Jack Ma (R), founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, and President-elect Donald Trump talked about creating 1 million US jobs at Trump Tower.
Donald Trump met with the founder of China’s » bigly » online retailer on Monday to talk jobs and small businesses.
Jack Ma, the chairman of Alibaba Group, visited the president-elect at Trump Tower in Manhattan to discuss the Chinese company’s plans to create 1 million jobs in the US over the next five years. With a stronghold on China’s e-retail market, Alibaba has plans to expand its presence in the US.
Ma told reporters at the hotel’s lobby the two focused on small businesses, especially in the agriculture industry. The Alibaba Group tweeted after the meeting that it wants to connect US companies and farmers to more than 300 million middle-class customers in China.
