Jinkosolar Holdings Co (JKS)

Xiande Li founded JinkoSolar and is its chairman and chief executive. He also chairs Jinko Solar Co., Ltd., the group's main operating company, and Jinko Power Technology Co., Ltd. Before founding the company he was marketing manager at Zhejiang Yuhuan Solar Energy Source Co., Ltd. and then ran marketing and operations at ReneSola from 2005 to 2006. His brother Xianhua Li, the other founder, is a director; he ran the Yuhuan solar company's factory from 2000 to 2006 and was JinkoSolar's vice president from June 2006 to March 2020. 123456

Haiyun (Charlie) Cao, a director since December 2020, is chief executive of Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. (called Jiangxi Jinko in the filing). He was JinkoSolar's chief financial officer from September 2014 to May 2021, after serving as a senior audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2012. Mengmeng (Pan) Li has been chief financial officer since May 2021; he joined in July 2017 as senior internal audit manager, and from 2010 to 2015 was an internal audit manager at Canadian Solar, which the filing names as a competitor. 78291011

Three independent directors complete the board: Wing Keong Siew, a director since May 2008, who once ran the Asian businesses of Fairchild Systems, Mentor Graphics and Compaq before a career in private equity; Steven Markscheid, since September 2009, who led GE Capital's business development in China and Asia Pacific; and Gang Chu, since August 2024, chief operating officer of China International Capital Corporation from 2015 to 2024. The founder holds the largest stake: Xiande Li beneficially owns 21.0% of the shares, and the directors and officers together 27.3%. 1213141516171819

JinkoSolar counted 26,409 full-time employees at the end of 2025, down from 33,830 a year earlier and 57,397 at the end of 2023; the filing puts the latest cut down to a strategic adjustment of its production and organizational structure. Of the 26,409, 15,927 work in manufacturing, 2,158 in research and development, 766 in sales and marketing and 7,558 in administration, the vast majority in China. The filing estimates the social insurance and housing fund contributions it has left unpaid at RMB1.97 billion (US$281.7 million) at the end of 2025, because it contributed on the local minimum wage rather than on actual salaries as required. 20212223