Ma Yun, who disappeared after being photographed by Xi Jinping, appeared at the golf course in four months.

Alibaba founder Ma Yun (馬雲) recently played golf in a resort in China. This is the first time his outside activities, which criticized the Chinese authorities at the end of October last year, disappeared from the public statue and turned to’missing rumors’.

On the 13th (local time), Bloomberg news agency reported, “Ma Yun stayed at the Sun Valley Resort south of Hainan in recent weeks,” and “he was playing golf like a beginner,” citing an anonymous source.

He added, “What he appeared on the golf course could at least be evidence that he avoided nightmare scenarios such as imprisonment and property seizure.”

Hainan is a representative resort in China. The golf course that Ma Yun visited is a 5-star luxury resort and is known to have a 27-hole course.

Earlier, Ma Yun attended the Shanghai Bund Financial Summit on October 24th and said, “The Chinese government is suppressing innovation” and “You can manage the future in the same way as the past, just as you cannot manage airports by managing train stations. “There is no” and other critical remarks to the current regime. At the time, it is known that the current regime’s real powers, including state vice-president Wang Chi-san, who was the most aide of State President Xi Jinping, were sitting there, and foreign media thought that this incident would have caused Ma Yun to disappear from the public statue.

Since then, he has refrained from activities to avoid further clashes with the Chinese authorities. The company remained silent even when the listing of Ant Group, a fintech (financial technology) company under Alibaba, which was expected to become the world’s largest, was canceled and became a financial holding company and was supervised by the People’s Bank, the central bank of China. It was all of his known activities that he held a video conference with 100 teachers in rural areas in China on the 20th of last month.

However, it is unclear whether Ma Yun will recover the status as a leading Chinese entrepreneur in the future. In a commentary on the Shanghai Securities Report issued by China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency on the 2nd, emphasizing “entrepreneurship,” Tencent Chairman Ma Hua Teng, Biyadi Chairman Wang Chuanfu, and Huawei Founder Ren Jungfei were mentioned. But Mawin was not mentioned.

Bloomberg news agency said, “It is difficult to predict what Ma Yun’s end will be,” and said, “The absence of him from the list of Chinese tech companies released by the state media is evidence that his relationship with the Party has weakened.”

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