More than a year after the disappearance of domestic public view, Ma Yun returned from overseas!
Recently, some netizens witnessed Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma in the Wenyi Road tunnel in Hangzhou. In the video, Ma rides in a Kautex and talks to people around him from time to time.
In this regard, relevant people confirmed that the people in the car were Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group Daniel Zhang and Shao Xiaofeng, Executive Vice President of Ant Group. Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who previously appeared in Japan, Thailand and other places, has returned to China.
In addition, Ma Yun also appeared at Yungu School and discussed the future education with the campus director.
In response to the hot topics such as ChatGPT, Ma Yun said that ChatGPT technology has brought challenges to education, but ChatGPT technology is only the beginning of the AI era. We must use artificial intelligence to solve problems, not controlled by artificial intelligence, although human physical strength and brain power are not as good as machines, but machines only have "cores", and people have "hearts". Ma Yun said that the industrial age is knowledge-driven and knowledge competition; The digital age is driven by intelligence, a competition for creativity and imagination, a competition for leadership, responsibility, and independent thinking.
The last time Jack Ma appeared in the domestic public eye was on December 30, 2022, when he appeared at the online meeting of the Jack Ma Foundation's "Rural Teacher Program".
01 Jack Ma's whereabouts
Before Ma Yun returned to Hangzhou, Ma Yun's whereabouts have always been the focus of attention of the melon-eating masses!
In July 2022, Ma visited Wageningen University in the Netherlands and, according to local media reports, studied sustainable animal husbandry and fisheries, especially agriculture in the Gobi Desert, and the sustainability of food production.
After that, Ma Yun turned to Spain, and Ma Yun was photographed in Spain riding his $200 million superyacht "Zen" to Mallorca, known as the "European Maldives", one of the purposes of which was to investigate Spanish agriculture.
After that, some media exposed the news that Ma Yun and his family lived in Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Ma and his family reportedly spent time in rural hot springs and ski resorts outside Tokyo, making regular trips to the United States and Israel. During his life, Ma Yun changed his usual posture of denouncing Fang Xuan in various forums, and kept a low profile, bringing only his personal chef and security personnel, and trying not to participate in public events that he could not attend.
His most frequent visits are to several private members' clubs in Tokyo. One of the clubs, located in Tokyo's Ginza, which is described as "Asia's most expensive place," is busy but cautious on weekdays and specializes in wealthy Chinese who settle or stay in Tokyo for extended periods, according to people familiar with the matter. The other is located in the Marunouchi Financial District, opposite the Imperial Palace. According to the data, Tokyo Marunouchi, together with Wall Street in New York and the City of London, is known as the "world's three major financial streets", and there are countless financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies located in this area, sitting on the second most expensive land price in Japan.
In 2023, Ma Yun began his trip to Southeast Asia. According to Thailand's "Nation Daily", on January 5, Ma Yun appeared at the Rajadamnern Muay Thai Gym in Bangkok, Thailand, to watch the match. Ma Yun was photographed by the media posing to fight legendary Thai Muay Thai fighter Buakaw Banchamek. The next day, he also went to an influencer restaurant in Bangkok and took a photo with the chef. In the photo, Jack Ma is smiling and his sideburns are gray.
Later, it was reported that Mr. Ma had arrived in Hong Kong just before the Spring Festival to buy New Year goods in Hong Kong, seemingly in preparation for the Chinese New Year. During that time, Mr. Ma met in Hong Kong with Xie Guomin, Thailand's richest man and senior chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group, and his third son, Chia Rongren, the chief executive of CP.
After the Lunar New Year, Teacher Ma left for Australia. Some netizens met Jack Ma in a hotel in Melbourne, Australia, and in the photo, he was wearing cloth shoes and playing with his mobile phone and drinking Coke. A photo of Ma in Australia with the Morley family of 43 years appeared on social media.
02 Jack Ma withdrew from the position of actual controller of Ant Group
At the same time, Alibaba's rectification work is nearing completion.
On January 7, Ant Technology Group released the "Announcement on Continuous Improvement of Corporate Governance" on its official website, announcing that the relevant management members of Ant Group will no longer serve as Alibaba partners, while Jack Ma and his concerted actors will independently exercise their voting rights, and Jack Ma will no longer be the actual controller of the group.
On the evening of January 8, Hang Seng Electronic disclosed that due to the change in the equity structure of Ant Group, the parent company of Hang Seng Group, the controlling shareholder, the actual controller of the company has changed its interests, the actual controller of the listed company will be changed from Jack Ma to no actual controller, and the controlling shareholder will still be Hang Seng Group.
Alibaba also disclosed changes in the voting structure of major shareholders of Ant Group, a non-consolidated related party, and said that Alibaba Group's equity interest in Ant Group remains unchanged and that neither Alibaba Group nor any other shareholder controls Ant Group. After this change, the voting rights held by Ant Group shareholders will be more dispersed and the economic interests will be more aligned.
In addition, Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance Co., Ltd.'s huge capital increase has finally landed, and the registered capital has increased from 8 billion yuan to 18.5 billion yuan, becoming the consumer finance company with the highest registered capital.
After the completion of the capital increase, the largest shareholder of Ant Consumer Gold is Ant Group, holding 50% of the equity; The second largest shareholder is Hangjin Shuke, holding 10% of the shares, while the other 10 shareholders all hold less than 6.5%. In addition to private capital, state-owned capital also participated in this capital increase. It is understood that the actual controller of Hangjin Numerical Science is the Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. Chongqing Rural Credit Investment Group Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chongqing Supply and Marketing Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd., and the actual controller is Chongqing Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
03 Most of the problems of 14 large platform enterprises such as Ant Group have basically completed rectification
On January 13, at a press conference on financial statistics for 2022 held by the Information Office of the State Council, Ma Yiyang, head of the Financial Market Department of the People's Bank of China, pointed out that the People's Bank of China will guide financial institutions to treat enterprises of all types of ownership equally, and create a better financial environment for the development and growth of the private economy and private enterprises. Further increase credit support for private small and micro enterprises; Further expand the scale of private enterprise bond financing; Further improve the financial services of private small and micro enterprises; Further promote the healthy development of platform enterprises.
Since November 2020, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and in accordance with the work deployment of the Financial Commission, the People's Bank of China, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and other financial management departments have guided and urged 14 large platform enterprises such as Ant Group to carry out solid rectification and reform in view of the outstanding problems such as unlicensed operation, regulatory arbitrage, disorderly expansion, and infringement of consumer rights and interests in the past financial business.
"Over the past year, various regulatory authorities, especially the 14 platform companies, have been very active and have achieved some positive results." Ma Yiyang said that at present, most of the problems have basically completed rectification, large platform enterprises operate in compliance and fair competition, consumer protection awareness has been significantly enhanced, and financial business has been continuously standardized.
This article originated from the financial world