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Who’s Hu

China’s tycoons: their stories in two minutes

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Frank Wang
Jan 16, 2015 (WiC 266)

Few of Hong Kong’s billionaires have made their fortunes without a major contribution from the real estate business. Stories of Silicon Valley-style whizz-kids becoming super-rich in the city are much rarer. But Frank Wang (or Wang Tao), the ...

Fu Sheng
Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255)

China’s internet heavyweights are building their business empires by acquiring promising start-ups (see WiC230). To do so, they are looking for promising young entrepreneurs to become part of their inner circles. Fu Sheng, the young CEO of ...

Cosmo Lady
Jun 20, 2014 (WiC 242)

Zheng Yaonan has a job that some might envy. He spends more than half of his working day watching women shop for lingerie. Dubbed “the man who understands women most”, the 39 year-old is set to become a billionaire for getting to know what ...

Jumei.com
May 30, 2014 (WiC 239)

“Strive for our dreams, live a wonderful life and be ourselves......I'm Leo Chen. I'd like to represent myself." That was how Chen Ou concluded a TV ad in 2012. The minute-and-a-half monologue turned out to be a marketing miracle. ...

Copper-wire tycoon
Feb 21, 2014 (WiC 226)

For many Chinese entrepreneurs, copper is often associated with unorthodox bank loans (see WiC103 for our first report on copper-backed trade finance). Wang Wenyin might prove to be an exception. He has built the biggest privately-owned ...

Asia’s (almost) richest man
Jan 24, 2014 (WiC 223)

Lui Che Woo won’t forget last Friday in a hurry. Why so? He was named Asia’s richest man – albeit for just one day. Bloomberg first decreed that the 84 year-old Hong Kong tycoon was $100 million richer than Li Ka-shing, and therefore the ...

China’s blue tooth king
Jan 17, 2014 (WiC 222)

In the 1980s Chinese electricians grew up extolling the virtues of Matsushita Konosuke, after the founder of Panasonic responded to Deng Xiaoping’s request for help in modernising China’s electronics sector. Technicians were soon learning how ...

China’s most famous butcher
Dec 13, 2013 (WiC 220)

Chen Sheng became China’s second most famous butcher after he hired the most famous one, Lu Buxuan. But the two men built their pork business from similar student backgrounds. Getting started Chen was born in Zhanjian in ...

Toread
Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218)

While Sheng Faqiang stays in the office, his wife Wang Jing (pictured below) promotes their sports gear brand by climbing the world’s highest mountains. The couple are founders of Toread, China’s largest outdoor sports-gear maker by ...

Wind Information
Nov 22, 2013 (WiC 217)

Bloomberg by Bloomberg is a business bible as far as Wind Information’s founder Lu Feng is concerned. He made Michael Bloomberg’s biography essential reading for all his managerial staff, and grew Wind into China’s answer to the ...

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Who’s Hu

China’s tycoons: their stories in two minutes

Frank Wang Jan 16, 2015 (WiC 266) Few of Hong Kong’s billionaires have made their fortunes without a major contribution from the real estate business. Stories of Silicon Valley-style whizz-kids becoming super-rich in the city are much rarer. But Frank Wang (or Wang Tao), the ...

Fu Sheng Oct 3, 2014 (WiC 255) China’s internet heavyweights are building their business empires by acquiring promising start-ups (see WiC230). To do so, they are looking for promising young entrepreneurs to become part of their inner circles. Fu Sheng, the young CEO of ...

Cosmo Lady Jun 20, 2014 (WiC 242) Zheng Yaonan has a job that some might envy. He spends more than half of his working day watching women shop for lingerie. Dubbed “the man who understands women most”, the 39 year-old is set to become a billionaire for getting to know what ...

Jumei.com May 30, 2014 (WiC 239) “Strive for our dreams, live a wonderful life and be ourselves......I'm Leo Chen. I'd like to represent myself." That was how Chen Ou concluded a TV ad in 2012. The minute-and-a-half monologue turned out to be a marketing miracle. ...

Copper-wire tycoon Feb 21, 2014 (WiC 226) For many Chinese entrepreneurs, copper is often associated with unorthodox bank loans (see WiC103 for our first report on copper-backed trade finance). Wang Wenyin might prove to be an exception. He has built the biggest privately-owned ...

China’s blue tooth king Jan 17, 2014 (WiC 222) In the 1980s Chinese electricians grew up extolling the virtues of Matsushita Konosuke, after the founder of Panasonic responded to Deng Xiaoping’s request for help in modernising China’s electronics sector. Technicians were soon learning how ...

China’s most famous butcher Dec 13, 2013 (WiC 220) Chen Sheng became China’s second most famous butcher after he hired the most famous one, Lu Buxuan. But the two men built their pork business from similar student backgrounds. Getting started Chen was born in Zhanjian in ...

Toread Nov 29, 2013 (WiC 218) While Sheng Faqiang stays in the office, his wife Wang Jing (pictured below) promotes their sports gear brand by climbing the world’s highest mountains. The couple are founders of Toread, China’s largest outdoor sports-gear maker by ...

Wind Information Nov 22, 2013 (WiC 217) Bloomberg by Bloomberg is a business bible as far as Wind Information’s founder Lu Feng is concerned. He made Michael Bloomberg’s biography essential reading for all his managerial staff, and grew Wind into China’s answer to the ...