{"slug": "chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting", "title": "Chinese ‘CEO in a school uniform’ builds, exports drones, funds start-up by waiting tables", "summary": "Wei Siyuan, a 19-year-old Chinese student and CEO of a drone and AI company, donated 100,000 yuan to sanitation workers at his former school. He founded the company with two friends while still in secondary school, earning the nickname 'school uniform CEO'.", "body_md": "# Chinese ‘CEO in a school uniform’ builds, exports drones, funds start-up by waiting tables\n\nEnterprising youngster with a talent for technology doubles as philanthropist, learned about tools at factory where his mother worked\n\n[Fran Lu](/author/fran-lu)in Beijing\n\nAn enterprising 19-year-old student in China heads a start-up tech company and is also a philanthropist who donated 100,000 yuan (US$15,000) to sanitation workers at his school.\n\nWei Siyuan graduated from Baoan Middle School in Shenzhen, southern China’s Guangdong province, last year and was admitted to Hunan University.\n\nHe also has another identity: the chief executive officer of a company that develops unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) powered equipment.\n\nAs a result, he has earned the nickname: “school uniform CEO”.\n\nWhen his schoolmates were working hard towards a good university, Wei started the company with two friends who had worked together since junior secondary school.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3356918/chinese-ceo-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-waiting-tables?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-06-16 01:00:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 01:22:03.462227+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-startups", "robotics", "autonomous-vehicles", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Wei Siyuan", "Baoan Middle School", "Hunan University", "Shenzhen", "Guangdong"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-ceo-in-a-school-uniform-builds-exports-drones-funds-start-up-by-waiting.jsonld"}}