Alibaba appeal: Global leaders make time for Jack Ma

Stephen Harper, former prime minister of Canada

Date: November 7, 2014

Place: Alibaba-Campus, Hangzhou, China

Stephen Harper, then-prime minister of Canada, and Jack Ma pose for a photo at the headquarters of Alibaba in Hangzhou, China, November 7, 2014. [Photo /IC]

Stephen Harper, then-prime minister of Canada, visited Jack Ma at the headquarters of Alibaba on the first day of his visit to China in November 2014. They discussed how e-commerce could help small and medium-sized Canadian enterprises to reach China's middle class consumers. And Ma told Harper that Canadian producers had sold 20,000 lobsters through Alibaba's e-commerce platforms in 2013.