Electric Zhijia News, on April 16, according to the official news of Sun Yat-sen University, on the afternoon of April 16, Lin Bin and Liu Xiangdong alumni couple, co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi Group Lin Bin and his wife donated to Sun Yat-sen University The signing ceremony was held in the Waishi Hall of the South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus, Lin Bin and Liu Xiangdong donated 100 million yuan in cash to Sun Yat-sen University.
On behalf of the university, Academician Gao Song, President of Sun Yat-sen University and President of the Alumni Association, awarded Lin Bin the honorary title of the first honorary trustee. It is reported that the 100 million yuan donated by Lin Bin and Liu Xiangdong is intended to be used for the construction of Lin Bin and Liu Xiangdong Cultural and Sports Center, the establishment of Lin Bin Liu Xiangdong Scholarship, Hong Danhua Scholarship and other projects, which will provide better learning and working conditions for teachers and students at the school, and inject strong alumni strength into the new centennial journey of Sun Yat-sen University.
Lin Bin delivered a speech at the signing ceremony and affectionately confessed to his alma mater. "My mother, sister, brother-in-law, cousin, cousin, uncle, and more than a dozen other relatives are all graduates of Zhongshan Medicine, and our family is a CUHK person. My alma mater has laid the foundation for me to pursue a career path in life. Sun Yat-sen University is one of the best universities in my heart. I hope that more alumni can support the construction of their alma mater, and make a strong contribution to jointly build their alma mater into the best university in the world. On the same day, Lin Bin posted a Weibo message, saying, "Returning to the CUHK campus is like traveling back to the years of youth." Thirty-eight years ago, this was the starting point for me to pursue my dream, and every corner was filled with the fragrance of knowledge and the breath of youth. ”
Lin Bin, male, Han nationality, born in February 1968 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, is a Chinese-American entrepreneur and currently serves as vice chairman and executive director of Xiaomi Group. From 1980 to 1986, Lin Bin studied at Guangdong Experimental School (now renamed Guangdong Experimental Middle School), in 1986, Lin Bin was admitted to the Department of Electronics of Sun Yat-sen University without examination, and in 1990, Lin Bin went to Drexel University in Philadelphia to study for a graduate degree in computer science. After graduating from university in 1992, Lin Bin worked as a software development engineer at Automatic Data Processing in the United States, engaged in software design and development of network monitoring and management systems based on SNMP and TCP/IP protocols. In 2003, Lin Bin, together with Zhang Hongjiang and Zhang Yaqin, founded Microsoft Asia Engineering Academy (ATC) as engineering director. At the end of 2006, he joined Google as Vice President and Engineering Director of Google China Engineering Research Institute, and Global Technical Director of Google. On November 16, 2010, Lin Bin officially left Google, and in the same year, Lin Bin and Lei Jun co-founded Xiaomi Technology, and served as the president and vice chairman of Xiaomi [2].
It is worth mentioning that Lei Jun also issued a message to congratulate Lin Bin on his donation on the same day. Last year, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Wuhan University, Lei Jun, a 1987 alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University and founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, donated 1.3 billion yuan to his alma mater. This donation is the largest single donation since the establishment of Wuhan University, and it is also the largest personal cash donation from alumni received by a university in China. Lei Jun was awarded the Outstanding Educational Contribution Award by Wuhan University.