英闻天下——121 Ma Yun Resigns as CEO of Alibaba

 　　Ma Yun, founder¹ of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced that he would be stepping down from the position of CEO in May.

 

　　Instead, Ma will concentrate on his work as chairman of the Alibaba Group board of directors to help the new CEO cultivate talents and to develop the group's public welfare.

 

　　Alibaba Group just completed the biggest organizational structure change since its establishment in 1999.

 

　　Ma suggested his successor is likely to come from the group's mature management team.

 

　　Moreover, he hopes to take up the post of the first headmaster of Taobao University.

 

　　As of December last year, the total value of transactions conducted on Taobao Marketplace and Tmall, the two flagship online retail² platforms owned by the Group, exceeded 1 trillion yuan, or roughly $160 billion.

 

　　For more on the story, we now cross live to Ben Cavender, Associate principal at China Market Research in Shanghai

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 retail   

v./n.零售；adv.以零售价格

参考例句：

• In this shop they retail tobacco and sweets.这家铺子零售香烟和糖果。
• These shoes retail at 10 yuan a pair.这些鞋子零卖10元一双。