Chinese business tycoons are earning a greater reputation and more say around the globe. That’s the result of China’s stable economic growth amid the world economic downturn. In order to make successful Chinese entrepreneurs more well-known in China as well as abroad and reward their efforts, CCTV is holding an awards ceremony this Wednesday evening. Ten business and economic leaders will be given the CCTV 2012 Economic Person of the Year awards.

One winner of this prestigious award is Jack Ma, the head of e-commerce giant Alibaba. His platform and created a historical 19 billion yuan in online sales on November 11th, that’s about 3 billion US dollars of sales volume in one single day. His Alibaba group also went private in mid 2012. Analysts say the former English teacher may plan a separate listing for his platforms.

Another winner tonight is Liang Wengen, the head of Sany Group. The company merged with German manufacturing giant Putzmeister this year and paid 360 million euros. The merger allows Sany to gain market access in more than 110 countries and regions. Liang also took the bold move and sued US President Barack Obama for blocking a wind farm project, and surprisingly announced to move its headquarters to Beijing.

Another winner is Yang Yuanqing, the head of Chinese computer giant Lenovo, which was recently crowned with the title of the world’s largest PC maker. This comes after Lenovo became the world’s second largest PC maker in October, 2011.

Other winners include Ning Gaoning, the head of China’s state-owned food company COFCO, Yu Liang, the head of real estate giant Vanke, and Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda Group. 7 out of 10 winners work in the real economy.

（本文英文新聞來源于央視網(wǎng)）

滬江英語快訊：12月12日晚，2012年度“CCTV中國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)年度人物”揭曉。十大經(jīng)濟(jì)年度人物名單如下：三一集團(tuán)董事長(zhǎng)梁穩(wěn)根 、阿里巴巴CEO馬云、聯(lián)想集團(tuán)CEO楊元慶、中糧集團(tuán)董事長(zhǎng)寧高寧、大連萬達(dá)董事長(zhǎng)王健林、陽光保險(xiǎn)董事長(zhǎng)兼總裁張維功、中國(guó)船舶工業(yè)集團(tuán)董事長(zhǎng)胡問鳴、中國(guó)建筑材料集團(tuán)董事長(zhǎng)宋志平、萬科股份總裁郁亮、沈陽機(jī)床董事長(zhǎng)關(guān)錫友。

延伸閱讀：

同為獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)叩陌⒗锇桶投聲?huì)主席馬云和萬達(dá)董事長(zhǎng)王健林，在頒獎(jiǎng)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)設(shè)置的辯論環(huán)節(jié)，兩人就“電商會(huì)否取代傳統(tǒng)的店鋪經(jīng)營(yíng)”這一話題展開辯論。兩人更設(shè)下億元賭局，對(duì)賭十年后電商在零售市場(chǎng)份額能否過半。

我一定說電商會(huì)勝”，馬云的觀點(diǎn)簡(jiǎn)單直接。馬云指出電商不可能完全取代零售行業(yè)，但也會(huì)“基本取代”。他進(jìn)一步表示，今天電子商務(wù)不是想取代誰，不是想消滅誰，而是想建設(shè)更加新穎的、透明的、開放、公正、公平的商業(yè)環(huán)境，去支持更多的年輕人成長(zhǎng)發(fā)展。

“但是我不認(rèn)為電商出來，傳統(tǒng)零售渠道就一定會(huì)死”，王健林的反駁基于三個(gè)觀點(diǎn)：一是電商份額目前仍然很小，二是零售渠道有獨(dú)特的存在價(jià)值，三是零售商會(huì)采取措施積極應(yīng)對(duì)。王健林舉例說，美國(guó)前十大電商都是零售渠道。