Malaysian prime minister mahathir mohamad visited alibaba's headquarters this morning and met with alibaba's chairman jack ma, the first leg of his trip to China
Alibaba focuses on three key technologies, ma said.2. Artificial intelligence;3.IOT Internet of things. In the future, all devices with electricity will become smart devices.
Previously, the white paper on China's blockchain technology and application development and the 2017 global blockchain enterprise patent ranking showed that alibaba ranked first with 49 blockchain patents in total.
Alibaba's attempt on blockchain is relatively advanced among the top Internet companies in China, and it is more of an attempt on application. Alibaba is undoubtedly the best one in the application of life scenario.
The layout was two years ago
Alibaba's layout in blockchain is mainly focused on the financial sector.Reporter found that alibaba affiliate ant financial had applied blockchain technology to some projects as early as two years ago.
In July 2016, ant financial first applied blockchain technology to the alipay aixin donation platform, and applied blockchain to the public welfare scene so that every donation can be tracked.
In March 2017, alibaba and pricewaterhousecoopers teamed up to announce that they would use new technologies such as "blockchain" to jointly create transparent and traceable cross-border food supply chains and build safer food markets.
In April 2018, ali cloud released the function of authentic product traceability of blockchain, and Tmall Luxury platform Luxury Pavilion launched the world's first genuine product traceability function based on blockchain technology.Consumer can check the place of origin of goods according to this function, the time of circulation link and so on.
In June 2018, the world's first blockchain-based e-wallet cross-border remittance service was launched in Hong Kong.Users of Hong Kong's version of alipay AlipayHK can send money to Philippine wallet Gcash via blockchain technology.The first transfer, made by Grace of the Philippines, who has been working in Hong Kong for 22 years, took just three seconds, compared with 10 minutes to a few days previously.This moment was witnessed by Chen maobo, financial secretary of Hong Kong, jianning fok, co-managing director of changhe group, jack ma, chairman of alibaba group, and Eric jing, chairman and CEO of ant financial services.
To win
Blockchain technology is seen as another revolution after the Internet.Faced with a situation where no progress means a retreat, Internet giants are reluctant to follow suit.
Baidu has been developing its blockchain layout for a long time.Baidu finance established a blockchain technology team in 2015, and invested in Circle, a us blockchain technology company, in 2016.And on February 4, 2018, baidu's blockchain project "letts dog" was quietly launched.
Tencent, as an Internet giant, has been known for its keen sense of smell and decisive investment.In the field of social software and games, are well-deserved giants in China.Since the introduction of blockchain technology, as China's leading Internet giant, early attention is also natural.
Tencent started to pay attention to blockchain technology in 2015 and set up a blockchain team at the end of 2015, ma said at the two sessions this year.
In April 2017, tencent officially released the white paper of tencent blockchain solution and tencent blockchain industry solution.Tencent cloud officially launched the blockchain financial level solution BaaS on nov 8, 2017.
Blockchain technology may be even more important to the world's leading Internet companies.In today's meeting, ma reiterated the importance of blockchain technology, showing alibaba's emphasis on this emerging technology.
"Thanks to alibaba, we have opened our eyes to new possibilities.You have applied technology to many areas and solved many of the problems facing humanity.Mr Mahathir said alibaba had shown Malaysia the power of data.
The continuous development of blockchain technology also benefits from the continuous participation of large companies.With a lot of capital and technology support, blockchain technology can be constantly developed to benefit the public.