Xu Jinghong: Champion of young entrepreneurs and high-tech startups

China

6 min read

Dec 02, 2020

By Wang Xiao'e

Under Xu Jinghong’s leadership, Tsinghua Holdings grew its assets sevenfold and incubated over 10,000 businesses. In his new role as VC investor, Xu wants to nurture startups into future global leaders

Xu Jinghong might be best known for increasing the total assets of Tsinghua Holdings, the tech transfer arm of the prestigious Tsinghua University, to RMB 430bn from RMB 58bn during the six years while he was at the helm. By the time Xu left the company in 2018 to set up his own VC firm, Tsinghua Holdings had grown into a global heavyweight with about 2,000 firms and 14 listed companies in its portfolio, and an R&D capacity ranked third among China’s top 500 enterprises.
Xu first came across Tsinghua University in 1979 in a documentary that he watched on a 9-inch black-and-white TV. He...

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