阿里巴巴上季營收增長超預期

China’s shoppers defiedthe country’s economic slowdown, boosting ecommerce group Alibaba to a betterthan expected 39 per cent year-on-year rise in revenues for the past quarter.

中國購物者沒有受到國內經濟增長放緩的影響，助推電子商務集團阿里巴巴(Alibaba)在上個季度實現好於預期的39%營收同比增長。

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

該公司表示，這個增幅是在過去四個季度中最高的，同時移動端營收同比增長149%，至131億元人民幣（合20億美元）。季度總營收增至242億元人民幣，超出市場預期，同時該公司零售市場的年度活躍買家增至4.23億，比前一季度增加1600萬。

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

“中國消費者有健康的資產負債表和支出能力，”該公司執行副主席蔡崇信(Joseph Tsai)昨日在記者會上表示。

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

今年第一季度，中國經濟增長放緩至6.7%，處在政府的目標區間內，但仍是自2009年全球金融危機最嚴重時期以來最慢的國內生產總值(GDP)增速。

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

今年第一季度，阿里巴巴的營收增速超過去年第四季度的32%，其零售平臺如淘寶和天貓上出售的總商品價值(GMV)同比增長24%，至7420億元人民幣。移動端GMV佔總數的73%，高於一年前的51%。

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

“在過去6到12個星期裏，阿里巴巴在移動端表現不俗，”總部位於上海的中國市場研究集團(China Market Research)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.

“我預期阿里巴巴將繼續表現出色，因爲消費者信心依然強勁——春節後工資有所上漲，同時沒有大規模裁員，”他補充說。

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

“還有人想從海外購買，因爲他們更相信那些產品。”

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

阿里巴巴在中國網上零售市場擁有約80%份額，而且在跨境電商領域相當成功。