Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu Inc., is another Chinese candidate on Time magazine's 100 most influential people list.

Li, 42, founded Baidu in 2000, after returning from the United States, where he studied and worked as a software engineer. Baidu has since become the largest Chinese search engine and currently holds more than 70 percent of the search market in China. It was listed on NASDAQ in 2005 and became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index two years later.

Li received a Bachelor of Science degree from Peking University in 1991 and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994.