Jack Ma’s absence is telling given the Shanghai Securities News is the most important business publication in Alibaba’s backyard. — Bloomberg
Jack Ma was conspicuously absent from a list of China’s entrepreneurial greats published by state media Tuesday, underscoring how the iconic Alibaba co-founder has run afoul of Beijing.
Ma, lionised at home for creating some of his country’s largest corporations, didn’t make the cut in a Shanghai Securities News front-page commentary lauding the leading lights of technology. Instead, the official Chinese paper held up archrival Pony Ma as “rewriting the mobile age” with Tencent Holdings Ltd. Also on its list were BYD Co chairman Wang Chuanfu, Xiaomi Corp co-founder Lei Jun and Huawei Technologies Co’s Ren Zhengfei.
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