[1] He is the founder, chairman and CEO of DiDi, a Chinese mobile transportation platform with global operations.

[2] In 2012, after eight years at Alibaba Group's regional and Alipay's operations, Cheng founded Beijing Xiaoju Technology Co Ltd in Zhongguancun.

About one year later, Cheng applied to join Alibaba as a sales person for its business-to-business e-commerce service in 2005.

He later moved to China's largest third-party online payment platform, Alipay, where he was soon promoted to the position of regional manager.

[8] Since the company was founded in 2012, under the leadership of Cheng Wei and Jean Liu, DiDi has grown to become one of the world’s highest valued tech start-ups.