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Zhang Sichuan

Zhang Sichuan (张思川) is a director of Hello Group (挚文集团), the Beijing company behind the Momo app, and was its chief operating officer until July 2026.

Zhang Siding

Zhang Siding (张巳丁) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Peking University bike-sharing startup ofo in 2014 with Dai Wei, ran its operations, and left in 2019 to found BLANK.

Zhang Wenming

Zhang Wenming (张文明, born 1984) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded the Wuhan-based game live-streaming platform DouYu, serving as co-CEO until resigning in December 2021.

Zhang Xiaolei

Zhang Xiaolei (张小雷), born 1969, is the Chinese founder of Qianbao Network, a Nanjing online platform exposed as a Ponzi scheme; he was sentenced to 15 years for fundraising fraud in 2019.

Zhang Xiaolong

Zhang Xiaolong (张小龙, known as Allen Zhang) is a Chinese software engineer who created Foxmail and WeChat and has led Tencent's Weixin Group since May 2014.

Zhang Xuan

Zhang Xuan (张旋), known in English as Xuan Zhang, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur, educated at Tsinghua University, who founded the live-streaming platform Fengyun Live, acquired by LeSports in 2016.

Zhang Zhidong

Zhang Zhidong, known as Tony Zhang (张志东), is a Chinese software engineer who co-founded Tencent with Ma Huateng in 1998 and served as Chief Technology Officer until 2014.

Zhao Weiping

Zhao Weiping (赵伟平), born 1961, is a Chinese entrepreneur known as the "fireworks king" who founded Panda Fireworks and supplied the 2008 Beijing Olympics fireworks.

Zhou Boyun

Zhou Boyun (周伯云, born 1967) is a Chinese businessman who founded Shanlin Jinrong, a Shanghai P2P lender that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors before collapsing in 2018.

Zhou Feng

Zhou Feng (周枫) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Youdao, the Beijing-based online learning company spun out of NetEase, since 2007.

Zhou Guang

Zhou Guang, known in English as Maxwell Zhou, is a Chinese autonomous-driving entrepreneur who founded DeepRoute.ai in Shenzhen in 2019 and serves as its chief executive.

Zhou Guangping

Zhou Guangping (周光平) is a Chinese hardware engineer, a former Motorola executive, who co-founded Xiaomi in 2010, led its hardware and supply chain, and resigned in 2018.

Zhou Hongyi

Zhou Hongyi (周鸿祎) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Beijing internet security company Qihoo 360, known for making antivirus free and for the 2010 3Q war with Tencent.

Zhou Jian (robotics entrepreneur)

Zhou Jian (周剑), also known as James Zhou, is a Chinese entrepreneur born in 1976 who founded UBTECH Robotics in Shenzhen in 2012 and serves as its chairman and chief executive officer.

Zhou Yahui

Zhou Yahui (周亚辉, born 1977) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded Kunlun Tech in 2008 and the Nigerian payments firm OPay, and chairs Opera.

Zhou Yingjie

Zhou Yingjie (周颖洁) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded Xingsheng Youxuan, the Changsha-headquartered community group-buying company, serving as its president and later chief executive; Fortune named her sixth on its 2021 China 40 Under 40 list.

Zhuang Chenchao

Zhuang Chenchao, also known as CC Zhuang (庄辰超), is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar.com in 2005 and served as its chief executive officer from 2011 to 2016.