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Jack Ma, founder and chairman of online marketplace Alibaba, has sparked criticism after advising his newlywed employees to have sex six times in six days.
Ma, also China’s richest man, was speaking at his company’s mass wedding which takes place every year on ‘Ali Day’ on May 10 at the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, east China.
As the officiant at the ceremony, the 54-year-old founder also urged the new couples to procreate, calling children a better investment that property.
‘The first KPI of marriage is to have results. There must be products. What is the product? Have children,’ Ma said.
‘Marriage is not for the purpose of accumulating wealth, not for buying a house, not for buying a car, but for having a child together,’ he added.
His message comes amid a dwindling birth rate in China and an increasing pressure on the country’s slowing economy.
The number of babies born in 2018 fell by two million to 15.23 million - marking the lowest birth rate since 1961, despite Beijing relaxing its one-child policy in 2016.
