BYD's Li serves as example for other women

Stella Li, president of BYD Motors Inc, believes that her own story of moving up in the business world can provide a lesson in how women can shatter the glass ceiling in business.

"Everyone can look to me as an example of how women can be successful business executives," she said at the Project Sunshine 15th Annual Benefit Celebration in New York last Thursday. "BYD is a very good example of a solution for the trade issue."

Li accepted the Business Leadership Award from Project Sunshine, a nonprofit organization founded by Joseph Weilgus in 1998 to provide creative educational and recreational programs for ill children in hospitals in the US and overseas, including China.