马云在 apec 的英语演讲稿
eacher in Hangzhou, founded the Alibaba Group in 1999 after
successfully starting China Pages, widely believed to be the
mainland's first , in 1995. A popular speaker at
global business conferences, he also gave his take on government
bailouts offered to larger companies and financial institutions.
'We have heard so many stories about big companies in trouble...
They are the troublemakers, we should not give them so much
support, let them die, it is time for them to die,' he said, to
loud applause. Mr Ma added that if governments want strong
economies, they should turn their attention to SMEs and give
incentives to individuals starting their own
reason: SME owners may start small, but they dream big: 'We
believe we are tomorrow's Google, we believe we are tomorrow's
eBay, we believe we are tomorrow's UPS.' Singapore's
Minister of State for Trade and Industry Lee Yi Shyan also
called for Apec economies to focus their efforts on helping
smaller companies. 'While we might have moved out of the
worst of the financial crisis, the foundation of recovery is
still fragile and can be weakened if we allow protectionism to
creep in,' said Mr Lee. At a separate event yesterday,
Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang noted that the Apec
CEO Summit's theme of Rebuilding the Global Economy: Crisis and
Opportunity was a timely one. Speaking at the welcome
reception for delegates, he said: 'It is also apt that at this
critical juncture of the world economy, this year's CEO Summit
has a record turnout of Apec leaders since the inception of the
CEO Summit in 1996.' The minister said that as Apec
celebrates its 20th birthdaythis year, it is a good opportunity
for Apec and the private sector to consider how it can develop
and implement initiatives to meet future needs. Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Chinese President Hu Jintao will be
among the speakers at the Apec CEO Summit today. Thank you
very much, director sir, Ladies and Gentlemen. Before my
speech, I would like to show you a video which happened in
Hangzhou about our Hangzhou SME summit, can I? Thank you!
After 3 days, you know, in house meeting Internal and fly all
the way here, and I did not feel quite well today. But when I
see the entrepreneurs, when I came to the SMEs, I always feel
excited. Because when I join the SME Conference, I see, from the
eyes, the dreams, the passion, the hope. When I join the Fortune
500 Conference, among the CEOs, I see the numbers, I see the
revenues, I see the KPIs, I see the bloody competition. But
among the SMEs, you see "I have a dream, I want to do
something." And that happens all the time and that makes me
excited all the time. And today I think last year every
people say:"Woo, the economic is in trouble, and we are all
dead, what we are going to do?" Today everybody seems to be
happy, say the economy come back .Is it really that the economy
comes back? I don't think so .The money is going to big
companies, the money goes to infrastructure; the money goes back
to the stock market. It seems nobody learns from that. How can
the economy come back if the SMEs do not come back? How can the
economic come back if the dreams are not back, the hopes not
come back? I saw one thing that, few days, you know, 2 days
ago I had a dinner with my Singapore friends and they said:
“Singapore government is encouraging to have more babies,
Because, you know , people are aging and not enough kids.” I
think SMEs, we, every economy, every nation, needs instant
package to have more small medium size companies, to have more
hopes, because every big company comes from the small business.
If without hope, without this kind of instants to have more
babies, we are going to die. Why I always feel excited? I
have 8 babies. In the far past 15 years, I built up 8 companies,
seven of them, very healthy; one of them, I sold it. And I keep
the babies, when I look at my babies--Alibaba , Taobao, Alipay
and you know ,the company we just have AliCloud, we just have a
new baby 2 month ago . I always feel excited because you see the
hope, you know this baby is going to change me, this baby is
going to change the world can change the customers. And that’s
the thing I always feel excited. If you want to be happy, have
more babies. If you are the government, want your economy to be
good, have more SMES. These are the dreams, these are the hope,
these are the future. So this is all we want to say, but enough,
we’ve been crying, say: “please give us support.” But all the
SMES ask yourself one question. We are not crying babies. We
believe we are tomorrow’s Google, we believe we are tomorrow’s
eBay, YouTube; we believe we are tomorrow’s UPS. If we believe
we are, we can be; if you don’t believe, you never be. We
heard a lot of government say:” (we give you) let me know what
we can do. let me know what we can help SMES.” we heard a lot
of banks say:” well, we’ve been, you know, give loans to a lot
of SMES.”I heard some bank said, well, one of the bank
president said: “we gave like, you know, 200 millions US$ to
the SMES.”I ask:” what’s the size the loan you give?”20
millions dollars. How can you say the 20 millions? As the
research I got, from Alibaba Group (Alibaba statistic), 87% of
the SMES, what they need, the fund is below 60 thousand US$. But
they gave the loan 20 millions to some big companies, they are
not SMES, they are not the hopes. But, I think all the SMES
say (that) nobody can help you. My 8 companies, I always say,
nobody help us, only we can help ourselves. Don’t rely on the
government, don’t rely on the bank, forget about that. Rely on
your friends, rely on relatives, rely on your small dreams and
always keep that thing in head. Because I’ve been trying very
hard to get loans from banks, always trouble. Within the past
the years, I even did not borrow one cent from banks, my kids
grew up, I don’t know why. And the banks always say
because we don’t have enough information from the SMEs. Tell
me, any fortune 500, any big bank, CEOs or presidents go to the
SMEs summit? No! They go to the CEOs summit. How could you get
information if you do not go there to listen to them, talk to
them, share experiences with them? To see what they need is only
50 thousand US$, instead of 20 million dollars. How can you get
enough information? So, I think, well, we discussed yesterday
say, banks are banks. They always have to control the risk.
Right! So government banks, let’s think about something new.
New financial structure that can really help those millions of
hopeful small companies that need only 50 thousand US $. What is
the right structure, what is the right organization to support
them? That’s the thing we should think about.
