[4] Dr. Xu's career ranges across research in life sciences, biotechnology, film production,[5] entrepreneurship in information technology, venture capital and fund management.
Prior to Baidu, Dr. Xu worked at Qiagen, Inc. and Stratagene, Inc, two biotech start-up companies in California in technical support, sales and marketing.
[6] Dr. Xu is the producer of the first Chinese TV documentary on Silicon Valley's unique history and culture in 1999.
[4] In 1999, together with Mr. Robin Li, Dr. Xu co-founded Baidu, the world's largest Chinese search engine (NASDAQ:BIDU) and served as an Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer from 1999–2004.
[7] It counts Allele Biotech, AcuraGen, AIC Semiconductor, BravoKids, BioHermes, Imune-Onc, TSM, Yidian, Haizhi, Kuwo, Baihe, etc., as its portfolio companies, among others.