Li Yanhong (1968- )

Li Yanhong, the co-founder and CEO of Baidu, China's biggest search engine, is a Yangquan native in Shanxi province.

He studied information management at Peking University and computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He founded Baidu with Eric Xu in 2000, and has been the CEO since 2004. The company was listed on NASDAQ in 2005, the first of its kind in China.