On April 10th, Jack Ma posted on the Alibaba intranet titled "To Reform and Innovation", highly affirming the courage of the new management team composed of Cai Chongxin and Wu Yongming to change, stating that Alibaba has returned to a healthy growth track and supports continued reform. The reporter learned that this is the first time in five years since retirement that Jack Ma has shared his thoughts on the company's reform, innovation, and future prospects in a lengthy manner.
In the article, Jack Ma praised the courage and effectiveness of the company's new management reform over the past year. "Facing problems and the future, believing in young people, fully empowering the young team, and making decisive and clear choices about what we want and don't want." "The most core change of this year is not to catch up with KPIs (core performance indicators), but to recognize oneself and return to the path of customer value."
For the future of the industry, Ma Yun judged that "the time span of three to five years is just like a century long for the Internet field, which is enough to bring about earth shaking changes". He said, "Not only should we be brave enough to admit and correct yesterday's problems in a timely manner, but we should also reform towards the future." He encouraged employees to innovate at the right time and constantly do things that others dare not do, do not want to do, and have not done before.
According to insiders at Alibaba, Jack Ma signed the name "Fengqingyang" in this post, stating that "although Mr. Ma is not in a specific management position, as the founder, he always stands up at the most critical moments of the company's development to help employees clarify and motivate.".