22 march 2017 jack Ma , Malaysia
Transcript
Good afternoon prime minister friends from Malaysia
and china
Its my great honor I am so excited today here to launch the
free trade zone
4 months ago prime minister and I were in Beijing- we talked
about deciding to do something (it took us 10 minutes to agree) that Malaysia
launch the digital free trade zone (DTFZ)
At that time I think my team and I thought is it possible to
do in 4 months
because we had been discussing that project with many
countries in europe and asia
for 4 months to launch that its almost impossible there are
so many things to do the bureacratics, all the technology, all the suspicions
but after 4 month this thing happened
and I want to share some ideas here
while it only took us 10 minutes to agree on this project
but I have been thinking about this for more than 10 years
and I am pretty sure prime minster has thought about this
for long long time
you prepare it for long time and then when the chance comes
you can make it happen
Malaysia inspired me in 1996/7 when I was starting my internet business in
1995 I remember reading news in china in 1996 about Mounting Media Corridor
out of Malaysia- while it didn’t work lout but it made me feel that country
has a great idea for the digital world
And the thing that I learned many years ago when I was first
invited to davos’ world economic forum, at that time china had not joined WTO-
I though the world is going to welcome the globalisation but that day hundereds
of people were against it , people were
demonstrating on street hating globalisation – so I had no idea,
Because I was thinking globalisation was good but the people
didn’t like it so I started to think what is globalisation, how can we do it in
a better ways?
Thas was 2001… but I think today a lot of people hate cross
border trade, people say globalsiation
is no good
I am a strong believer in globalization, I think it is still
only a baby,
Its only 20 or 30 years, we should give it another 20-30
years we should make globaslisation more inclusive more people involved in it
In history, those countries who had great emperors or
kings they controled trade, AND if they loved to do cross-border trade, their
nation’s business would grow and the people would be happy
In the past 50 years the world trade was controlled by 60000
big companies, and only big companies have this opportunity
so the small businesses didn’t have this opportunity,
so developing countries did not have this opportunity,
--what if we can make 90% of the small business , the
developing countries benefit from globalisation., what if we give another 30
years to the globalsiation to be more inclusive
This is what I believe
The first globalization was the silk road
And at that time they were using the traditional way the
silk road
Today with the internet we should transfer silk road to
e-road’
the eroad should connect every country,
the eroad is to give inclusive opportunity for everyone,
you know in old time on oceans we have seaport,
airplanes we have an airport,
bus we have a bustop,
on the er-oad we need an ehub--- that ehub will empower
everybody if you have a dream and working hard and have a dream outside your
country please join an ehub
so today the DFTZ (digital free trade zone) is the first
digital trade free zone outside china –and its amazing and i would really love
to thank prime minister of malyasia and thank everybody here to give commitment
to this project=this is the first hub specifically designed for small
enterprise and young people, we know in the whole world every government says
ah small business is important, we should find real solutions for the real
;policies for the real facilities to empower the small business
this ehub, this digital freed trade that we feel excited
about and we promise we will work together to improve it
and this is the new beginning
and the other thing I want to say in this Digital Global
Free Zone we will use the new technology to empower small business and young
people there will be logistic hubs, one stop service, we will have big data, as
long as you have a good product, good ideas, this facility is going to enable
you
and people say why Malaysia ..of
course, I sat 4 months ago in Beijing
and I wondered if we could make it happen but I have found malaysia
is very business friendly
the other thing is this SILK ROAD
story
the silk road which china is famous for , but without malaysia
it would not have been so successful;
why?
The silk road main trade was tea leaves- very expensive very
diffucult to preserve but Malaysia had the best mine of tins- because of tin
plus tea – the TT =- made the silk road happen –without the tin of Malaysia the
silk road tea trade would never have been that big .and of course without tea
tradinh in 18th c Malaysia would never have been number 1 in market
of tea
So this is the amazing outcome of trade and of busienss and
I feel sorry for the wto negotiation because when you put 200 governmenyt
officers in one room to agree on something it is very difficult, but if we can
put 200 business people in the room we can negotiate something
And by working with government business people can do better,
this is a perfect project that a globalisation company like ali baba and a
country with great leaderip/vision, that we make this thing happen in 4 month=-
of course this is only a beginning
And I am a strong believer that if trade stops, wars starts
Trade is to make people respect the other peoples culture
(trade is not inaudible)
Trade is about idea exchange
I believe if one day if trade stops wars start; and if wars
stop trade begins== so in alibaba history its our first time our ceo of ali
baba group and ceo of ali financing and senior management of alibaba together
with 16 logsitics companies from china come to Malaysia for this great
event …we think today symbolises that
government and business can work together, this sympbolises that a nation would
commit the digital period to be inclusive for everybody
If we start from today things can happen
And I want to say in the last 10 years many thing changed
..nobody would believe ecommerce could happen in china
people keep on asking why alibaba go that way of ecommerce,
bigger than the united states not because we are not smart, I am not smart, we
didn’t have a lot of smart people 15 years ago, its because 15 years ago the
business infrastructure in china was that bad – in usa in 2000 the commerce
infrastructure was very good so very difficult for ecommerce to survive in
usa.. ecommerce is just a desert but in china it is the main course
and I think the same can be in Malaysia – I heard that 97%
of business in Malaysia are small business but they control less than 40% of
GP, I think that the 97% can produce at least 80% of gdp –then if we have more
sme we have more jobs, if we have more sme we have more middle class, if we
have more sme the country’s economy can
be sustainable
SO DFTZ is trying to make business more inclusive, trying to
make small business more sustainable , trying to make the business world more
happy and healthy.
-eg ebusiness grows so fast in chain we also grow the business
of logistics, today the 16 companies coming here get 70% of logistics bsuienss
delivered in china- NB 15 years ago china only did 1 billion package deliveries
a year , today its 30 billion packages, and 70% of the logistics is done buy
these 16 businesses none of which existed 10 years ago
this is the magic of tech, of the entrepreneurship so if you
really want to do it you can make this happen, we want to make this hub ensure
that "72-hour
delivery anywhere in the world in 20 years" –this will be the hub of the
region and working together
and
finally I wanted to say the first time the wrong defintion of ali baba was in
malaysia- they think ali baba is a thief – peopel called me thief and liar 18
years ago when I tell about what is the internet in the fuuire what ecommerce
will do in the world’
so
lets wwork together to change the dictionary in malaysia
and
I also want to add that last year I fly in the air for more than 8000 hours I travelled
around the world and I learnt what globalisation mean – its not to go to another
place because of cheap laboir, its not
about factories where there are cheap raw materianls. Glolbalisation does mean
create jobs, create values for local people, globalization make technology/financing
inclusinve in everything
globalization means respect the other culture so this is
what we want to do in next decade –use technology making young people below 30
years making small businesses below 30 people, this can be the great period
for human life, lets do it in a good way
so the silk road .one belt one road , is something we should
think about, we should use technology, empower young people , lets mobilise
small business its about inclusive friendship peace, and I think this country
this location so friendly to business not only today, in history, and in the
future –because of the digital , this country this regon can grow, and finally
people keep asking in future which side
will win the west side or the east side? – and I am believer its NOT west wing
or east wing –if we work toetrher we both win
and there is nothing we cannot do if we are working together
making sure the world is for young people and the world is for small bsuiness
and everything we do is inclusive
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