Robin Zeng

 ( 1968 Births ) 

Robin Zeng Yuqun (born 1968) is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the battery manufacturer CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology), and a vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

As of 2025, Zeng is worth approximately US$ 37.9 billion and is the 42th wealthiest person in the world according to both Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Early life Zeng is from Fujian Province. He earned a marine engineering degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an MSc in electronics and information engineering from South China University of Technology in 2001, and a PhD in physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006.

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Career Zeng worked at a state-owned shipbuilding company in Fujian Province early in his career. He later joined an electronic parts factory after graduation where he worked for 10 years. He then co-founded Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) in 1999 with two former colleagues. The company produced lithium polymer batteries for digital gadgets, including iPhones, according to a Financial Times report in 2018. In 2005, ATL was acquired by Japan's TDK, but Zeng continued as a manager for ATL.

In 2012, Zeng and vice-chairman Huang Shilin spun-off the electric vehicle battery operations of ATL into a new company CATL, which manufactures lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, and became a world leader in the following years.Tyler-Dudley, Davis, et al. " CATL: China’s Battery King." May 6, 2021 In 2017, CATL went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In 2024, CATL ventured into renewable energy, Electrical grid and electrical energy storage systems.

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