Li Yanhong, male, Han nationality, person without party affiliation, born in November 1968, from Yangquan, Shanxi, currently the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu. On January 19, 2018, Robin Li became the cover character of the current Asian edition of "Times". On April 28, 2018, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the founding of Peking University, Robin Li and his wife, Dr. Ma Dongmin, announced a donation of 660 million yuan to Peking University to jointly establish the "Peking University Baidu Fund", which is mainly used to support Peking University’s leading disciplines and the intersection of artificial intelligence. Research and explore. On December 18, 2018, the Party Central Committee and the State Council awarded Robin Li the title of Pioneer of Reform and awarded the Medal of Pioneer of Reform.
In 1968, Li Yanhong was born in an ordinary family in Yangquan, Shanxi. When he was young, he was fascinated by opera and was admitted by Shanxi Yangquan Jin Opera Troupe. But in middle school, Robin Li returned to his "main occupation" and devoted himself to his homework study. In 1987, Li Yanhong was admitted to the library and information major of Peking University (ie, information management) with the first place in Yangquan. Since his junior year, Robin Li has set the goal of studying in the United States, focusing on computer science. In 1991, Robin Li received an acceptance letter from the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
After staying in school for a year, Robin Li successfully entered Panasonic for internship. "These three-month internships played a vital role in my subsequent career path choice." Li Yanhong said. Before the summer vacation of 1994, Robin Li received a letter of appointment from the Wall Street Jones subsidiary. During his three-and-a-half years on Wall Street, Robin Li served as a senior consultant for the Dow Jones subsidiary and a designer of the real-time financial information system for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. In 1997, Robin Li left Wall Street and went to Infoseek, a famous search engine company in Silicon Valley.
In 1999, Robin Li believed that China's Internet environment was mature and set off to return home. In January 2000, Robin Li rented two rooms in Peking University Resources Hotel with his first venture capital investment of 1.2 million US dollars based on the patent of "hyperchain analysis", and co-founded Baidu with his friend Mr. Xu Yong. Nine months later, venture capital firm DFJ and IDG invested another 10 million U.S. dollars in Baidu. In 2001, Robin Li persuaded shareholders on Baidu's board of directors to transform Baidu into an independent search engine website for end users, and implemented the "Lightning Plan" to implement technological upgrades to Baidu, making Baidu the world's second largest independent search engine, searching in Chinese. Ranked first in the engine.
In August 2005, Baidu was successfully listed on the Nasdaq in the United States and became one of the most closely watched listed companies in the global capital market. In 2009, Robin Li proposed the concept of box computing technology, and successively launched the "data open platform" and "application open platform" to build a new industrial ecology of the Internet. In 2013, Robin Li built China's first deep learning research institute at Baidu, becoming the first entrepreneur in China and even the world to promote cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence. In 2015, Robin Li proposed to establish a "Chinese Brain" program at the national level, with artificial intelligence as the core to seize the commanding heights of a new round of scientific and technological revolution. In 2017, Baidu took the lead in establishing the National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning Technology and Application. On January 19, 2018, Robin Li appeared on the cover of the first issue of Time Weekly in 2018 and was dubbed the "Innovator". He became the first Chinese Internet entrepreneur to be featured on the cover of the magazine and was awarded the title of "Being Helping China". Win the victory in the 21st century".