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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Ranked 49th on Fortune's 2023 list of China's Most Influential Business Leaders
★Included in Forbes China's 100 Young Overseas Chinese Elites list
★Chinese Business Youth Leader award at the Jinhai Award
★Listed on Jiemian News's 2022 Super CEO list
Notable Facts
→Born in Shenyang, China in 1980, holds New Zealand passport
→MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
→Led construction of Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory in record 10 months
→Oversaw Tesla's Asia-Pacific operations before global promotion in April 2023
→Received over 520,000 stock options worth hundreds of millions in 2025
→Known for sleeping at factory during COVID lockdowns to maintain production
→Moved between Austin, Texas and Shanghai as Tesla's 'problem solver'
→Described as highest-profile Tesla executive after Elon Musk
→Lives modestly in government-subsidized housing near factories
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