Jack Ma makes rare visit to Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou

Alibaba founder Jack Ma, largely out of public view amid a regulatory clampdown on the group, made a rare visit to its Hangzhou campus on Monday during the e-commerce giant’s annual “Ali Day” staff and family event, company sources said.

The billionaire has kept an extremely low profile since delivering a speech in October in Shanghai criticising China’s financial regulators, which set off a chain of events that led to the shelving of what would have been a record $37 billion initial public offering of Alibaba’s affiliate Ant Group.