Chinanews.com, May 27. According to a report by Chinese.com.cn, on the 26th local time, Amazon announced at the annual general meeting that founder Jeff Bezos will officially step down as CEO on July 5.

  According to reports, Bezos will hand over the responsibility to Andy Jassy, ​​who is currently in charge of Amazon Web Services.

Bezos has become one of the world's richest people in the nearly three decades leading the Internet giant.

After stepping down as CEO, Bezos will become the executive chairman of Amazon.

Data map: Amazon CEO Bezos.

  The company first announced a leadership change in its February earnings report, saying that Jassy will take over in the third quarter, but did not announce the exact date for the transition.

  Bezos said that this date is very commemorative, because July 5, 1994 is the day Amazon was born.

He also said, "I am very happy to enter the role of executive chairman. In this position, I will focus my energy and attention on new products and the company's long-term planning."

  According to reports, Bezos founded Amazon in 1994. Since then, the company has transformed from an online bookstore to a giant online retailer.

Amazon's online retail network is all over the world.

  Jassy, ​​who will take over as CEO of Amazon, joined Amazon after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1997 and has been leading the Amazon cloud service team since the establishment of Amazon Web Services.