Mr. Wang Shi founded Vanke in 1984. Under his leadership, Vanke has grown into the world’s largest residential home developer by sales revenue and China’s pioneer in green home construction. Mr. Wang Shi is also acting as independent directors for numerous publicly listed and non-listed companies, including SOHU.COM Inc., China Resources Land Ltd., etc. Committed to Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR), Mr. Wang Shi has created and led many influential social commonweal societies and social organizations. Mr. Wang Shi’s business experience as well as his research results on the private sector of economy in China has a wide impact in the academia home and abroad, relevant Chinese government agencies, and industry circles; meanwhile, he is regarded as an authority on the practice of the Chinese private sector enterprises. Mr. Wang Shi has been invited to present numerous public addresses, by Harvard University, MIT, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Chicago University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Tsinghua University, China Europe International Business School, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and other premier tertiary education institutions as well as organizations such as the Shanghai Stock.