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Alibaba's Ma meets Trump, pledges to bring one million jobs to US

Chinese giant plans to bring one million small US businesses onto its online platform

Published Tue, Jan 10, 2017 · 09:50 PM

    Beijing

    ALIBABA executive chairman Jack Ma met US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday and laid out the Chinese e-commerce giant's new plan to bring one million small US businesses onto its platform to sell to Chinese consumers over the next five years, an Alibaba spokesman said.

    Alibaba Group Holding Ltd expects the initiative to create one million US jobs as each company adds a position, company spokesman Bob Christie said in a phone call.

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