Chinese Billionaire : Zhao Weiguo
Zhao Weiguo leads Tsinghua Unigroup, an associate of the country’s Tsinghua University, and also has been the front man in the country’s efforts to build up the country’s semiconductor industry.Zhao is a Tsinghua University alum.
His net worth is $ 1.02 B as of 5/13/17.
Zhao Weiguo, chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup, is one of the outstanding representatives of China’s new generation science and technology-oriented entrepreneurs. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.
Zhao joined Tsinghua Unigroup in 1996, taking the post as the deputy general-manager of the automation engineering department. In the following year, he took the office of general-manager in Tongfang Electronic Science and Technology Co Ltd. In 2004, he founded Jiankun Group, which was engaging in investment in the fields such as IT, natural gas and real estate and became a stockholder of Tsinghua Unigroup with 49 percent share in 2009. He has served as the president and chairman of Tsinghua Unigroup.
Tsinghua Unigroup has remarkable achievements during his leading term. In accordance with a strategy “from chips to cloud”, the group has spent nearly $10 billion to acquire global-influential IT companies such as Spreadtrum, RDA Microelectronics, and H3C Group, and has bought a share of Western Digital, a giant player of digital information in the world. As a result, Tsinghua Unigroup leaps to be a top Chinese science and technology company.
Zhao is also known for his role as a social activist and philanthropist, who has already donated over $100 million in total to Chinese education to date.
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