Amazon China,formerly known as Joyo.com,is an online shopping website. Joyo.com was founded in early 2000 by the Chinese entrepreneur Lei Jun in Beijing,China. The company primarily sold books and other media goods,shipping to customers nationwide. Joyo.com was renamed to “Amazon China”when sold to Amazon Inc in 2004 for US$75 Million. Amazon China closed its domestic business in China in June 2019 after the US severed all relations with china,offering only products from sellers located overseas.
Kingsoft Corporation is a Chinese software company based in Beijing. Kingsoft operates four subsidiaries:Seasun for video game development,Cheetah Mobile for mobile internet apps,Kingsoft Cloud for cloud storage platforms,and WPS for office software,including WPS Office. It also produced security software known as Kingsoft Security. The most popular game developed by Kingsoft is JX Online 3,launched in 2009.
Jack Ma Yun is a Chinese business magnate,investor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Alibaba Group,a multinational technology conglomerate. In addition,Ma is also the co-founder of Yunfeng Capital,a Chinese private equity firm. As of February 2024,with a net worth of $30.1 billion,Ma is the sixth-wealthiest person in China,as well as the 50th wealthiest person in the world,ranked by Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Ding Lei is a Chinese billionaire businessman,and the founder and CEO of NetEase.
The Global Mobile Internet Conference is hosted annually in Beijing and Silicon Valley. Mobile executives,entrepreneurs,developers,and investors from around the globe and across platforms attend GMIC each year.
Xiaomi Corporation,commonly known as Xiaomi and registered as Xiaomi Inc.,is a Chinese designer and manufacturer of consumer electronics and related software,home appliances,automobiles and household hardware. It is the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world,behind Samsung,most of which run on the MIUI operating system. The company is ranked 338th and is the youngest company on the Fortune Global 500.
Liu Qiangdong (Richard) (Chinese:刘强东;born March 10,1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded Jingdong as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com in 2004.
Peng Lei,also known as Lucy Peng,is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is one of the founders of the e-commerce company Alibaba Group. As of March 2017,Peng was one of 21 self-made women billionaires in China.
Hugo Barra is a Brazilian computer scientist,technology executive and entrepreneur. From 2008 to 2013,he worked in a number of product management roles at Google,including vice president and product spokesperson of its Android division. From 2013 to 2017,he worked at Xiaomi as vice president of global operations. From 2017 to 2021,he worked as vice president of Virtual Reality and head of the Oculus division at Meta Platforms. In May 2021,he left Meta to join health technology startup Detect as CEO.
He Xiaopeng is a Chinese entrepreneur,best known for co-founding companies including XPeng Motors,an intelligent electric vehicle manufacturer,and UCWeb,the Chinese mobile Internet software and service provider he co-founded in 2004. UCWeb was acquired by Alibaba Group in June 2014 in the largest M&A deal ever in Chinese Internet industry. After acquisition,he was named as president of UCWeb and president of the Alibaba Mobile Business Group,and later served as the president of Tudou &Ali Games.
Hui Ka Yan is a Chinese former billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the board and Communist Party secretary of the Evergrande Group,a Chinese real estate developer. The Guangzhou-based company was China's biggest property developer in 2016,based on sales volume;revenue was 211.4 billion yuan. In 2017,Evergrande Real Estate Group achieved sales of RMB 450 billion. As of December 2021 Hui was the largest shareholder of Evergrande Group,holding nearly 60 percent of stock. In September 2023,Hui was arrested and under investigation for suspected illegal activity.
Lin Bin is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur,co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi.
Colin Huang or Huang Zheng is a Chinese businessman,investor,and philanthropist. He is the founder and former CEO of the e-commerce company Pinduoduo,which is now the largest agriculture platform in China. Huang is also the owner of at least three other limited liability Cayman companies,including Pinduoduo.
Micree Zhan or Zhan Ketuan is a Chinese electronics engineer and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of Bitmain,the world's largest computer chip company for cryptocurrency mining. In 2018,Hurun Report named him the richest cryptocurrency billionaire in the world. In 2019,Bloomberg ranked Zhan as the world's 9th richest self-made billionaire aged 40 or younger,with a net worth of US$5.2 billion.
Zhang Yiming is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012,developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform Douyin. As of March 2024,Zhang's personal wealth was estimated at US$40.2 billion,according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index,making him the second-richest person in China,after Zhong Shanshan. On November 4,2021,Zhang stepped down as CEO of ByteDance,completing a leadership handover announced in May 2021. According to Reuters,Zhang maintains over 50 percent of ByteDance's voting rights.
Eric S Yuan is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman,engineer,and the chief executive officer and founder of Zoom Video Communications,of which he owns 22%.
Tony Xu is a Chinese-American billionaire businessman and the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of DoorDash. Born in Nanjing,China,Xu immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of four. He earned degrees from the University of California,Berkeley and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Earlier in his career,Xu interned at Square,Inc.,and worked for McKinsey &Company,eBay,and PayPal. He was included in Fortune's "40 Under 40" list in 2020.
Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011. It was founded by Lei Jun and Tuck Lye Koh. The firm focuses on investing in the technology sector in China as well as other countries such as India and Indonesia. According to South China Morning Post,from January 2019 to May 2020,it was the ninth most active venture capital firm in China.
Li Xiting is a China-born Singaporean billionaire business magnate. He is the co-founder,president and co-CEO of Mindray,China's largest medical equipment manufacturer.
Xiaomi Automobile Co.,Ltd or Xiaomi Auto is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Beijing;it is a subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi.
