Alibaba’s Media Conglomerate Dream

Since 2009, Alibaba has aggressively built its media landscape by buying up media assets and integrating old and new media. Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma has reportedly maintained good relations with the Chinese government, a win-win situation that is beneficial to the development of China’s big data technology and internet/e-commerce sector. In 2016, China for the first time became the world’s biggest "acquiring nation" in the technology industry.