阿里巴巴宣佈在俄羅斯成立合資企業

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is setting up a $2 billion joint venture with billionaire Alisher Usmanov's internet services firm Group Ltd. to strengthen the Chinese company's foothold in Russian e-commerce.

近日，阿里巴巴集團與億萬富翁阿利舍爾·烏斯馬諾夫旗下的互聯網公司簽署了一份價值20億美元的協議，以鞏固這家中國公司在俄羅斯電商領域的地位。

Asia's most valuable company signed an accord last Tuesday with to merge their online marketplaces in the nation of more than 140 million people.

上週二，這家亞洲市值最高的公司與簽署了一份協議，整合了這個國家超過1.4億人口的線上市場。

The deal is backed by the Kremlin through the Russian Direct Investment Fund and the local investors will collectively control the new business. 's global depository receipts traded in London jumped as much as 12 percent.

克里姆林宮將通過俄羅斯直接投資基金支持這項協議，而當地投資方將共同控制這項新業務。受該消息提振，集團在倫敦上市的全球存托股票價格當天跳漲12%。

The combined company will be better able to compete with local rivals Wildberries and Yandex. Alibaba's Russian unit AliExpress mostly sells goods imported from China and hasn't had to worry about competition from Inc. because the U.S. behemoth has little presence in the country.

重組後的公司將更有實力與俄羅斯本土競爭對手Wildberries和Yandex爭奪市場。阿里巴巴旗下的俄羅斯子公司全球速賣通主要銷售從中國進口的商品，而且不必擔心來自亞馬遜的競爭，因爲亞馬遜作爲美國商業巨頭在俄羅斯並沒什麼市場。

"A big part of what we've been able to develop so far in Russia has been our cross-border business," Alibaba President Mike Evans told reporters. "But the future, which will require the presence of our partners at this table, will involve building a much bigger local business."

阿里巴巴總裁邁克·埃文斯接受採訪時表示：“目前阿里巴巴在俄發展迅速的一大部分都是跨境電商業務，但在未來，阿里需要藉助合作伙伴的力量建立一個本土影響力更大、業務範圍更廣泛的企業。”

Ma, who started in 1999 with 17 co-founders, announced plans to step back from the Chinese e-commerce titan last week.

馬雲在1999年和17位創始人共同創立了阿里巴巴，並在上週宣佈了從這家中國電商巨頭退休的計劃。

His company, which is pushing into overseas markets from Southeast Asia to Russia, last year saw daily package deliveries reach 55 million.

他的公司正在向包括東南亞到俄羅斯的海外市場進軍，去年的日快遞量達到5500萬件。