Billionaire Jack Ma appears to have resurfaced in a quick 50-second videoconference clip, according to Chinese-owned media

• $4 on Wednesday after $4, per Chinese publication the Global Times.
• During the call, which reportedly occurred on Wednesday, the Chinese tech mogul spoke to 100 rural teachers from across China.
• Before the virtual appearance, the Alibaba and Ant Group founder had not been seen publicly in more than two months and was abruptly $4 on the African talent show he founded.

Chinese billionaire businessman $4 on Wednesday after $4, according to a 50-second clip released by the Global Times, a Chinese government-owned English-language newspaper.

In the video call, Ma, who $4, spoke to 100 rural teachers across China as a part of his Jack Ma Rural Teachers Award ceremony, which recognizes outstanding teachers in impoverished and remote areas.

"Recently, my colleagues and I have been studying and thinking. We made a firmer resolution to devote ourselves to education philanthropy," Ma said in the video, $4. "Working hard for rural revitalization and common prosperity is the responsibility for our generation of businessmen."

A spokesperson for the Jack Ma Foundation told Insider that Ma participated in the online ceremony of the annual Rural Teacher Initiative event on January 20, but the time and date of the video have not been independently verified.

Questions began swirling about $4 after the Alibaba and Ant Group founder failed to appear on the finale of the African talent show he created. Yahoo Finance reported on January 4 that $4 in more than two months.

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China has been cracking down on the tech mogul's business empire in recent months.

In late December, Chinese regulators $4, the country's biggest e-commerce company, sometimes referred to as "the Amazon of China." And in November, China introduced regulations that halted what would have been $4, Ma's fintech company.

In October, the 56-year-old Alibaba founder had publicly $4 at a conference in Shanghai. The next month, Ma was replaced as a judge on the African talent show he founded, "Africa's Business Heroes." An Alibaba representative told Insider that Ma could no longer be on the judging panel, which was filmed in November but has not yet been released, "due to a scheduling conflict."

Earlier this month, CNBC reporter David Faber said it was unlikely that Ma was "captured" by the Chinese state but that $4, where Alibaba is based. Ma $4 in 2019. But in the past, prominent businessmen including retired real-estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang and asset manager Xiao Jianhua have $4 after facing criticism from Chinese regulators, as Insider's Allana Akhtar reported.

Until recently, Ma was $4, with a fortune of more than $60 billion. But Ma has $4 over the past few months as China has tightened the rules for the fintech industry. Ma is now worth $52.9 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in China, $4.

A representative for Ant Group did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An Alibaba spokesperson referred Insider to the statement from the Jack Ma Foundation.