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This list showcases the top China based CEO’ operating in the Agriculture space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Stuart Oda
Founder & CEO of Alesca Life
Stuart is an investment banker turned urban farmer passionate about sustainability, innovation, and impact. He co-founded Alesca Life, an agricultural technology company developing solutions to improve food security, food safety, supply chain transparency and farming efficiency. Stuart is an UCLA alumni and previously worked in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch Japan Securities in Tokyo and the emerging market business strategy team at Dell China in Beijing.
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About Alesca Life: Alesca Life Technologies creates next-generation urban farming solutions using advanced software technology.

Chuanjun Liu
CEO of Meicai
Liu Chuanjun Founder and CEO of Meicai A farmer’s son turned astronomy researcher, Liu Chuanjun is also a serial entrepreneur. After his first startup (selling high-end organic food) failed after six months, Liu founded group buying site Wowo (aka 55tuan), now Nasdaq-listed, which he sold it in 2011, to refocus on farm products. Liu majored in rocketry and astronomy and holds a master’s from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where his research included spaceflights of Chinese space program Shenzhou 6 and 7. He was born in 1982 in Shandong and goes home every year to help work the land.
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About 55tuan.com, Meicai: Meicai sells agricultural products online that aims to change agriculture, rural areas, and farmers through the Internet.
Sean Xu
CEO of Longrich
Sean Xu graduated from Oxford Brookes University as a business administration major in 2006. Now he is studying for his EMBA in China Europe International Business School. Also, he is a deputy to Changshu Municipal People’s Congress.He worked his way to the dizzy heights of CEO step by step from Longrich sales, finance, HR and risk control departments. And all Longrich staff is deeply impressed by his persistence, diligence and humility at work.In 2014, he carried out a series of changes related to delegation management, IT management, budget management and process optimization, which took Longrich operation results to new heights.Under the leadership of Sean Xu, Longrich will go farther and fly higher with faith, persistence, responsibility and gratitude in mind.
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About Longrich: Longrich is a Chinese cosmetics and health food producer.

George Yan
Founder and CEO of Clobotics
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About Clobotics: Clobotics provides intelligent computer vision solutions for the retail and wind power sectors.
Kengo Kitaura
CEO and Founder of Agribuddy
Kengo Kitaura is the CEO and Founder at Agribuddy.
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About Agribuddy: Management of agricultural support application “AGRIBUDDY”.
Yang Yu
Founder and CEO of Nongtian Guanjia
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About Nongtian Guanjia: Nongtian Guanjia is a Beijing-based agricultural drone services platform, also known as Farm Friend.