This week,CIT,a lender to small and medium sized businesses, sought bankruptcy protection from its creditors so it can reorganize.

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And later when we set up Alibaba, after 5 years of study we realized this: that small and medium sized companies are the group of companies who really need e-commerce.

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There are somewhere between 20 and 30 million small and medium sized companies in this country.

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Critics say this will penalise small and medium-sized manufacturing firms.

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