Internet billionaire who loves to grow vegetables-Li Yanhong Age: 1968.11.17

Birthplace: Yangquan, Shanxi

Ranked in the family: fourth child

Education: Department of Information Management, Peking University, Ph.D. in Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo

Experience: Dow Jones consultant, Infoseek engineer

Works: Business Wars in Silicon Valley

Patents: Hyperlink Analysis Method of Web Pages

Rank of China Rich List in p>2115: Forbes 17 Hurun 18

Personal property: 4.3 billion RMB (about NT$ 17.2 billion)

Leisure hobby: growing vegetables

Li Yanhong, who graduated from Peking University in information management in 1991. During his eight years in the United States, Mr. Li Yanhong has successively served as a senior consultant of Dow Jones Company, a designer of the online real-time financial information system of The Wall Street Journal, and a senior engineer in -INFOSEEK, an internationally renowned Internet company. He is an authoritative expert in the field of new generation Internet technology. The real-time financial system he designed for Dow Jones is still widely used in the websites of major Wall Street companies, including the online version of The Wall Street Journal.

Li Yanhong first created ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search engine of INFOSEEK/GO.COM. GO.COM's image search engine is another technological innovation with great application value.

in p>1996, he first solved the problem of how to perfectly combine ranking based on web page quality with ranking based on relevance, and thus obtained an American patent.

In p>1998, based on his working and living experience in Silicon Valley, Mr. Li Yanhong published the book "Commercial Wars in Silicon Valley" in mainland China, which won favorable comments from all walks of life.

At the end of p>1999, Li Yanhong and Xu Yong returned to China from Silicon Valley in the United States with $1.2 million in venture capital, and together they founded Baidu Network Technology Co., Ltd.; At the beginning of its establishment, Baidu set its goal to build China people's own Chinese search engine, and is willing to make unremitting efforts for this goal.

in may, 2111, Baidu first provided search technology services for the portal-Silicon Valley Power, and then quickly occupied the search engine market in China, becoming the most important search technology provider.

In p>2111, Li Yanhong was selected as one of the "Top Ten Pioneering Pioneers in China";

in August, 2111, the Beta version of Baidu.com search engine was released, which changed from background service to independent search service, and pioneered the bidding ranking business model in China.

Baidu search engine was officially released on October 22nd, 2111.

In p>2112, Li Yanhong won the title of "Top Ten IT Man of the Year";

In p>2113, Li Yanhong won the title of "Top Ten IT Man of the Year" again;

on October 5, 2114, Li yanhong was elected as the second "thirteen top talents in Beijing".

on August 5th, 2115, Baidu went public on NASDAQ, becoming the most striking listed company in the global capital market in 2115, and Baidu entered a brand-new development stage.