Deng Zhonghan, the 37-year-old co-founder and CEO of Beijing-based chips manufacturer Vimicro Corporation, walked away with top honors in an annual selection of business people of the year sponsored by national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV). Deng’s pocketing of the prestigious honors in China’s business world came as no surprise since his company’s breakthroughs in developing chips with proprietary intellectual property in China perfectly matches the key selection criterion of being innovative.
　　
　　Founded in 1999 by a group of Silicon Valley technicians-turned-entrepreneurs, the company is now China’s largest fabless enterprise (focusing on design and development of chips, not manufacturing) and the world’s largest supplier of digital imaging processors for PC cameras. Its imaging, audio and video processors are also being widely selected by most Chinese handset manufacturers as well as international top-notch mobile device makers, including Samsung, Philips and Sony.
　　Built with a focus on strong product development, the young company is innovation-driven and has registered more than 500 patents for its high performance, low power and cost effective embedded multimedia signal processor chips. November 15, 2005, saw the company’s milestone IPO in New York, which made Vimicro the first Chinese mainland chip design company listed on Nasdaq.
　　Vimicro’s “China chip project” also won first prize in the National Science and Technology Advancement Awards sponsored by the State Council, China’s cabinet, with the award given to project commander in chief Deng by Chinese President Hu Jintao in March 2005.
　　Delivering an acceptance speech at the CCTV awards gala broadcast live nationally December 28, Deng said the award was a token of recognition for a generation of Chinese entrepreneurs striving to boost China’s core competitive strength by innovating and creating technologies with proprietary property rights.
　　Deng’s success story proves that innovation is on the rise in China, which is partly attributable to government’s efforts to push its nascent technology industry up the value chain besides relying on cost advantages and software-coding prowess. Part of Vimicro’s venture capital was injected by the Ministry of Information Industry, which in 1999 started an incubation program to provide seed money for IT startups in China’s Silicon Valley set up by Chinese talents returning from overseas.
　　Dong came back to China after earning two master’s degrees, in physics and economics, and a doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley in only five years―a record for this renowned institution of higher learning.
　　
　　“Vimicro made it to Nasdaq not by relying on ‘made in China’ or China’s vast market to make the mark; rather, the key to success is ‘design by China’ or the mastery of core technology of proprietary of intellectual property.”
　　Deng Zhonghan
　　
　　“Deng Zhonghan’s winning of the award sheds light on China’s technology-driven development path.”
　　Li Jinhuan China’s top auditor and Deng’s award presenter
　　
　　“Deng’s success does not hinge on its sales volume of chips or historic IPO in the United States, but the breakthrough in granting China a position in an arena which did not have a presence of Chinese players. More important, this arena is vital to future development of the economy.”
　　Yin Zhihua Beijing-based Communications World Weekly
　　
　　“I disagree with China’s mainstream economic arena view, that China should now concentrate on developing labor-intensive industry and innovation can wait until more capital and talents are accumulated. At least in terms of the information industry, if we don’t focus on core technology development and wait to start innovation in 15 years when we have enough capital, we will forever lag behind.”
　　Li Guojie Director of National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems

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