Alibaba announced on April 7 that the special action of the "2020 Spring Thunder Initiative" to help small and medium-sized enterprises was launched again 11 years later. With Alibaba's digital capabilities, it will help small and medium-sized enterprises not only survive the immediate crisis but also find opportunities for the future.

Nowadays, the global diffusion of COVID-19 pandemic brings more uncertainty to the economy. It is urgent to expand domestic demand, stabilize foreign trade and help agriculture. The more crisis times, the closer Alibaba and SMEs are connected.

The latest Alibaba 2020 Spring Thunder Initiative released 16 supporting measures in five aspects, including foreign trade upgrading, online breakthrough, foreign trade assistance, domestic sales development, digital industrial belt building, intelligent network to help agriculture and financial support.

In order to help foreign trade enterprises transform and upgrade, and breakthrough online barriers, Alibaba has realized overseas online "cloud expansion customers" by relying on platforms such as Aliexpress, Lazada, and Taobao International; Alibaba has helped offline foreign trade enterprises build online exhibition halls, and it has cooperated with other regions to create digital business market and digital industrial belt with local characteristics.

In order to help foreign trade enterprises to rapidly develop the domestic market, China's domestic trade platform 1688.com opens a digital "foreign trade zone"; helps foreign trade enterprises without online business experience to directly become suppliers selected by Alibaba; for foreign trade manufacturing enterprises that have settled in Tmall, the annual fee of stores will be reduced and extended for three months; for small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises, Taobao will be opened green channels and provide corresponding support.

In order to build a digital industrial belt, Alibaba will build a number of digital "super origin business cards"; build 10 digital industrial belt clusters with an output value of more than 10 billion in China, and help 1000 factories with an output value of more than 100 billion online direct sales within three years; build 100 Taobao live broadcast industrial bases in each province where the national industrial belt gathers.

In order to realize the intelligent network to help agriculture and prosper agriculture, 1000 Alibaba digital agricultural bases will be built nationwide; in-depth source direct mining will be carried out, the brand of agricultural products of origin will be promoted, and the live broadcast of origin traceability will be organized; and the urban cooperation plan for agricultural products will be launched.

To help more SMEs get rid of their financial difficulties, the free "zero account" service will be extended to June 30th, and the Internet business bank will pay for the eligible platform merchants. Together with the All-china federation of industry and commerce and 100 Banks, E-bank provides contactless loans to 10 million small and micro-businesses. 1688.com and Alipay will provide one-stop, online and convenient purchase channels for merchants, and supports the purchase mode of credit account.

阿里巴巴4月7日宣布，時隔11年再次啟動扶助中小企業的特別行動——“春雷計劃”，發揮阿里巴巴數字化能力，幫助中小企業不僅度過眼前的“?！?，更要找到面向未來的“機”。

如今，新冠肺炎疫情的全球擴散給經濟帶來更多不確定性，擴內需、穩外貿、助農興農迫在眉睫。越是危機時刻，阿里巴巴和中小企業的連接就越緊密。

最新公布的《阿里巴巴春雷計劃2020》出臺五大方面16項扶助措施，包括外貿升級線上突圍、助力外貿開拓內銷、打造數字化產業帶、智慧網絡助農興農、金融支持“再扶一把”。

為幫助外貿企業轉型升級、線上突圍，阿里巴巴依托速賣通、Lazada、天貓海外等平臺，實現海外線上“云拓客”；阿里巴巴國際站幫助線下外貿企業搭建線上展館；聯合各地打造地方特色數字化商貿市場和數字化產業帶。

為幫助外貿企業迅速開拓內銷市場，中國內貿平臺1688.com（“1688”）開設數字化“外貿專區”；幫助沒有線上經營經驗的外貿企業直接成為天貓超市、淘寶心選供貨商；對已入駐天貓的外貿制造業企業，減免店鋪年費延長3個月；為中小外貿企業開通入駐淘寶企業店綠色通道，并提供相應支持。

為打造數字化產業帶，阿里巴巴將打造一批數字化“超級產地名片”；在全國打造10個產值過百億的數字化產業帶集群，三年內幫助1000個工廠線上直銷產值過億；在全國產業帶聚集省，每省打造100個淘寶直播產業基地。

為實現智慧網絡助農興農，將在全國建設1000個阿里巴巴數字農業基地；深入原產地直采，推廣原產地農產品品牌，組織產地溯源直播；啟動農產品城市合作計劃。

為幫助更多中小企業擺脫資金困境，免費“0賬期”服務延至6月30日，網商銀行為符合條件的平臺商家墊付貨款；網商銀行聯合全國工商聯和100家銀行，為1000萬小微商戶提供無接觸貸款；支付寶聯合1688，為商家提供一站式、在線便捷進貨渠道，同時支持賒賬進貨模式。

 (Executive Editor: Ye Ke)