diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index f90eb6d6..f92c41d2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ script:
 
 before_deploy:
   - make linkcheck
-  # compress current build of Simplified Chinese in case of tagged build
-  - tar -zcvf clearlinux-docs-zh-CN.tar.gz -C source/_build/zh_CN .
   # only deploy the latest tagged release of Simplified Chinese docs
   - wget https://github.com/clearlinux/clear-linux-documentation/releases/latest/download/clearlinux-docs-zh-CN.tar.gz
   - mkdir source/_build/html/zh_CN