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| Additionally, we recorded healthy growth of our public cloud revenue from external customers |
| Notably, the order volume exited double-digit year-over-year growth during the second half of the quarter |
| Revenue from International Commerce Retail Business increased by 56% to RMB23.3 billion, the increase in revenue was primarily due to solid revenue growth from AliExpress, especially Choice business and Trendyol |
| During the quarter, the execution of our user-first and competitive pricing strategies in Taobao and Tmall Group, TTG was effective resulting in healthy year-over-year GMV growth as the number of active buyers and order volume showed a robust increase |
| We see very clearly that Choice is delivering a better user experience and resulting in much better user retention than the previous model |
| It's a business that has very strong scale effects |
| These structural adjustments are showing results and Alibaba Cloud's overall profitability capability continues to improve |
| We've also upgraded Alibaba Cloud's sales operations establishing different sales and service systems to serve different types and sizes of customers by improving our customer coverage and service capabilities, we will enhance our growth rate |
| Overall, we have seen a very rapid order and revenue growth of our AIDC cross-border e-commerce business over the last few quarters |
| So as I say, that's still in early testing, but we see excellent potential there |
| Cainiao continued to develop its global smart logistics network with cross-border logistics fulfillment solutions contributing to 24% and year-over-year revenue growth as well as realizing strong synergies with the cross-border e-commerce business |
| Local services group revenue in December quarter grew 13% to RMB15.2 billion, driven by healthy growth of Ele.me and rapid growth of Amap |
| This initiative is still in the early testing phase, but we see very strong potential to leverage AI to significantly enhance search conversion and add monetization |
| Certainly, I see very strong potential for greater synergy between Alibaba Cloud and the Taobao Tmall Group, especially driven by AI |
| I'm confident that by focusing on delivering the incredible Taobao or universal Taobao experience, offering quality products at attractive prices with great service meeting the different needs of different consumer segments, TTG will earn users' trust and return to growth |
| This will further strengthen our product supply advantages to better address new consumption trends and demands |
| So in terms of the local business, over the past several quarters, we've seen very rapid improvement in efficiency and rapid narrowing of losses, and we expect that to continue |
| The continuous improvement in our adjusted EBITDA reflected improving product mix through our focus on public cloud and operating efficiency, but enhance the profitability of Cloud business gives us confidence to invest in technology and customers to strengthen our public cloud leadership in the future |
| This quarter, all of AIDC's retail platforms achieved growth resulting in international digital commerce overall revenues growing at a rapid rate of 44% year-over-year |
| Revenue from our DME group was RMB5 billion, an increase of 18%, primarily driven by the strong revenue growth of off-line entertainment businesses |
| We're making very good progress on non-core asset sales |
| Through the above investments, we will enhance our comprehensive capabilities to offer quality products at attractive prices with great service |
| We believe that improving the platform's overall shopping experience and service quality will lead to increased purchase frequency and materially improve the efficiency of user growth |
| However, the improvement on the ROIC doesn't conflict with the investment we are going to make because making investments exactly is for the growth and for the future return of this growth eventually will also help to improve the ROIC |
| With the comprehensive capability planning -- building plan for 2024, we're confident that TTG will return to growth |
| So that's why during the last quarter's earnings call, we committed that we will improve our ROIC from single digit to double digit in the next couple of years |
| Our Board of Directors has approved upsize of the share repurchase program by another $25 billion through March 2027, upsizing our share repurchase program demonstrates our strong confidence in our business fundamentals and cash flow generation capability |
| Total orders grew by 24% year-on-year driven by strong growth across all major retail platforms |
| So that's why this is a sort of demonstrates the early success of the execution of our strategy |
| Our three major growth drivers are; first, enhanced consumer experience as a result of our business model and supply chain services upgrade; second, product and technology innovation; and third, our targeted expansion in priority markets |
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| Revenue from all other segments decreased 7% to RMB47 billion, mainly due to the decrease in revenue from Sun Art |
| The second thing that contributed to the losses this quarter was significant spending on marketing and some major promotions that we did |
| Our non-GAAP net income was RMB48 billion, a decrease of 4% |
| AIDC's adjusted EBITA was a loss of RMB3.1 billion |
| Our GAAP net income was RMB10.7 billion, a decrease of RMB35 billion |
| Free cash flow this quarter was RMB56.5 billion, a decrease of 31% |
| So going forward, how do we really evaluate the economics as well as the competitive landscape? Toby Xu Well, the loss in AIDC business this quarter really came from three different areas |
| Adjusted EBITDA from all other segments was a loss of RMB3.2 billion compared to a loss of RMB1.7 billion in the same quarter last year primarily due to increase in year-over-year loss from Sun Art due to scale down of certain of businesses |
| Adjusted EBITA was a loss of RMB517 million compared to a loss of RMB391 million same quarter last year |
| Cainiao adjusted EBITDA was RMB961 million compared to a loss of RMB12 million in the same quarter last year |
| Losses increased primarily due to the increased losses of Youku |
| For this quarter, actually, if you look at the overall take rate drop a little bit, as I was explaining in my script, actually, this chart was because of the mix shift, as we can see consumers appetite for relative price-competitive products grow |
| Losses increased primarily because of the increase in investment in AliExpress Choice, Trendyol's international business partly offset by improvement in monetization across all major platforms |
| The overall take rate decreased slightly year-over-year mainly because of the increase in GMV came from Taobao merchants |
| The decrease in free cash flow was attributed to increased CapEx in several onetime factors, including timing of income tax payments and working capital changes related to several of our businesses |
| And secondly, actually, we are sort of like very underleveraged |
| But it seems like this quarter, the international unit basically saw a very big widened loss to around RMB3 billion, so just wondering, how do we anticipate the investment pace onwards considering certain of the key kind of growing markets such as AliExpress Choice, the hybrid model as well as the Trendyol seems to be still in the very early development stage |
| Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our current expectations |
| I'm wondering if my understanding is correct |
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