The founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu Company are fully responsible for the strategic planning and operation management of Baidu Company. Before the establishment of Baidu, Li Yanhong was one of the top search engine engineers in the world, and his patent of hyperlink analysis technology was one of the basic inventions that laid the development trend and direction of modern search engines. Baidu led by Li Yanhong is the largest Chinese search engine in the world. Baidu's success has also made China one of only four countries in the world with the core technology of search engines, keeping pace with the United States, Russia and South Korea. Li Yanhong has won the honors of "CCTV China Economic Person of the Year" and "Thirty People in 30 Years of Reform and Opening-up", and has been rated as "the most influential business leader in China" and "the most influential person in the world" by Businessweek, Fortune and other magazines.