Jack Ma, CEO of Alibaba and the richest man in China, joined the Communist Party

The party's nomination was announced by the official Diario del Pueblo newspaper. Ma said in a report a few months ago that plans to leave the presidency of Alibaba next year.

Jack Ma, 54, has always supported the political and economic measures advocated by the president of his country, Xi Jinping. One of them, for example, is the use of big data for crime prevention, an essential technology for a country of more than 1.3 billion people.

At the moment, Alibaba has a market price of about $ 400,000 million and ranks among the top 10 most profitable companies in the world.

Among the other celebrities who will join the Communist Party to mark the 40th anniversary of reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping to allow the existence of private enterprises in the country, are also the CEO of Chinese search engine Baidu, Robin Liand the basketball star Yao Ming.