Ma Yun, Chairperson of the company Alibaba, becomes one of the richest men in China. Here are some stories about him on the wto success.

    Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After sfor “beer”, he saw that no answers came up about China. Then he looked for “China” and still saw no answers. So he dto set up (创建) a Chinese website.

    Ma said he was refused (拒绝) many times in his life. In the beginning, he fthe College Entrance Examination (高考) in China three times and fcompanies offered him jobs, even one at KFC.

    It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager bof limited resources(有限的资源). However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides ahis hometown. Ma said that topened up a new world for him because what they said and did was so different from what he learned at school and at home.

    Ma's his a person named Forest Gump who never gives up (放弃). Whe made a speech about his success at Davos (达沃斯论坛), Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get”.