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Yang Huiyan

who holds the majority of stock in Country Garden, a real estate dev compnay founded by her father. Yang went to school at Ohio state University, returned to China and now is worth 5x more than Donald Trump.



Dr Shi Zhengrong left his home in Wuxi to study physics and solar energy at Australia's University of New South Wales. After receiving his PhD, he returned to China with $200k in savings. In 2001, with some additional venture capital, he started Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE:STP) to produce solar power products. Today, just 7 yrs later, Suntech has a market cap of $11 billion and Shi is a billionaire 5x over.


















Michael Yu
His parents were both farmers in a rural Chinese village, and his father built a pen for their pigs from rubble and stones. Yu taught himself English as a teenager, and then left his village to attend Peking University. Upon graduation, he took a job teaching English for $12 a month. After failing to get a student visa for postgraduate studies in US, Yu started a test preparation school for other Chinese students who also desired to study abroad. He founded New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NYSE:EDU), the leading English test preparation company in China, and today 45 yr old is worth more than half a billion dollars.

Huang Guangyu
36, grew up poor in Guangdong province and spent his childhood selling plastic bottles to make money. At the age of 16, he went to Beijing and set up a roadside stall. there he sold electronics that he bought cheaply from factories in his hometown. That stall led to the creation of GOME Electrical Appliances (0493.HK) which is now one of China's leading electronics stores.

Jason Jiang
Founder of advertising firm Focus Media (Nasdaq:FMCN), 34 yr old is a Shanghai native started out as a literature student at Huadong Normal University and then saw the potential for selling advertisiing on video screens placed in strategic locations like grocery stores and elevators. He created Focus Media to do just that and now more than 90k of his company screens are found in nearly 100 cities in China.

Zhang Yin
richest self-made woman in the world. was born in Heilongjiang province during the Cultural Revolution, the daughter of a solder, moved to hk and started a company that bought waste and recycled paper, much of it from the US. Her company Nine Dragon Paper (2689.HK) used the paper to manufacture cardboard boxes for use by Chinese companies.

Zhu Jun
entrepreneur behind The9 (Nasdaq:NCTY) one of China's innovative online gaming companies. In 2004, he acquired the rights to operate the world's most po;ular multiplayer game World of Warcraft (WoW) in China. The success of WoW has made Zhu a wealthy man. At age 41, he is also the owner of a professional soccer team in Shanghai, is known for offering his players cash incentives to encourage them to play better.

James Liang
won China first national computer programming contest at age 13, and then headed to US to attend Georgia Tech. He worked for software giant Oracle before returning to Shanghai and found travel company Ctrip with 3 former classmates. Using a $250k investment, Liang built Ctrip into China's leading online travel web site.

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Multinationals
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