[2][3] He is also the president of Shenma Inc., a joint venture formed by UCWeb and Alibaba that offers a mobile-centric search service.

[4] A Guangzhou native, Liang attended the city's South China University of Technology[5] and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1998.

After graduation, he started his career at Asiainfo Technologies' Guangzhou office in role of software engineer working on large scale email system.

He led the company's tech team to build a proprietary mobile browser rendering engine U3 kernel.

[6] In April 2014, UCWeb together with Alibaba incorporated a joint venture (Chinese: 神马搜索; pinyin: Shénmǎ Sōusuǒ; lit.