Beijing.- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba today announced that it will donate 2 million masks, 400,000 kits for coronavirus testing and 104 respirators to 24 Latin American countries to assist them in the fight against the pandemic. Former Alibaba executive president and founder Jack Ma announced this donation on his Twitter social network account, on which the company has not yet given further details.
“A world, a struggle. We will donate emergency items – 2 million masks, 400 thousand test kits, 104 respirators – to 24 Latin American countries,” the entrepreneur said. Ma explained that among the Latin American countries included in the donation will be Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Peru.Also, she said that her company will take care of the transport from China to America: “We will hurry!. WE ARE ONE!” he said. The Alibaba group also announced last Friday that it would donate 500,000 masks to Spain to help fight the spread of coronavirus. Yesterday, Saturday, he also reported a donation of 1.8 million masks, 210 thousand test kits and 36,000 protective suits, as well as respirators and thermometers, to several Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Banglasdesh, Cambodia, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Ma, China’s richest man, according to Forbes magazine, left Alibaba’s executive presidency on September 10, twenty years after founding it. The employer and formerly teacher had made public his decision a year ago, when he assured that, “due to physical limits on one’s ability and energy, no one can assume the responsibilities of president and CEO forever,” so he bet on allow “younger and more talented” people to lead the firm. However, Ma remains on the group’s board of directors until next year. Last year, the billionaire said he still has “many dreams to pursue.” Those who know me know that I don’t like to sit and do nothing. I plan to continue my role as a founding partner at Alibaba Partnership and contribute to the work of the association,” he said.
Ma is a partner of the Alibaba Partnership, which currently consists of 36 partners who have the right to appoint most directors to the group’s board of directors.
“The only thing I can promise everyone is this: Alibaba was never about Jack Ma, but Jack Ma will always belong to Alibaba,” he said then.
