On October 10, the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government signed an agreement on comprehensively deepening strategic cooperation with the Alibaba Group and Ant Financial Services Group. According to the agreement, Chongqing will continue to support Alibaba’s investment and business layout in the city. On the other hand, Alibaba will invest in and build a regional headquarters base in the city to promote the launch of Alibaba customer experience center, Freshhema supply chain operation center, and Alibaba’s China smart logistics backbone network node.

Alibaba will invest in and build a regional headquarters base in the city to promote the launch of the Freshhema supply chain operation center.

Since the three parties signed a contract on January 11, 2018, they have achieved phased cooperation results in various aspects. In the following comprehensive deepening of strategic cooperation, they will scale new heights based on their respective advantages. In this regard, they are slated to roundly further their collaboration in the digital economy, smart city construction, transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, international cooperation, and opening-up, talent training, and rural revitalization. For this purpose, they will give full play to Alibaba’s advantages as a 20-year-old digital economic entity to help the city realize digital and intelligent transformation.

In the past National Day holiday, Chongqing was one of the most appealing cities for individual tourists in the country. In the future, the city will also carry out in-depth cooperation with Alibaba in tourism to promote the “Yukuaixing” online car-hailing app and accelerate the digital transformation and upgrading of the tourism industry.

Alibaba will facilitate Chongqing to build a financial hub and drive economic growth through consumption upgrading.

Alibaba will facilitate Chongqing to build a financial hub and drive economic growth through consumption upgrading. Based on consumer finance, it will boost the high-quality growth of Chongqing’s financial industry, and assist the city in taking the lead in having all its counties covered by inclusive finance.

The digital transformation of the industry is also crucial for strategic cooperation between the two sides. In the industrial sector, they will continue to accelerate the supply-side reform of Chongqing’s manufacturing industry based on the “Flying Elephant” Industrial Internet Platform. In the agricultural sector, they will jointly breed-specific agricultural brands with a digital agricultural standardization demonstration base.

Alibaba will step up its efforts in boosting the construction of “smart Chongqing.”

Alibaba will step up its efforts in boosting the construction of “smart Chongqing” and help the city become a national demonstration city for intelligent application of big data. It will also propel the optimization and upgrading of Chongqing’s online platforms, such as “Yukuaiban,” a government service platform, and “Yukuairong,” a financing big data service platform for small and micro private enterprises. In this way, citizens and enterprises can lessen the difficulty of obtaining medical insurance, provident fund, tax, and other services.

As for people’s livelihood services, the two sides will jointly build the city into a national smart campus benchmark and a hub featuring all-round mobile payment, smart venues, and smart parking. Promoting the implementation of the “last mile” smart logistics solution of the Cai Niao is also involved, to innovate in various people’s livelihood services digitally.
In addition, the two sides will corporately advance international business development and strive to achieve breakthroughs in the cultivation of digital economic talent.

Source: Chongqing Daily