On the afternoon of January 23, 2018, Alibaba Group released data related to social responsibility in 2017. In the previous year, Alibaba paid more than 100 million yuan in taxes per day, driving upstream and downstream tax payments of more than 290 billion yuan and creating 33 million jobs.

Data shows that in 2017, Alibaba Group paid 36.6 billion yuan in taxes, an increase of more than 50% compared to 23.8 billion yuan in 2016, and doubled from 17.8 billion yuan in 2015.

Alibaba officials revealed that the tax value is mainly composed of two parts: one part is the tax growth of upstream manufacturing brought by Tmall and Taobao, which is about 260 billion yuan. The other part is the tax growth of downstream express delivery industry driven by the packages of Tmall and Taobao, which is about 30 billion yuan.