- Chu Mang Yee
$2.5 BILLION S
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
AGE: 56. MARRIED, 1 CHILD
RESIDENCE: GUANGZHOU
Chu, a former government bureaucrat, chairs
Hopson Development, a Hong Kong-listed real
estate developer with projects in more than 30
cities. His fortune has risen in the past year due
to new information about his ownership of an
investment management group and a rise in
Hopson’s share price.
86. Song Zuowen
$2.5 BILLION T
SOURCE: DIVERSIFIED
AGE: 69. MARRIED, 2 CHILDREN
RESIDENCE: LONGKOU
His Nanshan Group, with interests that span
aluminum, apparel, education, tourism and a
regional airline, is working to strengthen its core
company, Shanghai-listed Shandong Nanshan
Aluminum. Nanshan said in January that it would
buy Shandong Yili Power, a private company with
an aluminum manufacturing unit and its own
power generating facility, for $1.1 billion. Regulatory
approval is pending. - Huang Wei
$2.6 BILLION T
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
AGE: 56. MARRIED
RESIDENCE: HANGZHOU
Huang controls Xinhu Zhongbao, one of China’s
largest real estate developers. While expanding in
Shanghai in the past year, Huang also moved into
finance. Xinhu Zhongbao invested $100 million
in fintech company U51.com, a credit card bill-
management service provider with more than
30 million users; Xinhu Zhongbao currently owns
32% of the business. - Li Li
$2.6 BILLION S
SOURCE: PHARMACEUTICALS
AGE: 52. MARRIED
RESIDENCE: SHENZHEN
Li, who once worked in a meat-processing plant,
chairs Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical, a
supplier of sodium heparin, a blood thinner, to
global pharmaceutical firms such as Novartis and
Sanofi-Aventis. He shares his fortune with his
wife, Li Tan. His first pharmaceuticals job was at
Chongqing Tongda, which produces heparin. - Ma Xingtian
$2.6 BILLION S
SOURCE: PHARMACEUTICALS
AGE: 47. MARRIED
RESIDENCE: PUNING
Ma founded Kangmei Pharmaceutical at age 28
as a small factory. This year the company was
large enough to make the Forbes Global 2000
list, with nearly 8,900 employees. Kangmei said in
September it would invest roughly $750 million in
an online pharmacy and the medical supply chain in
Chongqing. Ma shares his fortune with his wife. - Jiang Rensheng
$2.55 BILLION Ì
SOURCE: PHARMACEUTICALS
AGE: 63. MARRIED, 1 CHILD
RESIDENCE: CHONGQING
Shares in Shenzhen-listed vaccine-supplier
Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products have risen
by more than 50% in the past year, helping lift the
fortune of chairman Jiang. He built the business after
working other jobs, including as a primary school
teacher and a government health oicial.
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$2.5 BILLION T
SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT
AGE: 47. MARRIED
RESIDENCE: GUANGZHOU
Cai has guided Guangdong Alpha Animation—now called Alpha Group—from a successful toy maker into
one of China’s largest animation studios. Its Shenzhen-listed shares fell about 15% over the past year. In April
Alpha said it would buy Baby Trend, a U.S. company that makes strollers and children’s safety seats, for
$94 million.
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