Li Zhenguo (born 5 January 1968) is a Chinese billionaire and businessman, the founder and the president of
LONGi Green Energy Technology
LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. ( zh, 隆基绿能科技股份有限公司) or LONGi Group (), formerly Xi'an Longi Silicon Materials Corporation, is a major Chinese manufacturers of photovoltaic solar modules and a developer of solar powe ...
, which specializes on
photovoltaic
Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...
solar modules
A solar cell panel, solar electric panel, photo-voltaic (PV) module, PV panel or solar panel is an assembly of photovoltaic solar cells mounted in a (usually rectangular) frame, and a neatly organised collection of PV panels is called a photo ...
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After graduating from
Lanzhou University, Li Zhenguo started working at the Huashan Semiconductor Materials Factory. Afterwards, he served as the operating director of Shanxi Wenxi Xinda Electronic Parts Factory. Later he continued his career as the director of the crystal base of Xi'an University of Technology factory and the general manager of Xi'an Lijing Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. Li Zhenguo found LONGi in 2000 together with his classmates from the Lanzhou University and his wife, Li Xiyan. Initially, the company focused on supplying reprocessed silicon materials and only later the founders decided to focus on solar. As of 2022, the company is the world's biggest
monocrystalline silicon
Monocrystalline silicon, more often called single-crystal silicon, in short mono c-Si or mono-Si, is the base material for silicon-based discrete components and integrated circuits used in virtually all modern electronic equipment. Mono-Si also ...
solar maker. In 2021, it declared its intentions to manufacture overseas plants, including the ones in
India,
Saudi Arabia, and the
US that would function in addition to the already existing factories in China,
Malaysia and
Vietnam with more than employees.
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Li Zhenguo & family made the 2022 Forbes Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $12.9 billion and occupied the 142nd position.
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References
1968 births
Living people
Chinese billionaires
20th-century Chinese businesspeople
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
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