Who’s Hu

China’s tycoons: their stories in two minutes

Wang Shi
Jul 24, 2009 (WiC 25)

Born in 1951 in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region (bordering Vietnam), Wang Shi joined the army at 17, before moving to the railway bureau where he worked in a boiler repair workshop. At 23 he enrolled at Lanzhou Railway University, and ...

Liu Chuanzhi
Jul 17, 2009 (WiC 24)

Getting started Liu Chuanzhi developed his entrepreneurial instincts at a relatively advanced age; he was 40 when he left the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with 10 engineers and Rmb200,000 ($25,000) of cash, to found Legend in ...

Charles Yang
Jul 10, 2009 (WiC 23)

Charles Zhang was lucky: the Cultural Revolution ended just as he finished middle school. So he enrolled in Tsinghua, China’s most prestigious university. In 1986 he received a full scholarship from Nobel prize winning physicist, Lee Tsung-Dao ...

Li Shufu
Jul 3, 2009 (WiC 22)

Li Shufu was born into a farming family. His career as an industrialist began in making spare parts for refrigerators in 1984. He then switched to aluminium bending board, before moving on to produce the first Geely motorcycle in ...

Shi Yuzhu
Jun 26, 2009 (WiC 21)

Shi Yuzhu was born in Anhui province in 1962 and graduated from Zhejiang University with a degree in mathematics. He became a civil servant but then decamped to Shenzhen in 1989 to complete a masters degree in software. His big ...

Cao Dewang
Jun 19, 2009 (WiC 20)

Cao Dewang’s business education began on the streets, cycling a round-trip 80km to sell fruit in the city of Fuqing. He spent some time as a chef before landing a job in 1976 at Fuqing Gao Shan Special Glass Factory. And his big ...

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