it House reported on February 19 that the retired founder of Alibaba seldom appears in the public eye, but recently a netizen ran into Jack Ma in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Photos of the family of foreign friends also leaked online. The family of
it learned that this family of foreign friends is the Morley family who took a photo with middle school student Jack Ma by the West Lake 43 years ago. In the summer of 1980, Ma Yun, who was looking for foreigners to practice English by the West Lake, met the Morley family from Australia by chance. Ma Yun was only 15 years old at that time. Molly was about the same age and became acquainted quickly. After West Lake parted, Ma Yun and Molly's family became pen pals, and the two sides often corresponded. When Ma Yun wrote back to Ma Yun, the old Molly often corrected Ma Yun's grammatical mistakes.
In 1985, Morley Sr. invited Ma Yun to travel to Australia. Although Ma Yun applied for a visa 7 times before successfully going to Newcastle, this experience completely changed his view of the world. After
returned to Hangzhou, the two parties not only maintained correspondence, but Molly also provided support for Ma Yun, who was studying at Hangzhou Teachers College, and sent a total of 200 Australian dollars in two years. More than ten years later, Jack Ma repaid the guidance and support given to him by Morley Sr. in 2017 with a scholarship program of 26 million Australian 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 aims to support those who want to explore the world and think about the world with their own heads.
It is reported that in Ma Yun's home and office, there are always pictures of him and the Molly family.
