From CNN
The increasing global focus on renewable energy could not have come at a better time for Dr. Shi Zhengrong, an Australian citizen and Chinese-trained scientist who says he got into solar power by chance.
Shi, 44, is the chief executive of Suntech Power Holdings, one of the new breed of successful domestic China-based companies with global ambitions.
After spending a year at Sydney-based University of New South Wales’ renewable energy center in 1988, Shi found himself at a company formed to commercialize the ideas of fellow researchers.
“I never thought this solar business could take off or become commercially viable. I thought I just needed to concentrate on my research and publish papers to do my job as a scientist,” Shi told The Associated Press in an interview.
