An enterprising 19-year-old student in China heads a start-up tech company and is also a philanthropist who donated 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) to sanitation workers at his school.
Wei Siyuan graduated from Baoan Middle School in Shenzhen, southern China’s Guangdong province, last year and was admitted to Hunan University.
He also has another identity: the chief executive officer of a company that develops unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) powered equipment.
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As a result, he has earned the nickname: “school uniform CEO”.
When his schoolmates were working hard towards a good university, Wei started the company with two friends who had worked together since junior secondary school.
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