On May 7th, a grand group wedding ceremony was held in Alibaba Group headquarters in Binjiang district, Hangzhou, Zhejiang for 102 happy couples. Among the couples, husband or wife works for Alibaba and about 40 couples are both employees of Alibaba.

Ma Yun, CEO of Alibaba, made a speech on the wedding ceremony, congratulating the 102 couples and hoping the couples would support each other, trust each other and be committed in their lifelong relationship.

While a lot of companies forbid relationship at work place, Alibaba is open to the office love among its’ 17293 employees. Wei Zhe, CEO of Alibaba’s B2B section, was quoted as saying:” Employees of Alibaba are too busy working and usually they don’t have time to socialize and date. It’s a good thing that they find true love among their fellow colleagues…” For the time being, about 198 employees of Alibaba have tied knot.

Alibaba group, founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) in 1999, is a privately-owned Hangzhou-based Internet-based business that includes business-to-business international trade, online retail and payment platforms and data-centric cloud computing services.

By Li Hui

Editor: Xie Fang