Robin Zeng
Robin Zeng Yuqun is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the battery manufacturer CATL, and a vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
As of December 2025, Zeng is among the top 30 wealthiest people in the world according to Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Early life
Zeng is from Fujian Province. He earned a marine engineering degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an MSc in electronics and information engineering from South China University of Technology in 2001, and a PhD in physics from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006.Career
Zeng worked at a state-owned shipbuilding company in Fujian Province early in his career. He later joined an electronic parts factory after graduation where he worked for 10 years. He then co-founded Amperex Technology Limited in 1999 with two former colleagues. The company produced lithium polymer batteries for digital gadgets, including iPhones, according to a Financial Times report in 2018. In 2005, ATL was acquired by Japan's TDK, but Zeng continued as a manager for ATL.In 2012, Zeng and vice-chairman Huang Shilin spun-off the electric vehicle battery operations of ATL into a new company CATL, which manufactures lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, and became a world leader in the following years. In 2017, CATL went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
In 2024, CATL ventured into renewable energy, power grids and electrical energy storage systems.