Ren Zhengfei
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ren.
Ren Zhengfei (任正非 b. 1944 in Guizhou, China (贵州)) is the president of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (华为技术有限公司), headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Forbes magazine listed Mr. Ren as the 190th richest person in China, with private assets of approximately $124 million USD[1].
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[edit] Biography
Ren's granfather was from Jiangsu province (江苏), and was as a masterchef who was an expert in curing ham in neighbouring Zhejiang province (浙江). His father (任摩逊) failed to complete university as grandfather had died a year prior to graduation.
During the Japanese occupation, his father migrated to down south to Guangzhou(广州) to work in the Communist party's arms factory as an accounts clerk. The eldest of seven children, his mother was a senior teacher at the local secondary school.
After completing secondary school, he attended Chongqing University, and then joined the army research institute to work as a military technologist.
[edit] Huawei Technologies
In 1987, Ren founded Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, a company which specializes in the development, production, sales of telecom equipment, and is its CEO. The company is a leading player in the global telecommunications market, with an annual revenue of $8.2 billion USD, and over 44,000 employees in 2006.
Time Magazine included Ren Zhengfei in its list of 100 most influential people of 2005[2].
[edit] Communist party ties
Ren Zhengfei is a former officer of the People's Liberation Army. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1958, and is member of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Among his other accomplishments, Ren is responsible for developing cooperative programs with businesses in China’s interior regions.
[edit] External links
- donews.com biography (in Chinese)
[edit] References
- ^ "The 400 Richest Chinese", Russell Flannery, Forbes Magazine, January 25, 2006.
- ^ "Ren Zhengfei Modeled After Mao", Matthew Forney, Forbes Magazine, April 18, 2005.
