South African-born businessman who heads the electric-car maker Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX; Tesla has made cars in Shanghai since 2019. He bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X.
Chinese media often call him 钢铁侠 'Iron Man' or 现实版钢铁侠 'the real-life Iron Man'. The link is real: Robert Downey Jr. met him while preparing to play Tony Stark, and Musk has a cameo in Iron Man 2 (2010).
