Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Company, was born in Hangzhou in October 1964. Graduated from the Foreign Languages ??Department of Hangzhou Normal University in June 1988. The "China Yellow Pages" website, founded in April 1995, was the first online Chinese business information site and the earliest Internet business model for enterprise services in China. At the end of 1997, Jack Ma and his team developed a series of national websites in Beijing, such as the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Online Chinese Commodities Trading Market. In early 1999, Jack Ma returned to Hangzhou to start a business with 500,000 yuan to develop the Alibaba website (www.alibaba.com). In 2001, in order for Chinese enterprises to "join the WTO" and better explore the international market, Alibaba launched the "Chinese Supplier" service to recommend China's outstanding export companies and products to the world, and also launched the "Alibaba Recommended Buyer" service. , formed alliances with international purchasing groups such as Wal-Mart, General Electric, Markant and Sobond to conduct cross-border procurement online; in the same year, Alibaba joined forces with the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Development Research Center of the State Council and other departments to launch an initiative to set up in China "9·19" Integrity Day, and launched the world's first enterprise-level online credit management product "Integrity Pass"; in the same year, Harvard Business School disclosed the MBA case of Alibaba's business management practices in China, and once again presented Alibaba's transformation management Practices were selected as case studies. In September, the authoritative American financial magazine "Forbes" once again selected Alibaba as one of the best B2B sites in the world, and it was the only Chinese website selected. In October 2000, the American Asia Business Association selected Jack Ma as this year's "Business Leader" in recognition of his contribution to innovative business models and helping companies from various countries enter the international market and achieve globalization.