超越沃爾瑪:阿里巴巴成全球最大零售體
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding said on last Wednesday that it has officially become the world's largest retail platform, with its total online trading volume in the fiscal year ending in March surpassing Wal-Mart's annual sales.
我國電商巨頭阿里巴巴集團上週三宣佈，截至今年3月31日的財年裏，其在線交易總額超過沃爾瑪的年度銷售額，正式成爲全球最大的零售平臺。The Hangzhou-headquartered e-commerce giant didn't reveal the total gross merchandize volume (GMV) in the fiscal year ending in March. But it announced on March 21 that its China retail marketplace platforms have already surpassed the milestone of 3 trillion yuan ($475.89 billion) in GMV in the latest fiscal year.
這家總部位於杭州的電商巨頭並沒有透露截止到3月份全年交易額的具體數字，但是該公司在今年3月21日宣佈，在最近一財年內，阿里巴巴中國地區的交易額已經突破了3萬億大關（約合4758.9億美元）Alibaba's fiscal year started on April 1 and ends on March 31. Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted revenue of $482.1 billion for its fiscal year ending Jan 31.
阿里巴巴財年計算開始於4月1日，截止到次年的3月31日，沃爾瑪集團在今年1月31日時公佈了最近一財年收益數字，爲4821億美元。
Alibaba said in a statement that the record-breaking GMV shows that the world's largest retail marketplace has shifted from offline to online. "We used 13 years to demonstrate the power of a different business model compared with brick-and-mortar retailers," the statement said.
阿里巴巴集團在一份聲明中表示，交易額的突破已經表明：世界零售市場已經由線下實體零售發展到線上。該聲明稱：“我們用13年的時間證明了這種區別於傳統模式的巨大潛力。”According to Alibaba, its online trading volume accounted for 10% of the overall retail volume in China and it directly generated 15m jobs.
阿里巴巴稱，其在線交易額佔中國零售總額的10%，直接創造的就業崗位達1500萬個。Alibaba has already set a goal to achieve an annual trading volume of RMB6 trillion by 2020 and help 90% of its retailers increase their operational efficiency.
阿里巴巴制定的下一個目標是到2020年，其年度交易總額達6萬億人民幣，並幫助其90%的零售商提高經營效率。"In 2024, we want to be a business platform serving 2 billion consumers and tens of millions of enterprises at home and abroad," Zhang Yong, chief executive officer of Alibaba, said a recent press event. "The company will strive to combine cloud computing and big data technologies with the internet and the Internet of Things, as well as consumer terminal equipment, to spur its development."
阿里巴巴首席執行官張勇在最近的一次新聞發佈會上表示：“在2024年，我們將成爲一個服務20億消費者以及國內外上百萬家企業的平臺。公司將努力實現雲計算、互聯網大數據技術與包括消費者終端設備在內的互聯網相關產品的結合，以促進其更快的發展。”
