Reporter Li Zongfang / Full report
Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, was said to have settled in Japan after his retirement. He hasn’t been seen in public for a long time. On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, he attended the ‘Rural Teachers Program’ started by the Jack Ma Charity Foundation online on the 30th day of the 12th lunar month. Award ceremony for painting. According to the official Weibo, Ma Yun never misses Laba’s appointment, “Hope to meet you offline as soon as possible!”
Jack Ma made an “online” appointment with rural teachers in Laba. (Picture / Taken from Weibo @马云公益基金会)
According to photos from the event released by the Jack Ma Charity Foundation Weibo, Jack Ma wore a white stand-up collar shirt and made a confrontational gesture in his hands in front of an Apple computer. “Teacher Ma” participated in the Laba Rural Teacher Covenant through video communication. According to usual practice, this year’s Ma Yun Rural Teacher Award was awarded to 100 rural teachers to support them in developing their professional practice skills and education and better help rural areas at the forefront of rural education Children grow up healthy.
Ma Yun’s last public appearance was on the morning of January 20, 2022, which was also the lunar calendar. He also met through the “cloud” and gave a talk online. At that moment, Ma Yun said, “We will meet again when the epidemic is over!
Ma Yun presents the Rural Teacher Award every year during the Laba Festival. (Picture / Taken from Weibo @马云公益基金会)
It is reported that Ma Yun has been an English teacher for 6 years. In 2014, he stepped down as CEO of Alibaba and founded the Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation the following year. Since 2015, every Laba Festival and rural teachers will hold the “Rural Teacher Awards Ceremony” in Sanya “One Phase One Meeting”. Each of the 100 outstanding rural frontline teachers will receive a total of 100,000 yuan for three consecutive years (Approximately NT $440,000) in prize money and professional development opportunities, and set up the “Ma Yun Rural Principal Award”, invest 200 million yuan (about NT$880 million) within 10 years, each awarded principal can get RMB 500,000 yuan (about NT$2.2 million) practical funds and the opportunity to study in internationally renowned universities.
Previously, it was reported that Jack Ma publicly criticized the mainland financial supervision at the second Bund Financial Summit in Shanghai in October 2020, which hampered the business of Alibaba, Ant Group and its listing plans in the mainland and Hong Kong. Since then Ma Yun has become low-key, rarely making public appearances. The British “Financial Times” said in early December that Jack Ma has been living in Tokyo for nearly six months, and has also bought a luxury villa with an area of more than 20,000 square meters in Hakone.
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