What was the combined growth rate in the March quarter for FMCG and consumer electronics categories on Tmall 
hat relates to your outlook for the next quarter? Thank you.
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Daniel Zhang -- Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Let me answer this first. As we said before our China retail, our Tmall will grow like 10% in the March quarter and in Tmall we have our FMCG and consumer electronics. The combined growth rate in the March quarter for these categories on Tmall was about 25%. But if you want to get a big picture of the future development, I think in my remarks, I gave you a very clear, I mean our latest, I mean indicator, which is starting from the new year, the quarter-to-date, overall speaking, our China retail marketplace growth rate is similar to those in the December quarter. So I think that's basically the big picture of where we are today, but we do hold people realize understand that there is still uncertainties about containing the pandemic. So we will closely monitor the situation, but we strongly believe that the consumption power in China is still very strong, but we will take our advantage in the digital platform to continue our leading position.
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Yeah, let me add one more point which is like, if you look at the past fiscal year, we generated $1 trillion GMV in Alibaba ecosystem, but if you look at our China retail marketplaces, the GMV we generated last fiscal year was about like RMB6.5 trillion and, if we look at the -- if we look at what happened in the March quarter, I think we should have achieved a higher GMV, if without this pandemic obviously. But we are very confident that in the new year, I think we will achieve another like a net add of like an RMB1 trillion -- at least RMB1 trillion GMV in our China retail marketplace, which is I think, still, a very strong number compared to the size of our business in China.
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Ron Lin -- Head, Investor Relations
Okay. Next question.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Gregory Zhao from Barclays. Please go ahead.
Gregory Zhao -- Barclays -- Analyst
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Thank you and congratulations on the strong performance. My question relates to cloud services. We know that internationally players like Microsoft and Google, who have already achieved a significant scale in terms of the size and the revenues continue to be able to maintain rapid growth in their revenues and even acceleration. Looking at China, however, in the cloud space Alibaba and its competitors seem to be seeing a different trend where things are somewhat slower. So I'm wondering if you could compare for us please the China market versus the international for cloud, what are the differences underlying that picture and what are the short-term bottlenecks and how would it be possible potentially to make a big leap forward in terms of accelerating revenue and profit growth in the cloud.
Daniel Zhang -- Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Thank you. Well, first I'd like to say that in the past year Alibaba Cloud Intelligence hit a very important milestone namely reaching revenue of RMB40 billion and even in the March quarter achieving 58% growth. So we don't see a slowdown at all, we think the growth is good.
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We see this growth coming from several different areas. One is the demand across all sectors of the economy to get on to the cloud. And if you look at Chinese IT spending, in the future we can expect to see more and more spending going forward as organizations get themselves on the cloud.
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The second thing I would point to is that the cloud is not just a way of providing infrastructure, infrastructure on the cloud to lower IT-related operating costs. It's also an opportunity for companies to leverage on big data and cloud-enabled computing capacity to achieve better efficiencies and drive value for the business and different kinds of algorithms and analytics will be developed in the cloud for different sectors for different verticals, different product solutions to meet those needs, and unleash new value for them. So it's not just about saving costs on IT i
hat relates to your outlook for the next quarter? Thank you.
[Foreign Speech]
Daniel Zhang -- Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Let me answer this first. As we said before our China retail, our Tmall will grow like 10% in the March quarter and in Tmall we have our FMCG and consumer electronics. The combined growth rate in the March quarter for these categories on Tmall was about 25%. But if you want to get a big picture of the future development, I think in my remarks, I gave you a very clear, I mean our latest, I mean indicator, which is starting from the new year, the quarter-to-date, overall speaking, our China retail marketplace growth rate is similar to those in the December quarter. So I think that's basically the big picture of where we are today, but we do hold people realize understand that there is still uncertainties about containing the pandemic. So we will closely monitor the situation, but we strongly believe that the consumption power in China is still very strong, but we will take our advantage in the digital platform to continue our leading position.
[Foreign Speech]
Yeah, let me add one more point which is like, if you look at the past fiscal year, we generated $1 trillion GMV in Alibaba ecosystem, but if you look at our China retail marketplaces, the GMV we generated last fiscal year was about like RMB6.5 trillion and, if we look at the -- if we look at what happened in the March quarter, I think we should have achieved a higher GMV, if without this pandemic obviously. But we are very confident that in the new year, I think we will achieve another like a net add of like an RMB1 trillion -- at least RMB1 trillion GMV in our China retail marketplace, which is I think, still, a very strong number compared to the size of our business in China.
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Ron Lin -- Head, Investor Relations
Okay. Next question.
Operator
Thank you. Next question comes from the line of Gregory Zhao from Barclays. Please go ahead.
Gregory Zhao -- Barclays -- Analyst
[Foreign Speech]
 Thank you and congratulations on the strong performance. My question relates to cloud services. We know that internationally players like Microsoft and Google, who have already achieved a significant scale in terms of the size and the revenues continue to be able to maintain rapid growth in their revenues and even acceleration. Looking at China, however, in the cloud space Alibaba and its competitors seem to be seeing a different trend where things are somewhat slower. So I'm wondering if you could compare for us please the China market versus the international for cloud, what are the differences underlying that picture and what are the short-term bottlenecks and how would it be possible potentially to make a big leap forward in terms of accelerating revenue and profit growth in the cloud.
Daniel Zhang -- Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
[Foreign Speech]
Thank you. Well, first I'd like to say that in the past year Alibaba Cloud Intelligence hit a very important milestone namely reaching revenue of RMB40 billion and even in the March quarter achieving 58% growth. So we don't see a slowdown at all, we think the growth is good.
[Foreign Speech]
We see this growth coming from several different areas. One is the demand across all sectors of the economy to get on to the cloud. And if you look at Chinese IT spending, in the future we can expect to see more and more spending going forward as organizations get themselves on the cloud.
[Foreign Speech]
The second thing I would point to is that the cloud is not just a way of providing infrastructure, infrastructure on the cloud to lower IT-related operating costs. It's also an opportunity for companies to leverage on big data and cloud-enabled computing capacity to achieve better efficiencies and drive value for the business and different kinds of algorithms and analytics will be developed in the cloud for different sectors for different verticals, different product solutions to meet those needs, and unleash new value for them. So it's not just about saving costs on IT i