阿里巴巴上季營(yíng)收增長(zhǎng)超預(yù)期

China’s shoppers defiedthe country’s economicslowdown, boosting ecommerce group Alibaba to abetterthan expected 39 per cent year-on-year rise inrevenues for the past quarter.

中國(guó)購(gòu)物者沒(méi)有受到國(guó)內(nèi)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)放緩的影響，助推電子商務(wù)集團(tuán)阿里巴巴(Alibaba)在上個(gè)季度實(shí)現(xiàn)好于預(yù)期的39%營(yíng)收同比增長(zhǎng)。

That rate of growth was the highest of thepast fourquarters, the company said, while mobile revenuesrose 149 per centyear on year to Rmb13.1bn ($2bn).Quarterly revenues rose to Rmb24.2bn, beatingmarket expectations, while annual active buyerson the company’s retailmarketplaces increased to 423m, up 16m over the prior quarter.

該公司表示，這個(gè)增幅是在過(guò)去四個(gè)季度中最高的，同時(shí)移動(dòng)端營(yíng)收同比增長(zhǎng)149%，至131億元人民幣(合20億美元)。季度總營(yíng)收增至242億元人民幣，超出市場(chǎng)預(yù)期，同時(shí)該公司零售市場(chǎng)的年度活躍買(mǎi)家增至4.23億，比前一季度增加1600萬(wàn)。

“Chinese consumers have a healthy balance sheet and ability to spend,”Joe Tsai,the company’sexecutive vice-chairman, told a press conference yesterday.

“中國(guó)消費(fèi)者有健康的資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表和支出能力，”該公司執(zhí)行副主席蔡崇信(Joseph Tsai)昨日在記者會(huì)上表示。

Economic growth in the first quarter ofthis year slipped to 6.7 per cent in China, well within thegovernment’s targetrange but still the slowest rate of gross domestic product growth sincethedepths of the global financial crisis in 2009.

今年第一季度，中國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)增長(zhǎng)放緩至6.7%，處在政府的目標(biāo)區(qū)間內(nèi)，但仍是自2009年全球金融危機(jī)最嚴(yán)重時(shí)期以來(lái)最慢的國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值(GDP)增速。

Alibaba’s revenue growth was faster thanthe 32 per cent rise of the December quarter as grossmerchandise value (GMV)sold on its retail platforms such as Taobao and Tmall rose 24 percent year onyear to Rmb742bn during the March quarter. Mobile GMV accounted for 73 percentof the total compared with 51 per cent a year earlier.

今年第一季度，阿里巴巴的營(yíng)收增速超過(guò)去年第四季度的32%，其零售平臺(tái)如淘寶和天貓上出售的總商品價(jià)值(GMV)同比增長(zhǎng)24%，至7420億元人民幣。移動(dòng)端GMV占總數(shù)的73%，高于一年前的51%。

“In the last six to 12 weeks Alibaba have been doing very well onmobile,”said Shaun Rein, ofChina Market Research group in Shanghai.

“在過(guò)去6到12個(gè)星期里，阿里巴巴在移動(dòng)端表現(xiàn)不俗，”總部位于上海的中國(guó)市場(chǎng)研究集團(tuán)(China MarketResearch)的雷小山(Shaun Rein)表示。

“I expect Alibaba to continue to do very well because consumerconfidence is still strong—salaries went up after lunar new year and there weren’t masslay-offs,”he added.

“我預(yù)期阿里巴巴將繼續(xù)表現(xiàn)出色，因?yàn)橄M(fèi)者信心依然強(qiáng)勁——春節(jié)后工資有所上漲，同時(shí)沒(méi)有大規(guī)模裁員，”他補(bǔ)充說(shuō)。

“And people want to buy from overseas because they trust thoseproducts more.”

“還有人想從海外購(gòu)買(mǎi)，因?yàn)樗麄兏嘈拍切┊a(chǎn)品。”

Alibaba has about 80 per cent market sharein online retail in China and is successful in cross-border commerce.

阿里巴巴在中國(guó)網(wǎng)上零售市場(chǎng)擁有約80%份額，而且在跨境電商領(lǐng)域相當(dāng)成功。