On Teacher's Day, September 10, this year, Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, decided not to serve as chairman of the board of directors, and will officially step down next year (2019)and return to education! This position will be taken over by Zhang Yong.
在今年的9月10号教师节这一天，阿里巴巴集团的创始人马云决定不再担任董事局主席，也将在明年(2019）的这一天正式卸任，重返教育事业！此职位将由张勇接任。
Some friends can not help but be surprised that entrepreneurs from poor to the best in China have chosen to retire in this way?
有些小伙伴不禁有些吃惊，从一穷二白到中国首屈一指的企业家就这样选择隐退了？
And choose to continue his education career in the future working hours!
并且选择在今后的工作时间中继续自己的教育事业！
Many people know that Jack Ma's English is very good, but they don't necessarily know that he was an English teacher before he started his business.
很多人都知道马爸爸的英文特别6，但是却不一定知道原来他在创业之前还当过英语老师。
Speaking of Jack Ma's process of learning English, in those days when the conditions were not allowed, he could not accept English early teaching and there were no good English textbooks, but this did not stop him from learning English enthusiastically.
说起马云学习英语的过程，在那个条件不允许的年代，不像现在可以接受英语早教，也没有好的英语教科书，但是这并没有阻挡他学英语的热情。
So he chose to ride a bicycle for 50 minutes every morning to meet foreigners in Hangzhou Hotel. He acted as a free guide for foreign tourists and learned English from them.
于是他选择每天早上骑50分钟的自行车到会接待外国人的杭州宾馆，当起外国游客的免费导游，跟他们学习英语。
He was never afraid to speak. He developed fluent English skills before going abroad.
他从来不怕开口，在没有出国之前就练就了流利的英语技能。
Jack, how can you speak English like that ? Why sometimes you talk like western guys?
当大家问到他，Jack，你的英语怎么说的这么好啊？
为什么有时候觉得你说话跟西方人一样呢？
I think that was the nine years.
他回答道： 我想就是那九年吧！（当外国游客免费导游）。
These western tourists open my mind.
这些西方的游客开拓了我的视野。
Because everything they told me are so different from the things I learnt from schools and from my parents.
因为他们告诉我的每一件事都与学校和父母告诉我的不一样。
Continuing his love of English, he was admitted to the English Department of Foreign Languages Department of Hangzhou Normal University.
延续着对英语的热爱他考入了杭州师范大学外语系英语专业。
After graduation, he served as an English and International Trade Teacher in Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology for six years.
在毕业后杭州电子工业学院担任了6年的英语及国际贸易教师。
According to his students' recollections, Mr. Ma used to put on his lips the phrase "English is a tool for linking the world".
据他的学生回忆，马老师曾经常把：“英语是链接世界的工具”这句话挂在嘴边。
Learning a language often allows you to form another way of thinking. Different perspectives often give you different solutions.
学习一门语言很多时候能够让你形成另外一种思考问题的方式，不同的视角往往会给你不同的解决方法。
As Jack Ma said, English is a good tool for you to communicate with others and the world.
如“马爸爸”所说，英语是一个很好的工具，能够让你获得跟别人交流的机会，也能让你获得跟世界交流的机会。
Because of learning English, Jack Ma went out of the country and had a broader vision. Later, he created Alibaba.
马老师因为学了英语，走出了国门，有了更广阔的视野，后来才创建阿里巴巴。
It can be seen that learning English well is a life-changing thing.
可见，学好英语是改变一生的事情啊！