Wang Xiaochuan: Search engine guru

Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of stories reflecting China's achievements in a range of fields, including science, law enforcement, education and transportation, resulting from 40 years of the reform and opening-up policy. More stories will follow.

Nov 9, 2017, was an exciting day for Wang Xiaochuan, CEO of the search engine Sogou, because that was when his company made it onto the New York Stock Exchange. As a member of the first generation to witness and participate in the development of China's internet industry, Wang had spent decades anticipating that moment.

Born in 1978, the year the reform and opening-up policy started, Wang was lucky to grow up in a time when the country was determined to embrace information technology and the internet.