CHINESE e-commerce firm Alibaba.com Ltd has teamed up with more than 300 universities to train e-commerce professionals, the Hong Kong-listed company said yesterday.

It will launch courses to teach online trading and aim to cultivate 10 million professionals over three to five years to boost the business mode. Earlier, Ma Yun, board chairman of Alibaba.com, said the firm will invest 10 billion yuan (US$1.42 billion) to build an e-commerce chain in the next three to five years.