Lei Jun

Lei Jun

Lei Jun, male, Han nationality, was born on December 16, 1969 in Xiantao City, Hubei Province. He has no party affiliation, university degree, Bachelor of Science degree and senior engineer. Famous angel investor in Chinese mainland.

As a representative of China's Internet and a global e-commerce innovation leader of the year, Lei Jun has won many honors at home and abroad, such as China's economic person of the year, top 10 financial and intellectual leaders, China's Internet person of the year, and was elected as Forbes (Asian Version) 2014 business person of the year. At the same time, he also serves as the chairman of three listed companies, including Jinshan, YY and Cheetah mobile. Lei Jun was a member of the Haidian District CPPCC Committee for two terms. He was elected a deputy to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress in 2012 and a deputy to the National People's Congress in February 2013. In December 2017, he won the 2017 "light of quality" quality person of the year award.

Currently, he is deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, vice chairman of all China Federation of industry and commerce, vice chairman of Beijing Federation of industry and commerce, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Technology Co., Ltd., and chairman of Beijing Jinshan Software Co., Ltd. Top 10 economic figures of the year in 2017.

In October 2018, he was recommended by the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and all China Federation of industry and commerce as one of the 100 outstanding private entrepreneurs in 40 years of reform and opening up. In March 2019, it ranked 143rd on the Forbes Global list of billionaires in 2019 with a wealth of US $9.6 billion. On August 29, 2019, he won the title of "excellent builder of socialism with Chinese characteristics". In 2019, Hurun ranked 29th in the list. On November 7, Forbes released the list of China's richest people in 2019, ranking Lei Jun 25th, with a wealth value of 61.52 billion yuan. On February 26, 2020, with a wealth of 102 billion yuan, it ranked 102nd in "2020 Shimao Shenzhen Hong Kong International Center · Hurun global rich list". In December 2020, Beijing won the title of labor model.

Biography of characters

Study experience

Lei Jun was born in Xiantao, Hubei Province in 1969. In 1987, he graduated from Mianyang middle school (now Xiantao middle school in Hubei Province). In the same year, Lei Jun was admitted to the computer department of Wuhan University. After entering the University, Lei Jun, who is strict with himself, began to take many senior courses. It took only two years for Lei Jun to complete all the credits (Wuhan University was one of the earliest universities in China to implement the credit system at that time. According to the requirements of the University, he could graduate as long as he completed a certain amount of credits), and even completed the graduation project of the University.

After finishing college, Lei Jun began to break into the computer market. In 1992, Lei Jun and his colleagues co authored the book "in depth DOS programming". Over the next two years, Lei Jun has been involved in a wide range of fields, including encryption software, anti-virus software, financial software, CAD software, Chinese system and various practical tools. He has also worked with Wang Guoguo in circuit board design, soldering circuit boards, and even worked as a hacker for a period of time to decrypt various kinds of software. Over the past two years, Lei Jun and the owners of various computer companies have become acquaintances, and become well-known figures in Wuhan Electronics Street.

Start a business for the first time

Influenced by the entrepreneurial story in the fire of Silicon Valley, when he was a senior in University, Lei Jun began to establish three color company with his classmates Wang Guoguo and Li Ruxiong.

At that time, the product was a kind of imitation of Jinshan Hanka, but then a company larger than them appeared and pirated their products. Moreover, this company could make the same kind of products more in quantity and lower in price.

Three color company is struggling, not to mention the operation of the company, even if they are facing the situation of waiting for no rice in their life. Six months later, the company decided to dissolve. When counting the company's assets, Lei Jun and Wang Quanguo got a 286 computer and printer, and Li Ruxiong got a 386 computer.

During working in trice company, Lei Jun cooperated with Wang Guoguo to write the first official work of Lei Jun, bitlok encryption software, and set up Huang Meigui group. In addition, he also used Pascal to write immune 90, which won the first prize of scientific and technological achievements of college students in Hubei Province.

People in Jinshan

At the beginning of 1992, Lei Jun joined Jinshan company. He has successively served as manager of Beijing Development Department of Jinshan company, deputy general manager of Zhuhai Company and general manager of Beijing Jinshan software company.

In August 1998, he served as the general manager of Jinshan company; at the end of 2000, after the joint-stock restructuring of Jinshan company, he served as the president of Beijing Jinshan Software Co., Ltd.

Lei Jun entered Jinshan at the age of 22 and worked until he was 38. He worked in Jinshan for 16 years and completed the IPO of Jinshan.

On December 20, 2007, Lei Jun resigned as CEO of Jinshan.

On July 11, 2011, the nomination committee of Jinshan software board nominated Lei Jun as the chairman of the board of directors. This proposal was unanimously approved by the board of directors, and Lei Jun officially took over Jinshan software.

On March 24, 2020, Jinshan Office held the sixth meeting of the second board of directors, deliberated and passed the proposal on appointing the honorary chairman of the company, and agreed to appoint Lei Jun as the honorary chairman of the company.

On June 20, 2020, a number of changes occurred in Beijing Jinshan Software Co., Ltd., Lei Jun resigned as executive director and Zou Tao took over.

Angel investors

As an angel investor, Lei Jun has invested in more than 20 innovative enterprises, including excellence, Xiaoyao, Shangpin, lexun community, UC Youshi, DuoWan game (huanju era), lakara, VANCL, letao, keniu and Haofu.

In 2011, Lei Jun and Xu Dalai, who hope to "institutionalize angel investment", jointly set up Shunwei capital, an angel investment fund.

Founded Xiaomi

In April 2010, Lei Jun, together with Lin bin, former vice president of Google China Engineering Research Institute (who once participated in the establishment of Microsoft Asia Engineering Institute and served as engineering director), Zhou Guangping, former senior director of Motorola Beijing R & D Center (who presided over the design of "Ming" series mobile phones), Liu De, former director of Industrial Design Department of Beijing University of science and technology, Li Wanqiang, former general manager of Kingsoft Ciba, and former general manager of development of Microsoft China Academy of engineering Jianhuang Jiangji and Hongfeng, the former senior product manager of Google China, jointly founded Xiaomi technology and announced its own brand Xiaomi mobile phone in August 2011.

Now Xiaomi company has many digital products and accessories, such as Xiaomi mobile phone, Xiaomi 1s, Xiaomi 2, Xiaomi 2S, Xiaomi 2a, Hongmi mobile phone, Hongmi note, Xiaomi box, Xiaomi 3, Xiaomi TV, Xiaomi TV 2, Xiaomi tablet, Xiaomi router, Xiaomi mobile power supply, Xiaomi portable WiFi, MI key, etc.

As of the latest round of financing in August 2013, Xiaomi's valuation has exceeded $10 billion. According to this calculation, Xiaomi technology will become the fourth largest Internet company in China after Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. Among the hardware companies in China today, Xiaomi technology is second only to Lenovo Group.

Setting up scholarships

In 1998, Lei Jun was employed as an honorary professor by Wuhan University. Lei Jun set up a "take-off scholarship" in Wuhan University. Later, he continued to set up a "Lei Jun scholarship" with a total amount of 360000 yuan in his alma mater on the basis of 140000 yuan of the "take-off scholarship" which was originally set up and awarded for eight years, in order to reward students with excellent character and learning.

Elected deputy to the National People's Congress

In 2013, Lei Jun was elected deputy to the National People's Congress of the people's Republic of China, and expressed the hope that he could promote certain reform and adjustment of the company law within his five-year term of office, so as to make it more in line with international standards. In fact, Lei Jun is also an old hand in participating in and discussing politics. He was a member of the Haidian District CPPCC Committee for two terms and was elected a deputy to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress in 2012. Participated in the first World Internet Conference. In December 2017, he was elected deputy to the 15th people's Congress of Beijing.

In March 2015, Lei Jun submitted "suggestions on continuing to revise the company law and improving the entrepreneurial environment" at the national two sessions.

In March 2016, at the fourth session of the 12th National People's Congress, Lei Jun said: "patents are the rules of the game for the whole mobile phone industry, and Xiaomi will deal with patent infringement according to the rules of the market game."

On January 30, 2018, at the first session of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress, he was elected as Beijing's deputy to the 13th National People's Congress.

Investment in building

On October 20, 2016, at the Beijing headquarters of Jinshan software company, Lei Jun, as an alumnus of Wuhan University, donated 99.9999 million yuan to his alma mater for the construction of science and technology building.

Achievement and honor

In 1998, he was employed as an honorary professor by Wuhan University;

In 1999, 2000 and 2002, he won the honor of top ten it figures in China;

At the end of 2000, he was employed as a consultant of Beijing municipal government;

In 2001, he was elected vice president of Beijing Software Industry Association;

In 2002, Lei Jun was elected as "the first top ten young entrepreneurs in the capital";

In 2002, he was the director of desktop office suite, a major special project of 863 program software;

In 2003, he was employed as honorary professor by Zhengzhou Institute of engineering;

In 2003, he was responsible for the 863 program computer software and hardware technology project: general engine research and demonstration product development of online games;

In 2003, he was elected as "excellent entrepreneur of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park";

In 2003, he was awarded the third outstanding alumni of Wuhan University;

In 2005, it was selected as one of the top ten games in China

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