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PHOTO: Rong Zhijian
Rong Zhijian 荣智健
President of CITIC Pacific Limited
Born: 1942

Biography

Rong Zhijian, male, Han nationality, was born in Shanghai and is a native of Wuxi. He graduated from Tianjin University.

Upon graduation, Rong worked as an intern in a hydraulic power plant near Changbai Mountain in Jilin Province. After that, he went to work as an intern in a hydraulic power plant at the foot of Changbai Mountain in Jilin. In 1972, Rong Zhijian returned to Beijing. Six years later, he went to Hong Kong for business. Using family funds, Rong and his cousins Rong Zhijin and Rong Zhiqian jointly established the Elcap Electronics Plant in Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong. The plant originally produced capacitors, accutrons and toys but later, it produced integrated circuits, and computer random access memory chips. In 1982, Rong Zhijian invested in the United States with funds earned from the plant. In the same year, he cooperated with a number of engineers that previously worked in IBM to establish the California-based Automation Design Co. Ltd., which was the first company specializing in computer aided design software in the United States. In 1986, Rong Zhijian joined his father at CITIC and became vice president and general manager of CITIC (Hong Kong).

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