This is ali baba celebrated its founder at the event jack ma who started the company in his living room. Ma listed ali baba at the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 and became chinas richest man back then ali baba said it planned to be listed in hong kong as well now the time has come. Im also grateful that they choose to calm just spite the difficulties despite the challenges that we are going through here in hong kong. Ali baba called the listing a vote of confidence for the City Hong Kong has been rocked by sometimes violent prodemocracy protests for months the protests and the u. S. China trade war have sent the local economy into recession. Lets bring in craig hes a Senior Market unless theyre the one that joins us from london craig why is this thing so significant farley vava. Well i think we have to remember that this is actually the venue that alibaba want to list all those years ago but you to see and regulator you can see how to consider gold russians and of course new york is