Meng Xinli, who is the founder and chairman of Shanxi Shangfeng Technology Co, majored in journalism in the School of Literature at Shanxi University during 1984-88.

After graduating, Meng worked as a journalist for 10 years and established Shanxi Shangfeng Technology Co in 1998. He is now also a member of Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology and the Shanxi University Education Development Foundation, which was founded in 2019.

At the 117th anniversary of his alma mater in 2019, he donated 1.5 million yuan ($211,970) to the Shanxi University Education Development Foundation to help the university's education development.