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Ma eyes more investment in India, to work with tech firms
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ALIBABA founder Jack Ma, China’s wealthiest man, said yesterday that he plans to invest more funds in India and believes the Internet can transform the country’s future.
Ma, whose Alibaba controls 80 percent of e-commerce in China, was speaking to a business audience on his first visit to India, two months after his record initial public offering raised US$25 billion.
“We will invest more in India, work with Indian entrepreneurs and technology companies,” Ma promised in New Delhi, without naming any figures.
He said his Hangzhou-based Alibaba already has on its site a large number of small Indian businesses selling goods — from spices and chocolates to tea — to more than 400,000 Chinese customers.
He forecast more Indian goods would be sold on his Chinese site as his exchanges with India picked up.
The 50-year-old executive chairman of Alibaba said there was huge scope for “mutual engagement” in technology between India and China and that it could “change (the) lives” of many small businesses.
“I was a teacher earlier and the Internet changed my life. Right now is a wonderful time for businesses in India and China to work together,” he said.
Ma’s entourage was keeping a tight lip on the businessman’s itinerary.
The executive “will be participating in a number of meetings with local businesses,” said a spokeswoman, declining to disclose more.
The Economic Times newspaper reported that Ma’s delegation included 99 business people.
Ma, China’s richest individual with a net worth of nearly US$30 billion, was set to meet several Indian entrepreneurs.
Alibaba already has a small presence in the Indian market with a business-to-business startup launched in 2010, but analysts expect it to expand in India’s e-commerce market, possibly through online marketplace Snapdeal.
Japan’s SoftBank, the largest shareholder in Alibaba with one third, became last month the biggest single investor in the Indian online retail firm.
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