Mr Nick Zeng is the General Manager of People Strong High-tech Ltd that creates innovative elderly healthcare solutions. Mr Zeng and his team has worked with over 60 elderly care organisations on optimising management efficiency and economic benefits and has scaled up to become the official supplier for China Resources, Greenland Group, China Mobile and other major players in the market.
Mr Zeng’s work in social entrepreneurship has been recognised in China and overseas. He was named one of the top 10 model youth entrepreneurs in Guangdong province, China. In 2019, Mr Zeng led an incubation team at SkyDeck – a prestigious incubator programme for startups at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr Zeng was then nominated as one of the top 10 model innovative youths in the first Greater Bay Area Model Youth Innovation Selection event. Also in 2019, he was listed in the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list. In 2020, he was honoured in the Hurun China “Under 30s To Watch 2020” as an elite entrepreneur and became an APEC Changemaker. In the same year, he joined the Global Citizenship Academy and represented China as a youth representative at the SDG Summit held at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Mr Zeng was also invited by the United Nations Shenzhen Youth Entrepreneurship Promotion Association to participate as an entrepreneurship mentor at a high-profile entrepreneurship programme in Africa. Additionally, he won a scholarship to participate in a prominent social entrepreneurship programme in Bangladesh, India, and worked with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Professor Muhammad Yunus on challenges related to social entrepreneurship.
Mr Zeng was handpicked by the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics as an outstanding social entrepreneur and has appeared in various national media platforms, including CCTV, People’s Daily and Xuexi Qiangguo – a Chinese educational app designed by the Alibaba Group. He was also featured in a social entrepreneurship programme on CCTV where he successfully raised RMB 4 million for his venture. He is one of the youngest members of the Chinese “Health and Elderly Academy” and has served 90,000 elderlies, including over 50,000 individuals and nearly 40,000 elderlies through various care homes.