Liu Ruopeng
Chinese entrepreneur
Liu Ruopeng (Chinese: 刘若鹏) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the conglomerate Kuang-Chi. He is also a member of the Chinese Communist Party and a National People's Congress deputy.2
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Born Sep 1983.1
Net worth $1.3B.9 Richest people
Companies
- Kuang-Chi (China)Founder8
Early life and education
Liu has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Zhejiang University. He has a master's degree and a doctorate from Duke University.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur.6
- Date not recordedFounded Kuang-Chi (China)4
- Date not recordedNational People's Congress deputy5
While a PhD student at Duke University, Liu allegedly stole intellectual property from a United States Department of Defense-funded laboratory and passed it to Chinese researchers. Liu was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), but ultimately was not charged with a crime. The incident is the subject of a book by ProPublica senior editor Daniel Golden, Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities.
In 2015, Liu bought a controlling stake in the loss making New Zealand company Martin Aircraft Company, makers of the yet to be commercially viable Martin Jetpack.
He is the president of the Shenzhen-based Kuang-Chi Institute of Advanced Technology and the chairman of Hong Kong-listed KuangChi Science.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipPeople's Republic of China7
Liu Ruopeng lives in Shenzhen, China.
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- 1WikidataLiu Ruopeng on Wikidata
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- 8WikidataKuang-Chi (China), Founder
- 9WikidataNet worth