阿里巴巴將在西安建地區(qū)總部

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba will set up a northwest headquarters in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province.

中國電商巨頭阿里巴巴將在陜西省省會西安建立一座地區(qū)總部。

The decision was announced by Ma Yun, Alibaba's chairman, during the World Xi'an Entrepreneurs Convention on Saturday, according to a press release given by Alibaba.

It cited Ma as saying that Xi'an is an important city in northwest China and the starting point of ancient Silk Road. Alibaba looks forward to be involved in the city's development.

Cainiao Network Technology, Alibaba's courier aggregator, will increase its investment in Xi'an to boost economic restructuring and transformation of northwestern areas, the press release said.

Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, and Xi'an Jiaotong University will establish a big data college to train talent, it said.

On Thursday, Alibaba said that its net profit jumped 96 percent to more than 14 billion yuan (2.1 billion U.S. dollars) year on year in the first fiscal quarter ending June. The group's revenue was about 50 billion yuan in the quarter, up 56 percent year on year.

1 transformation

n.變化;改造;轉(zhuǎn)變

參考例句：

Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大學使她的觀念發(fā)生了巨大的變化。

He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由單身漢變?yōu)榭煽康恼煞颉?/p>

2 computing

n.計算

參考例句：

to work in computing 從事信息處理

Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在計算機尚未普及的時代(約1980年)，他們就創(chuàng)辦了軟件公司。

3 fiscal

adj.財政的，會計的，國庫的，國庫歲入的

參考例句：

The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增稅是一項重要的財政政策。

The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有兩個可行的財政政策基本戰(zhàn)略。