, but challenges will always accompany opportunities. A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises are exploring the use of digital methods to develop and even continue to expand their business scale. Digital trade has become an engine leading the reform of global trade, and it is reconstructing the world economic development picture like never before. Among them, the vast number of developing countries is a hot spot for the development of digital trade, and small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of participating in digital trade.
ITC Executive Director Cook Hamilton believes that e-commerce is a key channel for SMEs to achieve rapid growth.
Alibaba International Station is the world‘s leading cross-border B2B e-commerce platform. Sellers come from more than 140 countries and regions around the world, and buyers cover more than 200 countries and regions. ITC is a joint institution established by the United Nations and the World Trade Organization, dedicated to promoting the economic and social development of developing countries through the promotion of aid for trade. The release of the above plan is considered to be a high degree of agreement between the two parties in supporting the development of SMEs and participating in global trade.
(Photo: Alibaba International Station pioneered cross-border B2B live broadcasting)
“Although global trade is currently facing many uncertainties, the development trend of digitalization is certain.” Zhang Kuo, president of Alibaba International Station, told reporters that thanks to the dividends of the national foreign trade policy and the development of science and technology, Alibaba International Station takes the lead. A digital cross-border service trade system including information flow, capital flow, logistics and talent cultivation has been constructed.
Zhang Kuo said that since last year, Alibaba International Station has opened online exhibitions, 3D exhibition halls and other digital trade scenes, and the first cross-border B2B live broadcast has accumulated more than 300,000 sessions. Since this year, the digital cross-border collection tool, alibaba.com pay, has been launched, which has realized global collection and payment, and the fastest receipt of money in seconds, helping small and medium-sized enterprises to manage funds in a convenient and convenient way. The “Worry-Free Shipping” and “Worry-Free Air Transport” launched by United Shipping and Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. provide SMEs with digital towing subscription services, air and sea logistics solutions. In the current hugely fluctuating freight network, the construction of the Sexual freight services.
Yi Xiaozhun, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Commerce and former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, believes that e-commerce provides developing countries with an opportunity for overtaking on a curve. The cooperation between Alibaba International Station and ITC is fulfilling corporate social responsibility. , To promote the growth of more SMEs.
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