This section is about people – the talented people who work for us, and the people in society whom our platforms serve. When it comes to people, we are driven by our core values and our passion to use our technology to solve society's problems.
Employees (as of June 2018)
Raised by charitable organizations on our platform in fiscal year 2018
Villages served by Rural Taobao Program
Missing children reunited with their parents using our "Reunion System" technology (as of May 2018)
Recognizing that the technology industry in which we operate is a highly competitive market for talent, our ability to recruit, retain, train and reward a talented and diverse workforce is critical to our long-term business success. We believe that people join our company because we offer a clear mission and vision, and the opportunity to solve world-class problems at scale.
Our culture values meritocracy over hierarchy
Our employees are appraised on how well their conduct at work reflects our six core values in addition to business performance, and these value-based ratings will affect employee compensation and promotion decisions.
The "Reunion" platform has received international attention and supports global efforts on child protection
Using our technological capabilities and our employees' dedication to social issues, our engineers developed a system that connects our and our partners' mobile apps to help locate infants and young children who have been abducted in China. The 'Reunion' system leverages Alibaba-operated apps with hundreds of millions of users to crowd-source information. Since 2016, the platform has helped law enforcement authorities successfully locate 3,328 missing children, reflecting a 97.6% success rate.
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund is a not-for-profit initiative with a HK$1 billion fund in Hong Kong and NT$10 billion fund in Taiwan to provide selected entrepreneurs with capital, technology guidance and mentorship in managing their businesses. We facilitate start-ups that receive funding to develop their business by leveraging the Alibaba Digital Economy, including our e-commerce marketplaces as well as cloud computing and logistics systems.
Our mission, vision and partnership system define our unique governance model
Read moreAlibaba's robust technology capabilities help us manage platform governance risk and build trust with brands.
Read moreWe are committed to minimizing the environmental impact from our data centers and logistics network.
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We built our business model around our mission – to make it easy to do business anywhere. Hence, a focus on issues such as consumer trust, small business enablement, job creation and empowerment of women entrepreneurs naturally follows from our mission. The Alibaba Digital Economy has directly or indirectly created tens of millions of jobs.