Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia

Date: June 16, 2016

Place: St Petersburg, Russia

Jack Ma talks with Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former prime minister of Australia, at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum that opened on June 16, 2016. [Xu Jingxing/China Daily]

Jack Ma met Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former prime minister of Australia, while attending the 20th St Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 16, 2016.

Ma proposed the establishment of digital free trade zones for small businesses and called for Russia to become an e-hub intersection connecting Asia and Europe at the forum.