Zhang Xiaolong(张小龙), born on December 3, 1969 in Dongkou county, Shaoyang city, Hunan province, China ，founder of Foxmail, founder of WeChat, senior vice President of Tencent Company.

Zhang Xiaolong graduated from the department of telecommunications of Huazhong University of science and technology with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree respectively. He has developed a domestic email client, Foxmail, and joined Tencent to develop tencent WeChat, known as "the father of WeChat", and was named as "China's innovator in 2012" by the Wall Street Journal. He is mainly responsible for the management of the r&d department of Tencent company in Guangzhou, and also participate in the management and review of major innovation projects of Tencent.

Zhang xiaolong was born on December 3, 1969 in Dongkou county, Shaoyang city, Hunan province.

In 1987, he was admitted to Huazhong University of science and technology (formerly Huazhong institute of technology).

He graduated in 1994 with a master's degree.

In the same year, He worked in Guangzhou and engaged in software development.

Since then, he has developed a good domestic E-mail client software, Foxmail.

In January 1997, FoxMail1.0beta was released and announced at winsite.

On April 18, 2000, Zhang Xiaolong sold Foxmail to Boda Company for 12 million RMB and became vice President of the company.

On March 16, 2005, Tencent acquired Foxmail software, and Zhang Xiaolong joined Tencent.

He was the general manager of Guangzhou r&d department.

On November 20, 2010, Tencent WeChat was officially approved by Zhang xiaolong.

On August 2, 2011, Zhang xiaolong, senior vice President for Tencent company, responsible for the management of Tencent company research and development department in Guangzhou, at the same time take part in the management of the company major innovation project and review work.

In August 2012, Tencent WeChat launched version 4.2.

Since WeChat was first released, it has amassed 200 million users in less than two years.

On July 30, 2013, after a year of cooperation, WeChat and China Unicom jointly launched the "woo-weixin card" to realize the cooperation between OTT and the operator.

At the same time, Tencent, the owner of WeChat, has injected a dose of stabilizer, because it represents that WeChat has not faced the "differentiated charging" problem before facing the previous heat theory.

On the evening of May 6, 2014, Tencent company announced to adjust organization structure, set up WeChat enterprise group, by Zhang xiaolong President WeChat enterprise group (level of senior executive vice President), WeChat enterprise group of the leadership of the work, report to the company President Mr Liu.

On February 11, 2015, He was selected as the winner of "2014 China Internet year person".

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At the end of 2012, He was selected by the Chinese version of the Wall Street journal as the science and technology winner of the 2012 China creative people award.

By the Chinese ministry of science newspaper, the China association for science and technology science, such as at the Chinese academy of science and technology news host the "2013 China science news of the year" selection activities officially revealed on January 24, 2014 night, xiao-long zhang is one of the 10 winners.

On February 11, 2015, zhang Xiaolong was selected as the "2014 China Internet person of the year" event.

On May 11, 2017, Zhang Xiaolong, "father of WeChat", was awarded "outstanding alumnus of huazhong university of science and technology".

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"2013 news of the year of science in China" judging panel:

17 years ago, Foxmail was born in his hands, benefiting 4 million users.

Six years ago, he led the team to innovate, and in the pursuit of a seven-star product to rebuild the QQ mailbox, the product was brought back to life;

Three years ago, he successfully developed the epoch-making product of WeChat and created the China mobile Internet market.

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In 2013, he continued to improve WeChat, WeChat payment of wind, and hundreds of millions of users all over the world.

he is a natural perfectionist, the product is constantly updated and iterative, and the user experience is close to the limit.

He has built an Internet product for all ages.

He believed in simplicity and beauty, and he advocated subversive thinking.

He is the WeChat developer, tencent senior vice President ,He’s name is Zhang Xiaolong.

The most interesting people in the eyes of the students.

During the period of school, Zhang Xiaolong interest hobby is very extensive, no matter what play, as long as a little practice, master is always at the amateur level, the game, table tennis, tennis, bowling, computer games, play is always one of the most powerful in the surrounding people.

In addition to playing, he also has excellent academic performance.

"He was the first of us to learn C, when C was just born."

Apart from the software, Zhang Xiaolong is also good at hardware.

A graduate tutor evaluated Zhang Xiaolong, "a young man who likes to tamper with computers and lie-ins."

In the autumn of 1994, Zhang Xiaolong, just 24 years old, graduated from Huazhong university of science and technology.

Luckily, he soon got a good chance to work in the telecommunications agency.

This job of iron rice bowl, let a lot of friends around be very envious, but Zhang Xiaolong does not think.

Every time he saw the government buildings, he felt "a kind of suffocation from the top of his head", so he gave up the iron bowl of the telecommunications department and resolutely threw himself into the vigorous Internet industry.

Most of the early Internet entrepreneurs choose one area do a product, such as Ma Huateng do social software QQ, Li Yanhong do search engine baidu, Zhang Xiaolong start, but hardly anyone could imagine, all by one person can make a good software like Foxmail.

In 1997 as "PC" reporter, then the founder of Duowan Software, Li Xueling once described: "as long as you stand in Huang Zhuang intersection, Shouting, I'm Foxmail Zhang Xiaolong, there must be a large group of people surrounded, allow you to sign."

Four years later, Foxmail had reached 2 million users, while Tencent had just 100, 000 users.

Foxmail is known as the email software that competes with Microsoft Outlook.

In September 1998, Lei Jun, who had just become general manager of Kingsoft, contacted Zhang Xiaolong, hoping to buy Foxmail.

Zhang xiaorong randomly offered a price of 150,000 RMB, and Lei Jun agreed directly.

But unexpectedly, only the general manager of golden hill a month of Lei Jun because of affairs, the person who is in charge of the contact does not understand the value of Foxmail, but ignore this matter.

Until the dotcom bubble of 2000, the wind was bleak.

At this point, Zhang Xiaolong, who has completed the technology adjustment of Foxmail, rarely optimizes the update, which can't arouse his passion for his career.

He plans to return to the Internet business and sell his Foxmail.

So good luck to arrive, and offered 12 million RMB to buy the Internet company Foxmail, just two years from 150000 to 12 million, the magic of the Internet, absurdity and charm is the Zhang Xiaolong won the first bucket of gold.

At the end of 2010, the normally reticent Zhang Xiaolong sent an E-mail to Ma Huateng, suggesting that Tencent make mobile social software.

Zhang believes that the mobile Internet will have a new communication tool in the future, and this new communication tool is likely to pose a great threat to QQ.

Ma quickly replied to the email, agreeing with Zhang Xiaolong 's idea and asking him to lead Tencent's research and development department in Guangzhou to start the project.

At the beginning of 2011, WeChat ios was launched, but user growth was not ideal.

Zhang Xiaolong suddenly realized that on WeChat is too rational, adding some literary or human elements would be better?

Maybe the WeChat of 2011 is too utilitarian and realistic.

From then on, Zhang Xiaolong gave up his rational thinking and began to become a literary youth.

At the same time, WeChat began to add some more human features, looking for nearby people, friends, shake...

In 2012, Zhang made a new point: WeChat is a way of life.

Many people think that Zhang Xiaolong is more and more not like a serious programmer, but a "cheat master" selling concept.

Since then, WeChat has become unmanageable.

In the mobile Internet world, WeChat is not yet a close competitor, and Zhang Xiaolong has enough trial and error opportunities, as well as e-commerce, advertising and games.

Obviously, Ma Huateng has given the responsibility of the commercialization of WeChat to Zhang Xiaolong.

In May 2013, the engineer, nicknamed "nibbling", worked day and night to complete Zhang Xiaolong 's task to develop the game of "playing the plane".

In less than a week, the readme "day dozen aircraft" engineers of relief developed 4 "plane" game, including color, style black and white version of nostalgia, even have the screen from time to time emitted chickens, ducks and other small animals for players of the funny version of the shooting for Zhang Xiaolong to choose from.

In the end, the black and white sketch style "hit the plane" was selected by Zhang Xiaolong as a welcome interface for WeChat 5.0, a style consistent with zhang's belief in the "minimalist" style.

This is not the most complicated and modified software zhang has ever developed.

Most of his products were modified by his engineers hundreds of times before they were allowed to go online, and Mr. Jobs's eastern adherents did not allow any flaws in the product.

Once a week, the tennis ball, the blue lotus at night, and the addiction that has been kept from the programmer's time.

Some people say that Zhang Xiaolong is a man who is silent and mysterious, and is one of the few businessmen in China who have artistic temperament.

What if the world was made fresh APP, within 48 hours after the release, if you also download to try, maybe you will meet a man named Allen, if this person silent, even no head.

Then you may have met Zhang Xiaolong.