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  • 2 - An Ecosystem for Private Enterprise Growth

  • from Part I - Different Types of Chinese Corporate Ecosystem
  • Colin S. C. Hawes, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Book:
    The Chinese Corporate Ecosystem
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 49-85

  • Summary

    This chapter traces the incredibly rapid expansion of the platform e-commerce and financial conglomerates Alibaba and Ant Group. It shows how they took advantage of government fragmentation and dependence on the private economy to attract huge foreign investment, using the variable interest entity (VIE) legal loophole, and then to diversify into payment services (Alipay) and finance in conjunction with state financial institutions, attracting hundreds of millions of customers and tens of millions of SME merchants. The chapter analyzes the key struggles between this Alibaba/Ant "corporate ecosystem" and government regulators seeking to protect consumers, finding that reports of a reining in of Chinese private firms by the Chinese Communist Party are premature.