<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened his account on China's social media Wechat and posted a 30-second video in Mandarin.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In his first post on the social networking app, the American billionaire and philanthropist said hello in Chinese and said he would "share about the people I meet, books I'm reading and what I'm learning".<br /><br />The video, posted on February 11, has already been viewed more than 100,000 times and received over 10,000 likes, state-run China Daily reported.<br /><br />He plans to share content including global health, energy innovation and education reform through the account.<br /><br />Gates' decision to join China's content market is no doubt a blow for the many accounts purporting to spread success articles in his name, the Daily report said.<br />The 61-year-old world's richest man has long been an idol in China.<br /><br />His anecdotes and quotations, too numerous to distinguish what's real and fake, never lost their appeal to Chinese readers over the past two decades, it said.<br />Founding software company Microsoft in 1975 Gates frequently dominated the top spot of Forbes world's wealthiest people.<br /><br />After retiring from Microsoft in 2008, he focused on managing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chaired, with his wife, and announced that he would donate his USD 58 billion personal fortune to the foundation.<br /><br />The tycoon's legendary life has won him millions of Chinese fans and anything he says is regarded as a classic, making him a valuable addition to China's rising content industry, the daily said.<br /><br />Opening a social media account in China shows that the business mogul attaches importance to the nation's content market, it said.<br /><br />China is also one of the areas of most concern to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has an office in Beijing, it said. <br /></p>
<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates has opened his account on China's social media Wechat and posted a 30-second video in Mandarin.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In his first post on the social networking app, the American billionaire and philanthropist said hello in Chinese and said he would "share about the people I meet, books I'm reading and what I'm learning".<br /><br />The video, posted on February 11, has already been viewed more than 100,000 times and received over 10,000 likes, state-run China Daily reported.<br /><br />He plans to share content including global health, energy innovation and education reform through the account.<br /><br />Gates' decision to join China's content market is no doubt a blow for the many accounts purporting to spread success articles in his name, the Daily report said.<br />The 61-year-old world's richest man has long been an idol in China.<br /><br />His anecdotes and quotations, too numerous to distinguish what's real and fake, never lost their appeal to Chinese readers over the past two decades, it said.<br />Founding software company Microsoft in 1975 Gates frequently dominated the top spot of Forbes world's wealthiest people.<br /><br />After retiring from Microsoft in 2008, he focused on managing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chaired, with his wife, and announced that he would donate his USD 58 billion personal fortune to the foundation.<br /><br />The tycoon's legendary life has won him millions of Chinese fans and anything he says is regarded as a classic, making him a valuable addition to China's rising content industry, the daily said.<br /><br />Opening a social media account in China shows that the business mogul attaches importance to the nation's content market, it said.<br /><br />China is also one of the areas of most concern to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has an office in Beijing, it said. <br /></p>