Alibaba extends its reach in China as coronavirus outbreak opens doors

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is emerging as one of China's biggest corporate winners of the coronavirus crisis, gaining the opportunity to expand its businesses and solidify its status as a critical part of the country's socio-economic engine.

) have been able to weather the coronavirus storm better than smaller peers and concurrently reinforce their position, not only in the market but in the fabric of society itself.

Still, online merchants said Alibaba was able to use the crisis to pull further ahead of newer rivals like Pinduoduo Inc , building on earlier moves to promote services like livestreaming which soared in popularity with both users and merchants due to travel curbs. Pacific Epoch analyst Steven Zhu said Alibaba’s food delivery arm Ele.me was able to catch up with dominant peer Meituan Dianping during the virus, mainly by offering discounts which both had previously pulled back on.

Gao Daoxiang, 20, told Reuters he joined Ele.me as a driver in April when the hotpot restaurant he had worked for did not reopen after restrictions were lifted. Its workplace messaging app Dingtalk saw downloads through Apple’s App Store increase over 1,000% in February as work and schooling shifted to home computers, showed data from SensorTower. It is now a leader in a category vied for by social media leaders Tencent and ByteDance.

 

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Alibaba will stay put in China. The forty thieves will escape with the loot to Taiwan.

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