Jack Ma, the co-founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group is retiring, The New York Times has reported.

據《紐約時報》報道，中國電商巨頭阿裡巴巴集團的聯合創始人之一馬雲即将退休。

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.

馬雲稱他計劃于周一卸任，之後将專注于慈善事業。他将仍舊保留阿裡巴巴董事會的職位。

“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.

馬雲在接受采訪時說：“我從比爾蓋茨的身上學到很多。我的财富已經不可能超過他了，但有一件事我可以超過他，那就是比他早退休。我預想着某一天，或者就在不久的未來，我會重回教師崗位。做一些比在阿裡巴巴當CEO更有價值的事情。”

Alibaba's empire today encompasses online selling and banking, film production and cloud computing. It also holds stakes in Chinese social media site Weibo and owns English-language newspaper The South China Morning Post.

如今阿裡巴巴集團不但涉及銷售業、銀行業、影視行業、雲計算産業，它在社交媒體微博中也占有一定的股份，還坐擁一家英文報刊《南華早報》。

In an interview with Bloomberg TV, 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.

在一次接受彭博社的訪談中，馬雲稱自己接下來将會把絕大多數的時間用在慈善事業上，他将步比爾蓋茨的後塵，用自己的名字創立一個緻力于教育的基金會。

“I've prepared a Jack Ma Foundation,” he added. “All these things that I've been preparing for 10 years.”

他說：“我已經預備建立一個‘馬雲基金會’為此我已經籌劃10年了。”

Mr Ma was born in September 1964 in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province. It was here that he attended Hangzhou Normal University and graduated in 1988 with a BA in English before creating the Alibaba Group, backed by $60,000 (£46,000) from 18 co-founders.

馬雲于1964年出生在浙江省省會杭州。後就讀于杭州師範大學，1988年本科畢業後與18位合夥人一起創立了阿裡巴巴集團。

The company broke records in 2015 when its online sales and profits surpassed all US retailers, including Walmart, eBay and Amazon combined.

2015年阿裡巴巴在線銷售的利潤超過了包括沃爾瑪，易購以及亞馬遜加起來在内的所有美國零售商所獲的利潤。”

（翻譯：進擊的Meredith）

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