[Epoch Times October 27, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Ning Haizhong reported) Alibaba’s English “South China Morning Post” reported on the evening of October 26 that Jack Ma had arrived in the Netherlands and visited several research institutes. Agricultural technologies such as local greenhouses.
The report said that Jack Ma visited a number of research institutions in the Netherlands on the 25th, involving the technology of the BOAL Group, a professional company in aluminum profiles and greenhouse roofs. A photo shows Jack Ma picking up a pot of orchids and asking a Dutch expert next to him.
The report quoted people familiar with the matter as revealing that Jack Ma will continue to travel to Europe to visit more companies and research institutions involved in agricultural infrastructure, plant breeding and professional knowledge training in this field.
The report said that Jack Ma believes that the combination of this technology with Alibaba’s cloud computing, big data analysis and artificial intelligence will help China’s agricultural development.
On the 19th, the South China Morning Post reported that after Jack Ma spent “private time” with his family in Hong Kong, he went to Spain to investigate agriculture and environmental related technologies. After that, Jack Ma would participate in a series of business meetings in Europe.
According to people familiar with the matter, Jack Ma resigned as chairman of Alibaba on his 55th birthday in 2019 and is currently conducting inspections in his personal capacity. This is also the first time Jack Ma has gone abroad in more than a year.
At the end of October 2020, Jack Ma publicly criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s regulatory agencies at the Shanghai Bund Financial Summit, and was interviewed by the four major financial regulatory agencies. In early November, Ant Group’s listing plan was urgently suspended, and Alibaba was subsequently accused of violating the “Anti-Monopoly Law” and fined 18.2 billion yuan.
After that, Ma Yun left the public eye for a while.
At the beginning of September 2021, it was circulated on the Internet that Jack Ma appeared in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province on September 1, and visited several agricultural greenhouses, suspected to be in Ali’s digital agricultural base. But spokespersons for Alibaba and Jack Ma Foundation did not confirm the visit.
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