{"id":12402,"date":"2007-04-22T21:40:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/22\/chinas-sun-king-hails-clean-energy-joe-mcdonald\/"},"modified":"2007-04-22T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T04:40:46","slug":"chinas-sun-king-hails-clean-energy-joe-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/chinas-sun-king-hails-clean-energy-joe-mcdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s &#8216;Sun King&#8217; Hails Clean-Energy &#8211; Joe McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From AP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/Shi%20Zhengrong.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/Shi%20Zhengrong.php','popup','width=120,height=158,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/Shi%20Zhengrong-thumb.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"158\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shi_Zhengrong\">Shi Zhengrong<\/a> spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Shi saw signs of a blossoming industry as Germany, Japan and other countries invested in cleaner power. Excited by a trip home that showed him China&#8217;s rapid development, he startled friends by abruptly moving his wife and two Australian-born sons to his homeland in 2001 to launch a solar equipment company.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later, Shi&#8217;s confidence paid off when his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntech-power.com\/\">Suntech Power Holdings Ltd.<\/a> went public on the New York Stock Exchange and investors snapped up shares, turning him into a billionaire. Last year, Shi ranked No. 7 on the Forbes magazine list of China&#8217;s richest tycoons, with a $1.4 billion fortune. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/22\/AR2007042200583.html \"target=\"_blank\">[Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View Dr. Shi on the Forbes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/2006\/10\/EP46.html\">400 Richest Chinese People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Photo of Shi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. He expected to devote his life to science. Still, Shi saw signs of a blossoming industry as Germany, Japan and other countries invested in cleaner power. Excited by a trip home that showed him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[3673,6679],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-crisis","category-society","tag-alternative-energy","tag-climate-change","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China&#039;s &#039;Sun King&#039; Hails Clean-Energy - Joe McDonald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/04\/chinas-sun-king-hails-clean-energy-joe-mcdonald\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China&#039;s &#039;Sun King&#039; Hails Clean-Energy - Joe McDonald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From AP: Physicist Shi Zhengrong spent the 1990s in an Australian lab studying solar power, a field he picked by chance. 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