Jack Ma says he will go back to teaching when he retires from Alibaba this September

At the Viva Tech Conference in Paris, executive chairman and founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, announced he would be going back to teaching on retiring in September.As a former English teacher, he said he's choosing to do so because he loves teaching.He added that he still considered himself to be young and that wanted to spend another 15 years in the education sector.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The richest man in China wants to retire and return to his teaching roots.The executive chairman and founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma announced at the Viva Tech Conference in Paris on May 16 that he would be going back to teaching after retiring in September this year.The 54-year-old said that he would officially step down from his position on September 10 this year — the company's 20th anniversary.The former English teacher said that he is choosing to do so because he loves teaching.He added that he wanted to spend the money he earned from Alibaba on improving and changing the education system in China instead of handing it to investors or banks.Ma added that he still considered himself to be young and that he wanted to spend another 15 years in the education sector.Read more: 17 billionaires who lost the most in the past yearAccording to Forbes, in September last year, Ma announced he would be resigning in 2019, and revealed that his position would be succeeded by Alibaba's CEO Daniel Zhang.In fact, Ma had already been looking out for “someone better than him” ever since an investor asked him to resign when the company was “in big trouble” more than 10 years ago.“I heard that and I said: 'I cannot resign now, because if I resign now, the company will collapse',” Ma said, and told the investor he would only resign when the company was doing well.Ma's retirement is currently a trending topic on Weibo, and a video of his announcement has been viewed over 1.98 million times since it was uploaded on Friday, May 17.At the same conference, Ma said that he was not proud of the fact that he founded Alibaba.Instead, he was proud of the mistakes and challenges that the company had overcome over the last 20 years, he said.According to the post on Pear Video, Ma said: “When you become an entrepreneur, don't worry about the competitors, don't worry about the mistakes, don't worry about the challenges; go through it. That's the great, fun part about your business.”“You cannot sit there and cry,” Ma said, and added that if crying would solve his problems, he could “cry oceans of tears”.According to Forbes, Jack Ma is the richest man in China with a net worth of $34.6 billion.