China's Alibaba to invest $15.5 billion towards “common prosperity”

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Alibaba’s investment will go towards supporting small and medium enterprises and agriculture, and towards setting up a 20 billion yuan “common prosperity development fund”, said the newspaper, based in the province where Alibaba’s headquarters are housed.

An Alibaba spokesperson confirmed the news.

($1 = 6.4613 Chinese yuan renminbi)