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AMEC
AMEC (中微公司) is a Shanghai semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2004 by Gerald Yin Zhiyao, known for plasma etch tools serving chip lines down to 3nm.
Anji Microelectronics
Anji Microelectronics (安集科技) is a Shanghai semiconductor materials company founded in 2004 by returnee scientist Wang Shumin, listed on the STAR Market in 2019 and known for CMP slurries.
APsystems
APsystems (昱能科技) is a Chinese manufacturer of microinverters and module-level power electronics for solar, founded in 2010 in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market.
Arm China
Arm China, formally Arm Technology (China) Co. Ltd. (安谋科技), is the independent Chinese joint venture that licenses Arm's semiconductor technology and collects royalties in China.
Bitmain
Bitmain (比特大陆) is a Beijing-founded semiconductor company established in October 2013 by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan that makes ANTMINER digital currency mining servers and Sophon AI chips.
BOE Technology Group
BOE Technology Group is a Beijing-based display panel maker founded in 1993 from the state-owned Beijing Electron Tube Factory, ranked first globally in LCD shipments.
Bordrin Motor
Bordrin Motor (博郡汽车) was a Chinese electric-vehicle startup founded in Nanjing in 2016 by engineer Huang Ximing; it developed the iV6 and iV7 SUVs but produced none.
Byton
Byton (拜腾汽车) was a Chinese-German electric vehicle startup founded in 2016 by former BMW executives in Nanjing, known for its M-Byte SUV and for never delivering a production car.
Canadian Solar
Canadian Solar is a Canadian-incorporated solar photovoltaic module and battery energy storage manufacturer founded by Shawn Qu in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2001 and listed on NASDAQ since 2006.
Cao Renxian
Cao Renxian (曹仁贤), born 1968, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded solar inverter maker Sungrow Power Supply in Hefei in 1997 and chairs it today.
Carsten Breitfeld
Carsten Breitfeld (毕福康) is a German automotive engineer who led the BMW i8 program, co-founded the Chinese electric vehicle startup Byton in 2016, and later led Faraday Future.
Chang Jing
Chang Jing (昌敬), born in 1982, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the robotic vacuum maker Roborock in Beijing in 2014 and serves as its chairman and chief executive.
Chen Gang (Chinese entrepreneur)
Chen Gang (陈刚), born 1968, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and controlling shareholder of Shanghai Aiko Solar, a Shanghai-based maker of solar cells and ABC modules.
Chen Lu (semiconductor entrepreneur)
Chen Lu (陈鲁), born 1977, is a Chinese semiconductor-equipment entrepreneur who founded Skyverse Technology, a Shenzhen maker of wafer inspection and metrology equipment listed on the STAR Market in 2023.
Chen Tianshi
Chen Tianshi (陈天石), born in 1985, is a Chinese computer scientist who co-founded Cambricon Technologies in 2016 and leads the Beijing AI chip designer, becoming China's first AI chip billionaire in 2025.
Chen Weiliang
Chen Weiliang (陈维良, born 1976) is a Chinese semiconductor executive who founded the GPU developer MetaX in 2020 after thirteen years as a senior director at AMD Shanghai.
Chen Zongnian
Chen Zongnian (陈宗年), born 1965, is a Chinese engineer and executive who co-founded Hikvision in 2001 and led it as chairman until 2024, building it into the world's top video-surveillance company.
Co-founders of Xiaomi
The seven co-founders of Xiaomi besides Lei Jun, including Lin Bin, Li Wanqiang, and Liu De, who together formed the "Eight King Kongs" founding team in 2010.
Contemporary Amperex Technology
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is a Chinese manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Ningde, Fujian.
CXMT
CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies, 长鑫存储) is a Chinese semiconductor company founded in 2016 in Hefei that makes DRAM memory chips, ranking fourth in global DRAM revenue by 2026 behind Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron.
Daniel Kirchert
Daniel Kirchert (戴雷) is a German automotive executive who co-founded the Chinese EV startup Byton in Nanjing in 2016 and was its CEO from 2019 to 2020.
Ding Yongqiang
Ding Yongqiang (丁永强), born 1980 in Suizhou, Hubei, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Growatt in Shenzhen, which became the world's largest household solar inverter provider by 2021 shipments.
Dongxin Semiconductor
Dongxin Semiconductor (东芯半导体, Dosilicon) is a Shanghai-based fabless designer of small- and medium-capacity memory chips, including NAND Flash, NOR Flash, DRAM, and MCP products, founded by Jiang Xueming in 2014.
EcoFlow
EcoFlow (正浩) is a Chinese clean-energy company founded in Shenzhen in 2017 by former DJI battery engineer Bruce Wang, making portable power stations and home batteries.
Fang Yunzhou
Fang Yunzhou (方运舟) is a Chinese automotive executive who co-founded Hozon New Energy in Zhejiang in 2014 and built its Neta brand into China's best-selling EV startup by 2022.
Gao Jifan
Gao Jifan (高纪凡) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Trina Solar in Changzhou in 1997 and leads it as chairman and CEO; Forbes estimated his family's wealth at $1.6 billion in 2026.
Gao Yunfeng
Gao Yunfeng (高云峰), born in 1967, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Han's Laser in Shenzhen in 1996 and chairs the laser equipment maker, worth 15.5 billion yuan in 2026.
GCL Group
GCL Group (协鑫集团) is a Chinese clean-energy group founded in 1990 by Zhu Gongshan, organized around silicon materials for the solar industry, including granular polysilicon.
GigaDevice
GigaDevice (兆易创新) is a Beijing-based fabless semiconductor company founded by Zhu Yiming in 2005, second worldwide in SPI NOR flash and listed in Shanghai since 2016.
Ginlong Technologies
Ginlong Technologies, which sells inverters under the Solis brand, is a Chinese manufacturer of solar string and energy-storage inverters founded in 2005 in Xiangshan, Ningbo, Zhejiang.