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Ren Zhengfei
Ren Zhengfei is the founder and chief executive of Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications-equipment and semiconductor company he established in Shenzhen in 1987. A former engineer in the People's Liberation Army's engineering corps, he built Huawei into one of the world's largest networking-equipment makers; the company's Ascend chips have become central to China's domestic AI-hardware effort.