ZDATA Founder and Chairman Kevin receives the "EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2022."
Recently, the list of winners for the "EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022" was officially announced. This year's selection, themed "Inspiring Vitality, Facilitating Innovation," aims to discover and commend entrepreneurs who have made significant contributions to building a collaborative and efficient, innovation-driven ecosystem. Through collaborative creation, sharing, symbiotic development, these entrepreneurs continuously create long-term value, further inspiring vitality in Chinese enterprises, and contributing to the new connotation of the entrepreneurial spirit in this era.

After nearly 6 months of nominations, interviews, and evaluations, ten outstanding entrepreneurs stood out from numerous candidates. Among them, Mr. Kevin, Co-founder and Chairman of ZDATA, was honored with the "EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022" for his entrepreneurial spirit of being enterprising and innovative, as well as his significant contributions to leading the high-quality development of the digital economy in the era of transformation, representing the technology sector.
About the EOY (EY Entrepreneur of the Year):
The EY Entrepreneur of the Year is one of the most prestigious international business awards globally. Since its inception in 1986, the award has expanded to over 60 countries and regions and 145 cities. Over a thousand outstanding entrepreneurs worldwide, including Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks, Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, and Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, have received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
The selection for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 covers eight major industries: technology, consumer goods, manufacturing, medical science and health, services, real estate, clean technology, media, and entertainment. It utilizes six international unified evaluation criteria, including the candidate's entrepreneurial spirit, value creation, strategic development direction, national or global impact, innovation, and goal-driven leadership.

Mr. Kevin, as an outstanding figure who seizes opportunities in a complex market environment and courageously accepts challenges, has led ZDATA since its founding in 2014. In just 8 years, he has focused on technological breakthroughs, built a strong competitive advantage, and continuously supported the country's innovation-driven development strategy. ZDATA has risen to become one of the top ten influential third-party data center companies. While enriching the industrial ecosystem and promoting integrated development, the company actively practices environmentally friendly development, implements the national 'dual carbon' goals, and continuously empowers sustainable development in the digital economy.
This award highlights Mr. Kevin's entrepreneurial spirit of determination and perseverance, as well as ZDATA's influence in the technology and data center industry. In the future, ZDATA will continue to fulfill its responsibility as an enterprise in the new era, actively respond to the mission and policy calls of the times, practice the concept of green and sustainable development, adhere to the "new energy + big data" development model, optimize design and operation modes through innovation, and actively explore the application scenarios of green electricity innovation technologies such as "source-grid-load-storage." The company aims to drive the data center industry towards intensive, large-scale, and green development, building a solid green foundation for the digital economy.
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