Alibaba's Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty

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Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped kickstart China's online retail boom, steps down as chairman of the world's biggest e-commerce company

This file photo taken on January 10, 2017 shows Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, arriving at Trump Tower for meetings with then President-elect Donald Trump in New York.

He will stay on as a member of the Alibaba Partnership, a 36-member group with the right to nominate a majority of the company's board of directors. The company has shifted focus to serving China's growing consumer market and expanded into online banking, entertainment and cloud computing. Domestic businesses accounted for 66 percent of its $16.7 billion in revenue in the quarter ending in June.Growth in online sales decelerated to 17.8 percent in the first half of 2019 amid slowing Chinese economic growth, down from 2018's full-year rate of 23.9 percent.

Alibaba's deputy chairman, Joe Tsai, told reporters in May the company is "on the right side" of issues in US-Chinese trade talks. Tsai said Alibaba stands to benefit from Beijing's promise to increase imports and a growing consumer market. At an annual Alibaba employee festival in Hanzhou, he has sung pop songs in costumes that have included blond wigs and leather jackets.

 

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kasehsaulmouk And his boss will take over. He Just pion. Ma shien seng, You truly make some lokal artist here broke, with online shop 1 gate 1 sistem without tax and exlusive gate.

People :You need to be smart to become a billionaire. Jack ma:Hold my brain.

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The Communist chief is his boss.

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