阿里巴巴将在西安建地区总部

China's e-commerce giant Alibaba will set up a northwest headquarters in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province.

中国电商巨头阿里巴巴将在陕西省省会西安建立一座地区总部。

The decision was announced by Ma Yun, Alibaba's chairman, during the World Xi'an Entrepreneurs Convention on Saturday, according to a press release given by Alibaba.

It cited Ma as saying that Xi'an is an important city in northwest China and the starting point of ancient Silk Road. Alibaba looks forward to be involved in the city's development.

Cainiao Network Technology, Alibaba's courier aggregator, will increase its investment in Xi'an to boost economic restructuring and transformation of northwestern areas, the press release said.

Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, and Xi'an Jiaotong University will establish a big data college to train talent, it said.

On Thursday, Alibaba said that its net profit jumped 96 percent to more than 14 billion yuan (2.1 billion U.S. dollars) year on year in the first fiscal quarter ending June. The group's revenue was about 50 billion yuan in the quarter, up 56 percent year on year.

1 transformation

n.变化;改造;转变

参考例句：

Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。

He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。

2 computing

n.计算

参考例句：

to work in computing 从事信息处理

Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代(约1980年)，他们就创办了软件公司。

3 fiscal

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。

The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。