Before the May 1 holiday, Ma Yun, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba group, made a meaningful speech to Ali's 8000 Beijing staff: Ali empire is going to stop expanding, and the purpose is very simple. More than 30 thousand people are enough, although there are also electric business has reached 80 thousand people, God bless them.

Ma Yun once said that when Ali was 102 years old, that is, in 2100, the number of employees could not exceed 50 thousand. But now Ali is already an enterprise empire with 34 thousand employees. And this is from Alibaba It was only 16 years since 1999.

　　 Jack Ma Is it really so simple? Look at the whole speech of Ma, in addition to encouraging the staff of Beijing and concentrates their minds with ideals, the importance of Beijing is beyond words: "only when Beijing is deeply tied up, can it have an impact on China, and this life will not live in vain."

No matter what Ali wants to do. Strategic adjustment Let's look at Alibaba first. Alibaba's fourth quarter financial report showed that group revenue grew 40% to 26 billion 200 million yuan (4 billion 200 million US dollars), and revenue growth slowed down. Share price pressure has dropped from around $119 A share last year to around $85. The company is facing pressure to reduce costs and make a series of cuts. Since its IPO in the US, Ali group has entered various industries such as film industry, health and so on. With the rapid expansion in different fields, group management and talent shortage have become urgent.

Just as China's economy has entered a new normal, Premier Li Keqiang has regarded "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" as a new engine of China's economy and put forward the strategy of "Internet +". It expects to promote the integration of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and Internet of things with modern manufacturing industry, promote the healthy development of e-commerce, industrial Internet and Internet finance, and guide Internet companies to expand the international market. Ali has become a high speed practitioner of the "Internet +" strategy.

The "Internet plus" strategy has also spawned a surge of vertical electricity providers. The capital market has taken the opportunity to accelerate the development of vertical e-commerce. The traditional integrated e-commerce platform represented by Ali has become an inevitable choice to meet the individual needs of customers and optimize the team and the best soldier strategy. Ali Empire to stop expansion, the purpose is very simple, is to sort out the team.