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Who’s Hu

China’s tycoons: their stories in two minutes

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Zhang Yin
Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33)

China’s richest woman, Zhang Yin was born in 1957 in Heilongjiang province. The daughter of a lieutenant in the Red Army, she started out in accounts in a state factory. In the early 1980s she moved to a joint venture paper firm in ...

Liu Yonghao
Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32)

Liu Yonghao’s life story seems to match much of China’s own transition in recent years. Born in 1951 in Sichuan, he was 14 when the Cultural Revolution began. He became a Red Guard, even travelling to Beijing to hear Mao speak. His ...

Zhang Ruimin
Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 31)

From a young age Zhang Ruimin showed engineering talent: he had a penchant for dismantling the family radio and reassembling it. Born in 1949, he says he always wanted to make China proud. In 1968 he joined a metal work factory but went to ...

Luo Hong
Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30)

The 42 year-old is from Sichuan and his first job was as a photographer’s assistant. Big break On his mother’s birthday he could not find a cake he liked. So he baked one himself and thought the result so good that he ...

Zong Qinghou
Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29)

The 64 year-old Zong Qinghou from Zhejiang province was a teacher until he turned 42. Then he and two colleagues got Rmb140,000 of loans to start selling children’s health drinks. The business was named Wahaha, which means ‘happy ...

Li Yanhong
Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28)

Li Yanhong (English name, Robin) is “the most handsome CEO in history” according to the Tianfu Morning Post. Born in 1968 in Shanxi province, Li graduated in information management from Peking University, before departing for a masters at ...

Huang Ming
Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27)

The 50 year-old from Shandong is another business leader lucky to be of university age just as the Cultural Revolution ended. He later became an oil equipment engineer in the Ministry of Geology and Resources. Big break At ...

Liu Yiqian
Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26)

Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden ...

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 ...

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Who’s Hu

China’s tycoons: their stories in two minutes

Zhang Yin Oct 2, 2009 (WiC 33) China’s richest woman, Zhang Yin was born in 1957 in Heilongjiang province. The daughter of a lieutenant in the Red Army, she started out in accounts in a state factory. In the early 1980s she moved to a joint venture paper firm in ...

Liu Yonghao Sep 25, 2009 (WiC 32) Liu Yonghao’s life story seems to match much of China’s own transition in recent years. Born in 1951 in Sichuan, he was 14 when the Cultural Revolution began. He became a Red Guard, even travelling to Beijing to hear Mao speak. His ...

Zhang Ruimin Sep 18, 2009 (WiC 31) From a young age Zhang Ruimin showed engineering talent: he had a penchant for dismantling the family radio and reassembling it. Born in 1949, he says he always wanted to make China proud. In 1968 he joined a metal work factory but went to ...

Luo Hong Sep 11, 2009 (WiC 30) The 42 year-old is from Sichuan and his first job was as a photographer’s assistant. Big break On his mother’s birthday he could not find a cake he liked. So he baked one himself and thought the result so good that he ...

Zong Qinghou Sep 4, 2009 (WiC 29) The 64 year-old Zong Qinghou from Zhejiang province was a teacher until he turned 42. Then he and two colleagues got Rmb140,000 of loans to start selling children’s health drinks. The business was named Wahaha, which means ‘happy ...

Li Yanhong Aug 28, 2009 (WiC 28) Li Yanhong (English name, Robin) is “the most handsome CEO in history” according to the Tianfu Morning Post. Born in 1968 in Shanxi province, Li graduated in information management from Peking University, before departing for a masters at ...

Huang Ming Aug 21, 2009 (WiC 27) The 50 year-old from Shandong is another business leader lucky to be of university age just as the Cultural Revolution ended. He later became an oil equipment engineer in the Ministry of Geology and Resources. Big break At ...

Liu Yiqian Jul 31, 2009 (WiC 26) Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden ...

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 ...