Last year Ma staged a fifth-anniversary bash, in an arena, for all 2, 000 employees, with Taobaoists waving flags of worker ants, the mascot of Taobao--because enough ants united can defeat an elephant.
In environmental news, Xinhua flags up a survey by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences showing that only 22.2%of shallow groundwater in the North China Plain is drinkable because of pollution.