Awards & Recognition
★Time Magazine's World's Most Influential People (2007, 2014, 2018)
★Forbes World's Most Powerful People (2015)
★Fortune Top Businessmen of the Year (2017)
★Young Global Leader award
★Top Ten Annual Economic Figures of the Year
★25 Most Powerful Business People in Asia
★One of the 30 World's Best CEOs
★Ranked first on Hurun China IT Rich List (2013)
★Fifth on Forbes China Rich List (2013)
Notable Facts
→Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Tencent, one of the world's largest technology companies
→Net worth of approximately $63-67 billion as of 2025, making him one of China's richest individuals
→Creator of WeChat, the super app with over 1.3 billion monthly users globally
→Built Tencent from instant messaging service QQ to global tech conglomerate worth over $500 billion
→Tencent is the world's largest video game publisher by revenue
→Known for maintaining a low public profile despite massive business success
→Deputy to Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress and former delegate to National People's Congress
→Graduated with Computer Science degree from Shenzhen University in 1993
→Owns extensive art collection worth $150 million and property in Hong Kong