Alibaba's Jack Ma makes first public appearance since October last year

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma recently met 100 rural teachers as annual Rural Teacher Initiative event via a live video meeting since last October. He even missed the final episode of a TV show featuring him as a judge.

Ma had not appeared in public since a late-October forum in Shanghai, where he blasted China's regulatory system in a speech that set him on a collision course with officials, leading to suspension of a $37-bn IPO of Alibaba's financial affiliate Ant Group.