英文早点丨1005-阿里巴巴进军游戏业务

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2017年9月26日，阿里巴巴文化娱乐集团（简称阿里大文娱）宣布，正式成立游戏事业群，下设开放平台事业部和互动娱乐事业部。

新加入阿里大文娱游戏事业群的广州简悦创始人詹钟晖在全员信中表示，阿里是一家在任何业务领域“不干则已，干则卓越”的伟大企业。团队未来将不再受困于资源所限，在游戏精品自研方面，既胸怀大志，又脚踏实地，不断提升专业水准，在研运一体的思路下，未来将持续推出高流行度、高美誉度好作品，为阿里大文娱战略做出贡献。

据行业数据，2016年中国网游市场规模超1600亿元，预计2017年将超2000亿元，是全球最大的游戏市场。继上周宣布将大麦网升级为现场娱乐事业群后，阿里大文娱全资收购简悦，成立游戏事业群，将进一步加强文娱全产业链IP开发和商业化能力，也将显著提升其“基础设施赋能”的战略积累。

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Alibaba formally enters 

gaming business

E-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group's founder Jack Ma, who pledged on at least two occasions that the company would never enter the gaming industry, seems to have changed his mind. Ma said in 2008 that the company "would rather starve to death than live on games".

According to the China Gaming Industry Report jointly released on July 25 by Beijing-based Game Publishing Commission and market consultancies CNG and IDC, the sales revenue of the Chinese gaming industry surged 26.7 percent to 99.8 billion yuan ($15 billion) in the first half of this year, the majority 70 percent contributed by Tencent and NetEase.