Jack Ma gives up title at Zhejiang guild as Alibaba founder keeps up his post-retirement study of fisheries and agriculture

Jack Ma relinquished his title as the head of a prestigious guild in his home province as the founder of Alibaba Group Holding continued his post-retirement tour of food-related businesses and farms around the world.

Ma, who turned 58 in September, stepped down on Wednesday as the president of the General Association of Zhejiang Entrepreneurs, a titular position he held since 2015 in the congregation of corporate chieftains in his home province, an area in China long-known for private entrepreneurship.