In 2018, China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba created 40.82 million jobs, according to a report released by Renmin University of China (RUC) on March 25.

　　The company’s e-commerce platforms, including Taobao, provided about 15.58 million jobs for online retailers last year, and also helped create approximately 25.24 million jobs in upstream and downstream sectors of the online retail service.

　　E-commerce platforms including Alibaba have played an important role in stabilizing and boosting employment, said Yang Weiguo, director of RUC’s School of Labor and Human Resources, adding that new forms of employment, as an inevitable result of the development of the digital economy, have given workers more choices.