Wang Xing

Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2008, Founder of Xiaonei.com and Fanfou.com (Beijing)

Heralded as the Mark Zuckerberg of China, Wang Xing has been awarded “Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2008”.

Wang Xing launched his first website Xiaonei.com in 2005.  Xiaonei.com has the same interface as Facebook and has become the most popular social network for college students throughout China.  Xiaonei which literally translates as “on campus”, was so successful that Wang sold the site to Oak Pacific interactive less than 12 months after launch.

Wang now manages two new sites: Hainei.com, a social network for working adults, and Fanfou.com, a microblogging service for people to stay connected through the exchange of text and photos via the Web, instant message, or mobile phone. 

Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing with a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering and from the University of Delaware with a Master’s in Computer Engineering.