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t the company is making to society by providing these jobs. Of course, it's also something that Alibaba very much needs. We need to continue to stay fresh. We need to take on that fresh blood, if you like, this is refreshing the metabolism of our company, which is indeed a young Internet company, but one with some considerable history that needs this kind of ongoing refreshment.
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[Foreign language]
Unknown speaker
And then, Alicia, the other part of your question had to do with new investment opportunities in emerging new growth areas. The fact is that there will always be an infinite number of new technologies and new industries on the rise but for any company and for Alibaba, we need to view those opportunities through the lens of our core strategy.
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[Foreign language]
Unknown speaker
New energy is, of course, a huge opportunity. And for Alibaba, we seek to leverage that opportunity mainly in the context of our cloud business because as I've talked about, in the Sunrise industries, new and emerging industries, it's possible to leapfrog to a higher level faster jumping past the previous development stages. You can quickly adopt these new technologies and fresh approaches. The same is also true of autonomous vehicles and the metaverse as well, linking that to our business, consumption and logistics.
So the metaverse in relation to consumption and autonomous vehicles in relation to our logistics, New energy is very much linked to our cloud business. So we're finding opportunities to leverage the emergence of these new technologies and these new industries in our existing businesses, viewing it through those lenses. The other piece is, of course, globalization. I've often talked about our three core strategies of consumption, cloud and globalization to horizontal and one vertical.
So we're looking at how we can leverage these technologies in terms of commerce, consumption and cloud, but also looking at whether some kinds of know-how from China can be taken into global markets or whether in global markets, there are opportunities that can be pursued there. But those continue to be our three core strategies.
Rob Lin -- Head of Investor Relations
OK. Well, thank you, everyone, for joining our conference call today. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the Alibaba IR team. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator signoff]
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Call participants:
Rob Lin -- Head of Investor Relations
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Toby Xu -- Chief Financial Officer
Ronald Keung -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Unknown speaker
Thomas Chong -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Alex Yao -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
John Choi -- Daiwa Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yang Bai -- CICC -- Analyst
Alicia Yap -- Citi -- Analyst
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t the company is making to society by providing these jobs. Of course, it's also something that Alibaba very much needs. We need to continue to stay fresh. We need to take on that fresh blood, if you like, this is refreshing the metabolism of our company, which is indeed a young Internet company, but one with some considerable history that needs this kind of ongoing refreshment.
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[Foreign language]
Unknown speaker
And then, Alicia, the other part of your question had to do with new investment opportunities in emerging new growth areas. The fact is that there will always be an infinite number of new technologies and new industries on the rise but for any company and for Alibaba, we need to view those opportunities through the lens of our core strategy.
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[Foreign language]
Unknown speaker
New energy is, of course, a huge opportunity. And for Alibaba, we seek to leverage that opportunity mainly in the context of our cloud business because as I've talked about, in the Sunrise industries, new and emerging industries, it's possible to leapfrog to a higher level faster jumping past the previous development stages. You can quickly adopt these new technologies and fresh approaches. The same is also true of autonomous vehicles and the metaverse as well, linking that to our business, consumption and logistics.
So the metaverse in relation to consumption and autonomous vehicles in relation to our logistics, New energy is very much linked to our cloud business. So we're finding opportunities to leverage the emergence of these new technologies and these new industries in our existing businesses, viewing it through those lenses. The other piece is, of course, globalization. I've often talked about our three core strategies of consumption, cloud and globalization to horizontal and one vertical.
So we're looking at how we can leverage these technologies in terms of commerce, consumption and cloud, but also looking at whether some kinds of know-how from China can be taken into global markets or whether in global markets, there are opportunities that can be pursued there. But those continue to be our three core strategies.
Rob Lin -- Head of Investor Relations
OK. Well, thank you, everyone, for joining our conference call today. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the Alibaba IR team. Thank you.
Operator
[Operator signoff]
Duration: 0 minutes
Call participants:
Rob Lin -- Head of Investor Relations
Daniel Zhang -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Toby Xu -- Chief Financial Officer
 Ronald Keung -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Unknown speaker
Thomas Chong -- Jefferies -- Analyst
Alex Yao -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
John Choi -- Daiwa Capital Markets -- Analyst
Yang Bai -- CICC -- Analyst
Alicia Yap -- Citi -- Analyst
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