This "2025 Alibaba Cloud White Paper on Chinese Enterprises Going Global" focuses on the topic of Chinese enterprises expanding overseas, with the core being how Alibaba Cloud helps Chinese companies tackle challenges and seize opportunities in the process of globalization. The main contents are as follows:
New Characteristics of Chinese Enterprises Going Global
- Spillover of production capacity and talent dividends: Chinese enterprises, leveraging high-quality production capacity (such as steel, home appliances, photovoltaics, etc.) and the engineer dividend (a large group of engineers and technological innovation capabilities), have improved their position in the global supply chain. For example, the export volume of new energy vehicles in 2023 increased nearly sixfold year-on-year, driving the formation of a new global supply chain for upstream and downstream industries.
- Deepening of overseas expansion: Expanding from simple commodity exports to multiple dimensions such as technology and culture, for example, the game "Black Myth: Wukong" spreads Chinese culture, and Xiaohongshu has become a platform for China-US exchanges.
Challenges for Chinese Enterprises Going Global and the Role of Cloud Computing
- Five major challenges: including globalized operations, complex environments, supply chain assurance, regulatory compliance, and cultural differences. More than 60% of enterprises face issues of cultural differences and low brand awareness, and more than 55% are affected by the dynamic international business environment.
- Cloud computing as the foundation: Cloud computing can provide globalized, elastically scalable IT infrastructure to meet enterprises' needs for rapid response to overseas markets, and can also help address issues such as security compliance and business traffic peaks.
Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Service Provider
- Security and compliance capabilities (more than 70% of enterprises value the completeness of compliance certifications), resource reserve capabilities (global service coverage), product and technical capabilities (elastic and scalable architecture), service assurance capabilities, and practical experience accumulation.
Alibaba Cloud's Overseas Technical Architecture and Capabilities
- Security and compliance: Holds more than 140 global compliance qualifications, covering compliance at the cloud platform, data, and business levels, such as meeting EU GDPR, US NIST, and other standards.
- Global data centers: Built 29 regions, 87 availability zones, and 3,200 edge nodes. In 2025, new data centers will be built in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia, supporting the construction of AI business intelligent computing clusters.
- Global network: Through the "global unified network" solution, such as elastic public IP, Cloud Enterprise Network, etc., it solves the problem of cross-regional network latency. A certain mobile phone manufacturer has improved network cost-effectiveness with its help.
- Business digitalization platform: Provides standardized and unified cloud services, such as the Feitian operating system, which shields the complexity of underlying hardware and supports globally consistent application deployment and management. Heartbeat Company uses the PolarDB database to support high-concurrency access for games.
- AI-driven innovation: The Tongyi large model family supports 119 languages, provides API calls and independent deployment solutions, and Leapmotor uses it to optimize intelligent cockpit voice interaction.
- Global technical services: Established 27 localized service centers, providing 7×24 hour service, covering the entire process from pre-sales to after-sales, such as serving Bilibili to meet high concurrency demands.
Future Prospects and Suggestions
- Emerging market layout: Focus on emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East, leverage policy dividends such as RCEP, and use data analysis to accurately enter the market.
- Innovation and value co-creation: Increase investment in innovation, develop products based on local needs, collaborate with local institutions for innovation, and use digital means to optimize R&D and services.
In summary, the white paper demonstrates Alibaba Cloud's comprehensive support from technical architecture to service ecosystem, helping Chinese enterprises achieve compliant, efficient, and innovative development in their overseas expansion.
