Alibaba founder Jack Ma urges young people to help solve both Hong Kong and global problems
Head of world’s largest e-commerce platform says at HKU ceremony that education in future should teach what machines cannot, such as creativity and imagination
Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, urged young people in the city to look beyond Hong Kong and think about how to solve global problems as he received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong on Friday.
“Today, people say Hong Kong has a lot of problems. Any city has problems,” he said.
“People say Hong Kong’s young people have problems. Any young person has problems.”
He said he was confident Hong Kong would “solve these problems”.
Ma said that he had met Lam five times during the past six months, and that they had discussed young people, innovation and the city’s future.
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He said the world’s future would be shaped by new technology, bringing challenges in almost all aspects of people’s lives, especially in education.