Recently, a netizen ran into Ma Yun in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. In the photo, he was wearing cloth shoes, playing with his mobile phone and drinking Coke. Today, photos of Jack Ma and his family of foreign friends were also posted on social platforms.
A Alibaba insider confirmed the news of Jack Ma in Australia to the first financial reporter, but did not disclose his itinerary.
In Australia, this family of foreign friends has continued their friendship with Ma Yun for more than 40 years. They are the Morley family who took a photo with middle school student Ma Yun by the West Lake 43 years ago.
In the summer of 1980, Jack Ma, who was looking for foreigners to practice English by the West Lake, met the Morley family from Australia by chance. Ma Yun was 15 years old that year and was still a middle school student. Since then, Ma Yun and the Morley family have become pen pals, and the two sides often correspond. When old Molly wrote back to Ma Yun, he often corrected Ma Yun's grammatical mistakes.
In 1985, Molly Sr. encouraged Ma Yun in a letter and invited him to travel to Australia.
Ma Yun once recalled that although he applied for a visa seven times before finally making his trip to Newcastle, it was the time he spent in Australia when he was young. The local culture, scenery and people completely changed his view of the world. After
returned to Hangzhou, the two sides not only maintained communication, but the old Molly also provided support for Jack Ma who was studying at Hangzhou Teachers College. In more than two years, the Morley family sent a total of 200 Australian dollars to Jack Ma.
After more than ten years, Ma Yun went to Australia again in 2017, and repaid Ken for his guidance and support with a scholarship program of 26 million Australian dollars (approximately 20 million U.S. dollars). At that time, the University of Newcastle in Australia announced that Jack Ma, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba, set up the "ma & morley scholarship program" (the ma & morley scholarship program) with 26 million Australian dollars through the Jack Ma Charity Foundation. This is the largest donation ever received by Newcastle University.
Ma Yun said that this scholarship will be used to "support those who want to see the world for themselves, experience it, and think about it with their own heads." Days, are crucial in my life. Without those 29 days, I would never have thought the way I do today." It is said that in Ma Yun's home and office, there has always been a place for a photo of him and the Molly family.
currently does not know the specific itinerary of Jack Ma's trip to Australia. However, according to public reports, in the past year, Jack Ma has visited many agricultural research institutions in the Netherlands, Japan, Southeast Asia and Thailand to investigate agricultural and fishery technologies. The focus of its next work.
