Jack Ma's Business Stripped Down One By One, UC Browser Is Eliminated By The Chinese Government

JAKARTA - Bad news for Jack Ma's business. Now Alibaba's internet browser, UC Browser has been removed from a number of app stores in China.

This came a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced he would initiate a crackdown on major technology companies. Alibaba's UC Browser has been removed from the app stores operated by Huawei, Xiaomi and Tencent.

The disappearance of the browser application came after UC Browse was criticized in an event broadcast by CCTV, the state-owned broadcaster, about a misleading online medical advertisement.

The event accused UC Browser of allowing private hospitals to bid on "the name of the most famous hospital in China" in search keywords. So it has the potential to lure patients to their website instead of the general hospital they are supposed to visit.

A UC Browser spokesman said it would make corrections. The company said the illegal advertising content had been removed.

"It will rapidly undertake a series of actions to check and correct," UC Browser said in a statement.

"We will further improve content reviews and assume more responsibility, and provide good info services to a stricter standard."

Not only dismantling Jack Ma's business, President Xi Jinping also blocked the IPO of USD 37 billion of the Alibaba Ant Group group company, last November. And Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba and China's richest man, has barely been seen in public since.