The next day, the miracle of Taobao continued, and it was upgraded once again.
After the relevant health departments discussed overnight, they came up with a distribution plan that covered 180 cities. Most of these 180 cities were concentrated in densely populated areas, and the focus was on the epidemic areas. From the perspective of the national epidemic prevention front, this plan was very scientific and rigorous.
After the distribution plan for the 180 cities was out, it was time for Taobao to perform.
Yang Ma received insider information in advance and contacted Taobao Technology in advance. They hoped to send a few documentary teams to follow the entire process of Taobao's distribution to several representative cities.
In other words, from leaving the warehouse to sorting, packaging, the entire process of transportation, distribution, and receipt, Mother Yang hoped to follow along. They hoped to be able to record the entire transportation process of these materials, which carried great respect for life and special protection, as well as the sense of mission.
Naturally, Li Mu did not refuse. Yang Ma's ability to shoot documentaries was the best in the country. They might be able to shoot a documentary about the national fight against SARS after the epidemic was over, and Taobao was very likely to become a special part of this documentary.
Although Li Mu took great pains and took great risks to contribute to the epidemic, most of it was out of his sense of responsibility to society, he had some selfish motives.
The SARS period was a very special period. It took away the health and lives of some patients in a short period of time, destroyed the prices of urgently needed materials, affected the physical retail economy, and made people fearful of the epidemic.
However, it was undeniable that SARS had its positive effects.
Although the SARS war was somewhat tragic, it really raised the country's major epidemic prevention and control capabilities by more than one level. It was also from that time onwards that major hospitals began to set up specialized fever clinics. Customs, airports, and transportation hubs were also equipped with high-end infrared temperature detection systems. The health system's ability to monitor and respond to various epidemics had a qualitative leap. As a result, the subsequent influenza, and even the infectious diseases from overseas, did not have the chance to spread in the country. This was the positive effect that SARS brought to society, and its positive effects were continuous and far-reaching.
Other than this positive effect, there was also a reasonable but unexpected positive effect. This positive effect was that it greatly promoted the popularity of online shopping and the development of the entire e-commerce industry.
This was a small part of Li Mu's selfishness.
In his previous life, during the SARS period, Boss Ma had rapidly expanded his e-commerce business. In a short period of time, he had forced the unattainable online shopping habit into a lifestyle with strong dependence, which laid a solid foundation for the development of Taobao.
In this life, Li Mu also hoped to be able to contribute to SARS, and at the same time, bring a certain degree of improvement to his company.
This kind of height and speed of improvement was probably something that could not be achieved no matter how hard one worked normally.
Ever since the Taobao website opened up the purchase of epidemic prevention materials at a fair price, more than 30 million new registered users had doubled.
These users basically covered all parts of the country, and a considerable number of them were users from areas where the epidemic had not been discovered. They registered their accounts in advance because they were worried that the epidemic would suddenly be discovered in their area. Instead of making last-minute efforts, it was better to register their accounts in advance.
The number of Alipay accounts had also increased by 30 million, and among them, there were more than 10 million users who had bound their bank cards.
Fortunately, the "Internet into the home" policy had been advancing rapidly. After Shenzhou Computer had the participation of Li Mu, it had been desperately suppressing the price of the entire PC. Now, the cost of purchasing a computer and the cost of accessing a network were all decreasing. More importantly, after Li Mu became famous, the attitude of the people in the country towards computers and the Internet had changed greatly. In the past, parents prevented their children from accessing computers and the Internet, but now, they hoped that their children could be like Li Mu and become a talent in the field of the Internet. Therefore, the speed at which computers and the Internet were popularized today was much faster than in Li Mu's previous life.
If the Taobao website was brought to the capital market now, it would not be difficult for it to be valued at more than 10 billion USD. After all, the current market value of eBay had exceeded 30 billion USD. Its current user volume and trading volume were probably surpassed by Taobao. The reason why it had a market value of more than 30 billion USD was because it was a listed company.
When the SARS crisis was completely over, the overall size of Taobao website would inevitably increase. At that time, its valuation would also reach a new height. Li Mu even felt that Taobao website could consider Series A financing after the SARS crisis.
When he thought about a company that had a valuation of more than 10 billion USD during Series A financing, Li Mu felt like he was in a dream. This kind of case was probably unprecedented in the global business field. As for whether there would be others that could do it, perhaps only Li Mu had the ability to replicate it.
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Taobao Logistics demonstrated its unparalleled speed and efficiency in front of the people of the country.
Liu Shixiong personally commanded the transportation capacity to guarantee the delivery of donated materials. Therefore, after receiving the distribution list from the relevant health department in the morning, the entire Taobao Logistics quickly coordinated and used the fastest speed to transport the materials out of the warehouse, sorting, and packing. The receiving units and warehouses in the same city sent special vehicles to quickly deliver the materials at noon. The surrounding cities also did not dare to delay.
By afternoon, most of the receiving units had received the materials that were exactly the same as the distribution list.
Before 12 o 'clock in the evening, Taobao had delivered the corresponding materials to more than 300 receiving units in 180 cities. There was not a single mistake, not even a single extra mask.
This efficiency exceeded the people's imagination of the speed of express delivery, and it gave a huge impression to Taobao Logistics.
What made Li Mu most gratified was that the moment this batch of materials arrived at the receiving units, it immediately began to work. These medical workers who were fighting on the front lines immediately changed into extremely high-grade protective masks, protective clothing, and other equipment. Their protection was greatly improved. Those hospitals that had already discovered SARS cases had received full-body disinfection equipment, which greatly improved the safety of the medical staff.
For Li Mu, how much money he could earn was only half of the whole meaning of running a business. The other half was to make positive contributions to his employees, to his users, and to the whole society. Otherwise, if a business only cared about money, no matter how far it went, it would always emit a pungent smell of money.
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Just when the public opinion in China was transparent, the price of goods was stable, and the people's mood was greatly comforted, the attitude of the overseas media towards Hua Xia's epidemic was overall not as harmonious as that in China.
As the epidemic developed, many overseas countries discovered SARS cases one after another. At first, it was Southeast Asia, then Australia, followed by Europe and North America.
For the Western media, which liked to smear Hua Xia's international image, this was really a good opportunity to kill many birds with one stone.
They blamed the source and responsibility of the SARS outbreak on Hua Xia, believing that the virus was born and began to spread from Hua Xia. At the same time, they also believed that Hua Xia's government did not fulfill its responsibility to control the epidemic, which allowed the epidemic to spread to other countries. Even the WHO issued a global warning.
Through such reports, on the one hand, it greatly eased the pressure on the domestic government to face the epidemic. On the other hand, it also diverted the attention of the domestic people to a certain extent. At the same time, it could smear Hua Xia's image.
Therefore, very soon, the media from various countries reached a tacit understanding. One after another, they pushed all the blame to Hua Xia in their own reports, and then packaged their own country as an innocent victim. This had a very negative impact on the country's image.
Although Mother Yang used her own channels to shatter the rumors every day, after all, a powerful dragon could not suppress a snake in its own territory. It was extremely difficult for a foreign media to have a greater influence on the people of another country than the media of another country. It was the same for Mother Yang. She had the will, but not the ability.
At this critical juncture, Mother Yang personally contacted Li Mu, hoping that Makino Technology could push a credible and fact-based explanation of Hua Xia's epidemic to the world, so as to compete with the media of other countries who deliberately smeared Hua Xia's image around the world.
Li Mu agreed without hesitation.
He immediately made arrangements and made multiple preparations.
The first step was to immediately launch a multi-language version of the epidemic on YY website. The domestic epidemic broadcast and the epidemic prevention and control news must be displayed in multiple languages. Through factual data, pictures, videos, and news, the authenticity of the information must be highlighted, so that the world could see the efforts that Hua Xia was making to prevent the epidemic.
The second step was to promote this special page in a pop-up window around the world, making sure that users around the world paid attention to it.
The third step was to simultaneously push the multi-language version of the Central TV news to the world, showing the current overall situation of the epidemic in a multi-dimensional manner.
The fourth step was to obtain the actual situation of the SARS epidemic in various countries through their own foreign correspondents, foreign media channels, and Mother Yang's foreign correspondents' channels.
In some countries, there were tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people. Only one suspected case or one confirmed case was found, but the media deliberately exaggerated it and fanned the flames, causing the people of the country to fall into panic and be jittery. At the same time, they made them pee their pants in fright, and at the same time, they blamed Hua Xia in their hearts. Such a method was really too infuriating.
YY wanted to disclose the actual cases in various countries, so that the people in these countries could see the actual situation of the epidemic in their own countries. They did not want the people to overreact. The infection rate in the country was one in tens of millions or even one in a hundred million. There was no need for them to focus on this matter at all. They could do whatever they usually did.
Finally, Li Mu found Kong Lingyu and Fang Xudong, preparing to release his killer weapon around the world.
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