外媒：馬雲即將退休，投身教育慈善事業！
It is reported that, Jack Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group is retiring.
據報道，中國電商巨頭阿里巴巴集團的聯合創始人兼執行董事長馬雲即將退休。
Mr Ma said he plans to step down as executive chairman on Monday to pursue philanthropy in education. He will remain on Alibaba’s board of directors.
馬先生表示，他打算週一辭去執行董事長的職務，投身教育慈善事業。他依然會是阿里巴巴集團的董事。
In an interview, Mr Ma said he will be dedicating more of his time to philanthropy with the creation of a foundation in his own name focused on education, following in the footsteps of Bill Gates.
在一次採訪中，馬先生表示，他將效仿比爾·蓋茨，把更多的時間用於慈善事業，以他個人的名義創辦一個教育基金會。
“There’s a lot of things I can learn from Bill Gates. I can never be as rich, but one thing I can do better is to retire earlier,” Mr Ma said in the interview. “I think some day, and soon, I'll go back to teaching. This is something I think I can do much better than being CEO of Alibaba.
“我可以向比爾·蓋茨學習的東西有很多。我不會像他那樣富有，但我可以比他做的好的一件事就是我可以更早退休，”馬先生在採訪中說道。“我認爲，某一天，很快，我會回去繼續教學。我認爲，與擔任阿里巴巴的總裁相比，我在教學方面會做得更好。”
“I've prepared a Jack Ma Foundation,” he added. “All these things that I’ve been preparing for 10 years.”
“我準備成立馬雲基金會，”他補充道。“這一切我準備了10年了。”
Alibaba went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 and has a market value of approximately $421bn (£325bn).
2014年阿里巴巴在紐約證券交易所上市，其市值約4210億美元（3250億英鎊）。
As of this year, it has the ninth highest global brand value and is the world’s biggest e-commerce company by total value of merchandise sold across its platforms.
在這一年，阿里巴巴的品牌價值排名全球第九位，其平臺銷售的商品總值在全球的電商公司中排名第一。
The company broke records in 2015 when its online sales and profits surpassed all US retailers, including Walmart, eBay and Amazon combined.
該公司於2015年打破紀錄，其線上銷售額和利潤超過了沃爾瑪、易貝及亞馬遜等所有的美國零售商。
In 2017, it orchestrated China Singles Day, a popular holiday among young Chinese people that celebrates their pride in being single on 11 November each year, into the worlds biggest online and offline shopping day, with its own sales reaching over $25.4bn (£19bn) in just 24 hours.
每年的11月11日是中國的光棍節，這是中國年輕人慶祝單身自豪感的節日，在中國很受歡迎。2017年阿里巴巴精心策劃了光棍節活動，使其成爲世界最大的線上線下購物節，僅僅在24小時內其自身的銷售額就超過了254億美元（190億英鎊）。
（翻譯：Dlacus）
