# Education Funding

Battery King’s Bounty: CATL Founder’s $300 Million Donation Signals Shift in Chinese Tech Philanthropy

CATL founder Robin Zeng has donated 5 million shares of the world’s leading battery maker, worth roughly 2 billion RMB, to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. This move reinforces the strategic link between China’s green-tech pioneers and its top-tier research institutions, highlighting a new era of high-stakes academic philanthropy.