Ma Huateng (October 29, 1971 -), born in Basuogang, Dongfang City, Hainan Island, is from Chaoyang County, Guangdong (now Chaonan District, Shantou City). He is the current chairman of the board of directors of Tencent Company in Guangdong Shenzhen and CEO and current deputy to the National People's Congress. In 1984, he moved to Shenzhen from Hainan with his family and studied at Shenzhen Middle School. Ma Huateng graduated from the Computer Science Department of Shenzhen University.

Ma Huateng founded Tencent in November 1998. His company's representative product, Tencent QQ, is one of the most influential personal online instant messaging software in mainland China. He is generally called the "Father of QQ".

Biography

In October 1971, Ma Huateng was born in Basuo Port, Dongfang County (now Dongfang City), Hainan Island.

In 1984, Ma Huateng moved to Shenzhen with his parents.

From 1989 to 1993, Ma Huateng studied computer science at Shenzhen University.

After graduating from Shenzhen University in 1993, he joined Runxun Communications Development Co., Ltd. and worked as a software engineer focusing on paging software development until he became the director of the development department.

In 1998, Ma Huateng founded Tencent Computer Systems Co., Ltd.

In 2004, he won the CCTV 2004 Economic Personality of the Year Award and his net worth has reached 898 million yuan.

In 2009, he was elected as China’s Economic Business Leader of the Decade.

In 2009, Ma Huateng purchased three full-floor duplex units in Rooms A, B and C on the 57th and 58th floors of Tower 3 of Tai Hang Mingmen (Residential) for HK$157 million, with an area of ??7183 square feet. , price per square foot is 21,857 yuan.

In 2010, he ranked 249th on the Forbes list of richest people and ranked 6th among mainland China's richest people.

On May 14, 2010, "2010 New Fortune 500 Rich List" ranked fifth with assets of 33.62 billion yuan.

In 2013, he was elected as a deputy to the National People’s Congress.

In 2013, "Finance Weekly" released the "3000 Chinese Family Wealth List" for the fifth time, and Ma Huateng topped the list of the richest man with a net worth of 46.7 billion yuan.

In 2013, he ranked 3rd on the Hurun Rich List with 62 billion yuan, and ranked 5th on the Forbes China Rich List with 62.2 billion yuan.

On April 19, 2016, Ma Huateng donated 100 million Tencent shares to establish a charity fund, with a total market value of HK$16.5 billion.

On August 7, 2017, Tencent’s market value reached US$388.35 billion. The market value of Alibaba exceeded US$387.8 billion. According to Forbes' real-time rich list, Ma Huateng (18th) surpassed Jack Ma (20th) to become the richest man in China.

In February 2018, Ma Huateng became the richest Chinese in the world with a net worth of 295 billion in the 2018 Hurun Global Rich List.

Family

Father: Ma Chenshu, a member of the Communist Party of China, a cadre going south, a technical secondary school degree, an economist, and once served as the accountant of the Eighth Hainan Port Authority of the Ministry of Transport , statistician, chief of planning section, deputy director, manager and general manager of the planning and finance department of Shenzhen Shipping Corporation, deputy commander-in-chief of Shenzhen Yantian Port Construction Headquarters, deputy general manager of Shenzhen Yantian Port Group Co., Ltd., was appointed in 1997 He was elected as a director of a listed company in Yantian Port and is now retired.

Mother: Huang Huiqing, the first chairman of Tencent. She owned 60% of the shares when the company was founded. She has also retired.

Wife: Wang Danting (1977-), born in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province; graduated from the Music Department of Harbin Normal University in 1998 and stayed at the school to teach after graduation; met Ma Huateng on QQ in May 2004. They met and fell in love during a business trip in August; they had a flash marriage in February 2005 [15]; the couple had a daughter, Ma Manlin.

Daughter: Ma Manlin (January 9, 2002 [source request]), born in Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province.

Plagiarism and Learning

Under Ma Huateng’s leadership, a large number of Tencent’s products have some traces of imitation. Some people in the industry in mainland China are quite disapproving of Ma Huateng’s style, such as Alibaba Jack Ma, CEO of Baba Group, believes: "The biggest problem with Tencent Paipai now is that there is no innovation, everything is copied, and its game business has swallowed up countless Chinese people."

Wang Zhidong, the former president and CEO of Sina.com, even harshly criticized: "Ma Huateng is a well-known plagiarism king in the industry, and he plagiarizes blatantly and openly..." However, Ma Huateng views plagiarism this way: "Plagiarism can be understood as learning. It is a kind of absorption, a kind of learning from each other's strengths to make up for one's weaknesses."

Personal honor? Award time->Award description

2004 CCTV China Economic Figure of the Year Award->sponsored by China Central Television (the 12 people/piece of *** Award, 1 New Talent Award)

The world’s most influential business person in 2004 by Time Magazine and Cable News Network -> Time Magazine and Cable News Network (25 people were elected)

2006 Global Young Leaders-.International Economic Organization->Davos Economic Forum

2006 The 8th "Guangdong Youth May 4th Medal"-> Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese *** Youth League (10 young people were selected in this session)

The 4th "China IT Top Ten Financial Figures and Top Ten Marketing Planners" in 2006 -> This session was organized by "Finance and Economics" Hosted by "The Times" and "Financial Literature and Art", co-organized by Tencent and others

2006 The Most Influential Business Leaders of "Chinese Entrepreneur" -> Hosted by "Chinese Entrepreneur" (25 people were elected that year)

2007 "China Economic Weekly" China's 30 Years of Reform and Opening Up Economic Hundreds List -> Sponsored by "China Economic Weekly" and co-organized by People's Daily Overseas Edition

In 2007, "Time" magazine selected This year's "100 Most Authoritative and Influential People in the World"->The list divides 100 people into five categories: artists and entertainers, scientists and thinkers, leaders and revolutionaries, builders and giants, heroes and pioneers< /p>

2009 CCTV China Economic Person of the Year "Business Leader of the Ten Years" -> Provided by CCTV (CCTV Person of the Year subsidiary award, 10 people were selected)

2012 Donation to Forbes 2012 "China No. 11 on the Forbes China Charity List -> This list is a subsidiary list of Forbes China Rich List

Donations in 2013 ranked No. 6 on Forbes' 2013 "China Charity List" -> This list is a list of Forbes A subsidiary list of the China Rich List

The 2013 Hurun Rich List ranked second among the "Top Ten Innovative Entrepreneurs in China in 2013" This list is a subsidiary list of the Hurun Rich List

Hurun The "2013 Hurun IT and Entertainment Rich List" IT No. 1 on the Rich List -> This list is a subsidiary list of the Hurun Rich List