With an open letter from Teacher's Day, a message goes without a hit, and various guesses follow.
With various questions, Xinhua News Agency interviewed Ma Yun.
Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency in Hangzhou (photo taken on September 18)
Retiring: For businesses and individuals,
Xinhua News Agency: There will be another year for Teacher's Day next year. As the chairman of the board of directors, in addition to doing a good job of handing over the work, what other work needs to be started, completed or handed over during the year?
Ma Yun: In the past three years, the entire company's operating mechanism and team mechanism have been handed over very smoothly. Most of my work and business in Ali has been taken over by Zhang Yong. Every month we will take a few days to take seriously. Really communicate.
At present, I am still responsible for Ali's internationalization, ecosystem construction, cultural construction and economic coordination. In the following year, I will also make a good handover.
Like Alibaba and Ant Financial, the outside world always thinks that it is a company. In fact, it is totally different. The middle of the collaborative work is now I am doing, and I will need to hand over to Zhang Yong in the future.
Xinhua News Agency: After leaving office, how much influence will you have on Alibaba's strategy? Will you come back in the future?
Ma Yun: Actually, when I stepped down as CEO (CEO), someone "predicted" I will come back someday. But it turns out that I have been retiring as CEO for nearly six years, and Ali does not need me to return to this position, and It is getting better and better.
I fully believe that Zhang Yong and his future team will do better and better.
Of course, there is no doubt that I am still a partner. The partner's job is not to develop a strategy, but to stick to Ali's vision, mission, values, strategy. As long as they don't shake, Ali will not shake.
Xinhua News Agency: 'Retreat' has many natures, there are torrents to retreat, but also to retreat, there are retreats, there are also retreats, which do you think you belong to?
Ma Yun: First of all, I think that I am not a break, but an improvement. It is a retreat: it is both the progress of the company and the progress of the individual.
If I compare Ali's career to a 4x100m race, I just ran the first. I was told that I might be afraid. I said that I have never been afraid of the future, nor have I been afraid of it today. I just know the ability. And energy, I am not the best person to lead the company in the future.
I have always said that Ali has a great mission and vision. It has to go for 102 years. But I can't go alone. Personal experience, background, knowledge structure, physical strength, and energy are limited. It is necessary to establish a system and build a culture. , training talents.
Compared with Xiaoyao Zi (Zhang Yong) and his young team, I do have something different, such as the aura of the founder, the problem of interpretation, the way of operation management. However, I also have things on them. No, such as the comprehensiveness of the knowledge structure, systemic.
I am 54 years old, from now to 70 years old, and I have 16 years to do other careers. The experience accumulated over so many years may be used to make e-commerce to be a little 'old' in the Internet, but to do other business, still young. People. Maybe I can play a new one, how wonderful!
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group, Ma Yun, in Hangzhou
Interview with Xinhua News Agency reporter (photo taken on September 18)
Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi photo
Talking about the economy: Doing our own things well
Xinhua News Agency: Ali's mission is to let 'the world has no hard-to-do business'. Then, when trade protectionism is on the rise, will the world's business be more difficult to do?
Ma Yun: This mission must be carried forward. If you have difficulties, you need a mission.
I believe that Alibaba's new generation of young people, young leaders will move forward firmly around this mission and slowly open the situation. Now it is just a setback.
I think there are still many opportunities now. Like Europe, Russia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, I am more and more confident.
Xinhua News Agency: At the beginning of last year, when you met with President Trump, he said that he would help the United States to add 1 million new jobs. Can this promise be realized now? If you see him again next time, what do you want to say?
Ma Yun: This commitment is based on the Sino-US friendly cooperation and the objective and objective premise of bilateral trade. The current situation has already destroyed the original premise, and there is no way to complete the promise. However, we will not stop our efforts and will work hard to promote China and the United States. Trade health development.
I want to say that trade between the two countries, the world's trade really needs to be perfected, but trade is not a weapon, it cannot be used for war, it should be a propeller of peace.
Xinhua News Agency: Now the domestic and international economic situation is facing many uncertain factors. How do you view this situation?
Ma Yun: Everything goes smoothly, there will be no entrepreneurs, excellent companies, entrepreneurs have experienced or even born in difficult times.
All the great companies have been created through economic cyclical disasters. Only those enterprises that have experienced such disasters are truly remarkable enterprises. Enterprises that have not experienced disasters may not be able to win even if you do a lot today. future.
'The East is not bright, the West is bright', I went to many countries and regions and found opportunities everywhere.
China is also further promoting reform and opening up to further optimize the business environment. We will face up to difficulties, and the solution is also on our own. The key is to do our own things well.
Ali has grown up to the present and has encountered many criticisms and criticisms. Many criticisms are pertinent, but some accusations are malicious. The ship is big, the wind is coming, we are 'borrowing the truth' and repairing our true In fact, taking my temper, it has exploded in the past, and it is much better now.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group Ma Yun (first from left)
Interview with Xinhua News Agency reporter in Hangzhou (photo taken on September 18)
Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Zongzhi photo
Talking about education: Let the child do his best self
Xinhua News Agency: You have been paying attention to rural education, paying attention to left-behind children, and advocating for boarding schools. What is your reason?
Ma Yun: This is the result of our investigation into the countryside. I don't think that the left-behind children in rural areas can enter the society without getting a good education, but the remote schools can't keep young teachers. What should I do? So my idea is to build townships. The boarding school, leaving the teacher in the country. Moreover, this issue has now received the attention of the education department.
Xinhua News Agency reporter: We know that you have been in the college entrance examination, and you have been tested three times. Now, some people take your experience to decompress students. What do you think?
Ma Yun: Only the high school entrance examination is not acceptable. After all, each child has different fates and abilities, but the effort still needs to be emphasized. If I give up the repetition, it is impossible to have today. If I can’t enter the university, there is no way. Today. As long as you have worked hard, you will get something even if it is very low. If you don't work hard, give up, there is nothing.
Xinhua News Agency: You said that education is complicated and more complicated than doing Ali. Is this a reason to attract you to education?
Ma Yun: One of the reasons for my education is that I have studied in a normal university, I have been a teacher, and I have always loved this profession. On the other hand, I have seen people in the world, and very bad people. Very good people, there are also very great people, I have seen many setbacks, and I understand a lot of truths. This makes me know how much education plays, let me know that education is ultimately to make yourself the best of yourself.
If I teach people to be physicists, I am sure I can't, but to teach people to be the best of themselves, I think I can contribute.
With the development of society and the advancement of technology, many things that children may learn now are useless after twenty or thirty years, but letting children do their best can benefit them for a lifetime.