ALIBABA IN ACTION: COVID-19

Alibaba Group leads China's post-pandemic economic recovery by participating in two major shopping festivals. Also, the company's travel-services platform Fliggy rolled out a series of measures to help the travel and hospitality industries recover.

Sharing knowledge, experience and best practices are of the utmost importance to combat Covid-19, Jack Ma said in a webinar that brought together medical practitioners in Africa and China to discuss ways to fight against the coronavirus outbreak. The two-hour session was broadcast on the Global MediXchange for Combating Covid-19 platform.

Lazada has rolled out a series of initiatives to support Southeast Asian communities in the ongoing battle against Covid-19. Since the outbreak of the disease, the Alibaba Group-owned e-commerce platform has been mobilizing resources in its ecosystem to protect merchants and customers as well as other impacted stakeholders across the region.

Global Citizen and the World Health Organization recently brought together the world’s top musicians and entertainers for an online concert to raise funds for the ongoing global response to Covid-19. The One World: Together at Home special united people virtually through the power of music and advocacy when it streamed on April 18.

VIDEO: Established by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation, the Global Medixchange for Combating Covid-19 is an online platform that encourages healthcare workers around the world to share knowledge and insights about the coronavirus outbreak. As of April, close to 3,000 healthcare workers from all corners of the globe have joined the platform.

As eco-friendly shoe brand Allbirds marks its first anniversary in China and Tmall, the company's president of international talks about how the business leveraged technology and its omnichannel capabilities to continue sharing its message of sustainability during the pandemic.

Alibaba Group announced that it would invest an additional RMB200 billion ($28 billion) into its cloud-computing division over the next three years. Alibaba Cloud Intelligence President Jeff Zhang said that the investment aimed to help businesses embrace digital technology and recover from coronavirus-related disruptions. The business also launched a Global SME Enablement Program, offering more than $30 million in cloud-technology support to small and medium-sized enterprises impacted by Covid-19.