男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影

Top Biz News

Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-06 17:06

Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms
Visitors walk by NetEase's booth at the China 6th International Digital Content Expo in this photo taken in Beijing on Oct 23, 2008. [Asianewsphoto]

He may be a billionaire, but soft-spoken William Ding, founder of Chinese online gaming giant NetEase.com, feels as comfortable on the farm with his pigs as he does in the boardroom.

The publicity shy 38-year-old juggles his time between China's No 3 online game operator and a pig rearing business he started in February, in search of balance and quiet as the nation's raucous online community develops at breakneck speed.

The bespectacled bachelor, China's 23rd richest man worth $2.25 billion according to Forbes, was one of China's earliest Internet pioneers when he founded NetEase in 1997 as a tiny search engine.

More than a decade and several controversies later, NetEase is one of China's most prominent names on the Web and Ding has acquired celebrity status in China, pursued everywhere like a rock star by packs of reporters and admirers.

"Ding has encouraged a whole generation of young people to want to enter the Internet business," said Internet entrepreneur Edward Liu, who, along with Ding, attended one of China's biggest Internet conferences this week in Beijing.

"They all want to be like him."

Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms
Ding Lei 

Ding belongs to an elite group of Chinese mavericks who have made billions on the Internet in China, the world's largest market with over 300 million users. He sits alongside others like Jack Ma, head of Internet giant Alibaba Group and Robin Li, founder of online search leader Baidu.

Born in China's Zhejiang province, which churns out some of the country's most famous entrepreneurs, Ding was schooled as an engineer and worked for several companies including Sybase before founding NetEase.

The company lost its No 2 status in China's online game sector to up-and-comer Tencent in the second quarter.

Ding, whose Chinese name means "solid" or "sturdy," has needed those qualities to weather a non-stop stream of controversies in China's rough-and-tumble Internet market.

Early on, NetEase faced the possibility of delisting after it failed to turn in its annual report. It also saw its shares plunge in late 2003 as China embarked on a campaign to clean up pornographic mobile content.

More recently, NetEase has been caught in the crossfire of a government turf war that has threatened to put the brakes on one of its most promising new gaming titles, World of Warcraft.

A source close to Ding said the taciturn executive is in a real bind over the tussle and hopes the fighting ends soon.

"He is very principled and won't do anything illegal to make things easier for NetEase," said the source, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter. "We are just waiting it out."

Related readings:
Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms Battle breaks out over online game WoW
Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms NetEase ordered to stop charging users as WoW faces uncertain fate
Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farms Netease wins 3-year license for online game
Web tycoon thrives on portals, pig farmsRaising 'green' pigs online a hit

Ding, whose casual attire in jeans and sneakers sets him apart at many of the suit-filled conferences he attends, retains his calm by finding solace in activities like his new pig farm.

This week at the Internet conference in Beijing, a cartoon on one notice board depicted a beaming Ding, holding one of Mao's little red books in his right hand and a herd of pigs in the background.

"This is not an investment for NetEase or a way to make extra money, I hope that it will increase food product safety and work opportunities for rural folk," Ding said in an interview shortly after starting the farm.

His aim is to raise the 10,000 hogs in a healthy, more respectful and less intensive environment than a typical Chinese livestock farm.

"He respects the natural law of things and believes that if it is not followed there will be negative consequences," the source close to Ding said.

主站蜘蛛池模板: 长泰县| 宁南县| 崇礼县| 乐陵市| 华安县| 哈巴河县| 苏州市| 永仁县| 布尔津县| 秦安县| 巍山| 新疆| 孟村| 剑阁县| 漠河县| 盐亭县| 湖口县| 八宿县| 周至县| 满洲里市| 靖安县| 彝良县| 泸定县| 濮阳市| 汝城县| 尖扎县| 岑溪市| 吴旗县| 安阳县| 金塔县| 绥棱县| 赤壁市| 定结县| 河北省| 丰镇市| 扶余县| 乌兰察布市| 星座| 搜索| 龙川县| 长岭县| 高雄县| 周口市| 肥乡县| 保山市| 鸡西市| 贺州市| 盐源县| 玛沁县| 太湖县| 红安县| 澄城县| 遂宁市| 温州市| 永安市| 积石山| 格尔木市| 巴中市| 莆田市| 个旧市| 绥中县| 通江县| 类乌齐县| 大庆市| 苗栗县| 石林| 塘沽区| 科技| 辽阳市| 瑞昌市| 临安市| 海兴县| 龙里县| 乃东县| 塔河县| 贺州市| 綦江县| 土默特左旗| 龙江县| 襄城县| 景德镇市| 崇左市|