Xu Lijin, 49, is the former chairman of Efort Intelligence Equipment, a maker of industrial robots. The Anhui-based firm was spun out of automaker Chery in 2007 and is one of China’s leading manufacturers of factory robots.
The Shanghai-listed firm has a market cap of $2 billion, and in 2022 it took a 49 percent stake in Italian motion control system developer Robox. Xu stepped down as chairman in 2023 but remains a board director and, through holding firms, the largest individual sharehold
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