Zhu Jun, born in Shanghai in October 1966, 49 years old, ninth city chairman and chief executive, former Shanghai Shenhua Football Club investors. In 1998, a foreign company named "Gamenow" was registered in Hongkong with a $500 thousand fund, and the virtual community GameNow.net was created in China (after renaming the "ninth city"), the first person to create a virtual community in China. In 2004, Ninth cities successfully listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ:NCTY) and raised more than 100 million US dollars. In
2007, Zhu Jun bought the Shenhua Football Club in Shanghai and started the operation of the club. In 2014, Zhu Jun sold Shanghai Shenhua Football Club and returned to the ninth city. In the same year, the ninth city subsidiary, Red 5 Studios, obtained a 27 million dollar investment from the Oriental Pearl Company, and reached an agreement with System Link with $160 million. The latter obtained the exclusive right to issue and operate in China for the next five years in the next five years of the network game "Firefall" (fire waterfall). System Link is a joint venture between Jiucheng and Qihoo 360. "World of Warcraft" really completed the nine cities, the game is its growth gene, 2014 return to the game, this is a new beginning.
mainly experienced time axis:
1998, creating a virtual community GameNow.net (later renamed "the ninth city"), becoming the first person to create a virtual community in China. In
2000, the ninth city computer technology consulting (Shanghai) Limited was established as chairman and chief executive officer. In
2002, it was launched and operated in Korea by MU. In the year of
2004, Ninth cities successfully listed on NASDAQ and raised more than 100 million US dollars. In the year of
2005, World of Warcraft was officially launched in China, and once reached the highest online score of more than 1 million 200 thousand people. In
2007, Zhu Jun personally bought Shanghai Shenhua Football Club with state-owned assets. In
2008-2011, it acquired and invested in many foreign game companies.
2012 won the exclusive right to operate the US game "planet margin 2" in mainland China. In
2013, the independently developed massively multiplayer online role shooting game Firefall conducted public testing in North America and Europe.
2014 January, Zhu Jun sold Shanghai Shenhua Football Club, announced the return to the ninth cities, focusing on the development of Internet business.