Alibaba's billionaire founder, Jack Ma, urged Australian businesses to share their wares with the world at the launch of its Australian headquarters in Melbourne.
A day after announcing a $26 million scholarship program with the University of Newcastle, Mr Ma said Alibaba Group was here to make it easy "to do business anywhere" for Australian and New Zealand businesses.
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Australia has just signed a deal with the worldâs biggest and fastest growing e-commerce site in the world.
"With a local office and expert team, Alibaba Group will help Australian and New Zealand businesses share their world-famous products with billions of customers around the world," Mr Ma said on Saturday.
"Whether a large company with existing links to China or a mum-and-dad run exporter operating out of a garage, Alibaba Group is here to make it easy to do business.
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"Australia will always have a special place in my heart and that's why I'm so pleased to come back to contribute to supporting Australian businesses to create opportunities and jobs in a country that has meant so much for me."
The groups' Australian and New Zealand managing director, Maggie Zhou, said a bricks and mortar headquarters for Alibaba was a "key step" in ensuring Australian businesses had the support and information they needed to succeed in China and the rest of the world.
"Longer term, Alibaba's vision for the Australia New Zealand region is to build the entire operating infrastructure needed to enable local businesses to expand globally," Ms Zhou said.
"Alibaba Cloud launched its services in and opened its data centre in late 2016 and there are not more than 1000 bricks and mortar stores accepting Alipay across Australia and New Zealand.
"This is just the start with further growth planned in the areas of cloud payments, digital entertainment and logistics."
Mr Ma also announced a memorandum of understanding with Australia Post, which he said would strengthen trade opportunities for Australian businesses selling to the millions of shoppers on the Alibaba platform.
The agreement is based on a collaboration between Alibaba and Australia Post to develop the first Australian marketplace in the Lazada e-commerce network in South East Asia.
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