Zhou Hongyi
Zhou Hongyi
Zhou Hongyi was born in Henan Province on October 4, 1970. His ancestral home is Hubei Province,. Founder, chairman and CEO of 360 company, member of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, member of the Central Committee of Jiusan Society, rotating chairman of big data operation and maintenance (Network Security) Committee of all China Federation of industry and commerce, chairman of National Engineering Laboratory of big data collaborative security technology, and vice chairman of China Cyberspace Security Association.
In 1992, he graduated from the Department of computer science, School of telecommunications, Xi'an Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree. Because of his excellent performance, he was recommended to Xi'an Jiaotong University to study as a graduate student in the Department of system engineering, School of management. In 1995, he graduated with a master's degree.
Since 1995, Zhou Hongyi has been working in founder. In March 2004, Zhou Hongyi became president of Yahoo China. In August 2006, Zhou Hongyi invested in Qihoo 360 Technology Co., Ltd. and became the chairman of Qihoo 360. On March 30, 2011, Zhou Hongyi led Qihoo 360 to list on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2015, Zhou Hongyi guest starred in three bodies as an expert of military think tank. On February 28, 2018, Zhou Hongyi led 360 to return to a shares from the privatization of U.S. stocks, with the securities code of 601360.
In 2016 Hurun it rich list, Zhou Hongyi ranked 23rd with 15 billion yuan. In 2019, Forbes ranked 452 on the global list of billionaires, with a wealth value of US $4.3 billion. In October 2019, Zhou Hongyi ranked 62nd in the Hurun 100 rich list with a wealth of RMB 43 billion. Ranked 63rd on the Forbes China 400 list in 2019, with a wealth value of 33.59 billion yuan. On February 26, 2020, with a wealth of 43 billion yuan, it ranked 357 in the "2020 Shimao Shenzhen Hong Kong International Center · Hurun global rich list". On May 12, 2020, Zhou Hongyi ranked 59th in the "2020 New Fortune 500 rich list" with a wealth of 38.59 billion yuan.
Character experience
Born in Henan on October 4, 1970, he grew up in Zhengzhou.
He graduated from Zhengzhou No.9 middle school in June 1988.
In 1992, he graduated from the Department of computer science, School of telecommunications, Xi'an Jiaotong University with a bachelor's degree. Due to his excellent academic performance, he was recommended to Xi'an Jiaotong University to study as a graduate student in the Department of system engineering, School of management. He graduated as a graduate student with a master's degree in 1995.
Since 1995, Zhou Hongyi has worked in Founder group. He has successively held the posts of programmer, project director, Department Manager and general manager of business unit. He has been promoted from ordinary programmer to deputy director of R & D center and general manager of business unit.
In October 1998, Zhou Hongyi, 28, founded Beijing 3721 science and Technology Co., Ltd. (3721's name comes from "3721") in order to realize the ideal of "enabling Chinese people to access the Internet in their own mother tongue". In the same year, he launched the Chinese website, the predecessor of 3721's "real name on the Internet", which was the first Chinese Internet service. In 1999, he officially provided real name on the Internet in Chinese Internet service, the website real name service brought by the "Chinese keyword search" technology covered more than 90% of the Chinese Internet users at that time, with daily usage of more than 80 million people, and more than 600000 enterprise customers, occupying 40% of the market share of China's paid search market, occupying an absolute leading position. In 2001, 3721 company took the lead in announcing profits among Chinese Internet enterprises. In January 2004, Yahoo invested 120 million US dollars to buy Hong Kong 3721 company.
In November 2003, Yahoo announced the acquisition of 3721 company (completed the substantial contribution in the first quarter of 2004).
In March 2004, Zhou Hongyi became the president of Yahoo China, fully responsible for the strategy formulation and implementation of Yahoo and 3721 company. During Zhou Hongyi's term of office, Yahoo China launched a number of Internet services such as "one search network" and 1g free email.
In August 2005, Zhou Hongyi retired after 18 months in charge of Yahoo China.
After Zhou Hongyi left Yahoo China, he became an angel investor. As an investment partner, Mr. Zhou Hongyi formally joined IDG (international data group venture capital fund), helping many domestic small and medium-sized enterprises to obtain opportunities for rapid development and promoting the development of the whole industry. He has successively invested in venture projects of many start-up companies, and his main investment achievements include Xunlei and Discuz! , cool dog and other well-known Internet products.
As an angel investor, Zhou Hongyi set up an angel investment fund to help more innovative enterprises get development opportunities.
In August 2006, Zhou Hongyi invested in Qihu 360 Technology Co., Ltd. and became the chairman of Qihu 360. Since then, through free business model, product and technology innovation, he has subverted the traditional concept of Internet security, changed the market pattern, and rapidly grown into the largest Internet security service provider in China. One of the main products of Qihoo is 360 security guard.
On March 30, 2011, Zhou Hongyi led Qihu 360 to list on the US New York Stock Exchange. On the opening day, its stock opened at US $27, peaked at US $34.40 and closed at US $34, 134% higher than the price of US $14.5. Based on the opening price on the day of listing, Zhou Hongyi is worth US $580 million.
On September 27, 2010, 360, led by Zhou Hongyi, launched a privacy protector, saying that QQ peeps into users' privacy, and then launched the button bodyguard, which can block QQ pop ups and advertisements. 360 and Tencent thus launched a software dispute, known as the "3Q" event.
On November 21, 2010, Tencent and 360 both issued an apology statement. Tencent said that it apologized to all users who were troubled by the incident, and 360 also apologized to users, and said that Tencent was fully compatible with 360 software and website.
On December 19, 2013, the people's Court of Haidian District of Beijing made judgments on two cases of Baidu company suing Zhou Hongyi and Qihu company for infringement of the right to reputation and Tan Xiaosheng for infringement of the right to reputation, and sentenced Zhou Hongyi, Tan Xiaosheng and Qihu 360 company to lose the lawsuit, demanded Zhou Hongyi and Qihu 360 company to delete the infringing microblog, apologized for 10 days, and fined 50000 yuan. In addition, he asked Tan Xiaosheng to delete the infringing microblog, apologize for 10 days and pay a fine of 30000 yuan.
On February 24, 2014, the Supreme People's court made a final judgment on the case of Tencent v. Qihoo 360 unfair competition: it rejected Qihoo 360's appeal and upheld the judgment of the court of first instance of Guangdong high court. Qihoo 360 compensated Tencent for 5 million yuan of economic losses.
In December 2014, 360 invested $409.5 million to establish a joint venture with cool group. According to sources, Zhou Hongyi, 360 chairman, will be the CEO of the joint venture and Guo Deying, cool group chairman, will be the chairman. This is consistent with the previous information.
On March 10, 2015, 360 company confirmed that Zhou Hongyi will be the CEO of Coolpad and 360 joint venture, Guo Deying will be the chairman, and Zhou Hongyi will be resident in Shenzhen in the future.
On December 16, 2015, he attended the opening ceremony of the second world Internet Conference.
On January 15, 2016, Zhou Hongyi, chairman and CEO of 360 company, was elected as the third chairman of the first member congress and board meeting of Beijing Intellectual Property Protection Association.
On February 28, 2018, Zhou Hongyi led 360 to return to a shares from the privatization of U.S. stocks, with the securities code of 601360. After 360's return to the domestic market, it will more actively participate in the national security construction, drive China's network security technology system to be independent and controllable, consolidate the solid technical foundation of China's network power, set an example for local enterprises to play the role of capital market and practice the strategy of network power, and drive the network security industry chain to jointly cope with the increasingly complex and changeable network security situation.
In March 2018, he served as a member of the Economic Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee.
In May 2019, he served as the chairman of Beijing liujianfang Technology Co., Ltd.
On June 26, 2019, Zhou Hongyi resigned as executive director of Qihoo 360 software (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and Dong Jianming took over the post.
On September 24, 2019, the general meeting of computer security special committee of China Computer Society was held in Beijing. By voting, Zhou Hongyi, chairman and CEO of 360 company, was elected as deputy director.
On April 21, 2020, Zhou Hongyi will no longer serve as the chairman of Beijing Qibu Tianxia Technology Co., Ltd. 360 finance responded that the main body of 360 finance is "Shanghai Qiyu Information Technology Co., Ltd." Zhou Hongyi is still the chairman of 360 finance.
Member of the 13th CPPCC National Committee and member of the Economic Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee.
The candidates of national labor model and advanced workers in 2020.
In August 2020, it is proposed to build a security capability framework to deal with network security threats in the new era, with "360 security brain" and security infrastructure as the ground floor building, security expert team, security operation tactics, actual combat inspection mechanism and security interoperability standards as the operation elements.
Appointment and removal information
On May 4, 2019, the senior management of the Internet Video Company Beijing liujianfang Technology Co., Ltd. was changed, and the new chairman was Zhou Hongyi.
On January 12, 2021, Zhou Hongyi was elected deputy to the 17th People's Congress of Tianjin.
Award winning record
Social evaluation
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