Top 10 Richest Billionaires In China
Looking forward to getting inspired? Take a look at some of the billionaires of the world! The richest and powerful people of today are the ones who worked extremely hard in the past. You can definitely dig deeper in their lives get some golden life lessons for yourself. Now, speaking of billionaires, you’d be surprised to know there’s plenty of them in China! In this article, we aim to familiarize you with the top 10 richest Chinese billionaires. Here they are:
1. Jack Ma
Jack Ma’s net worth as of right now is a whopping $38.2 billion. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
He wasn’t born into a wealthy family and faced many rejections when he applied for jobs. However, soon after he started Alibaba Group which is one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces today. Ma’s company has also diversified in many other fields today such as technology and robotics.
2. Huateng Ma
Huateng Ma’s current net worth is $36 billion. At present, he is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tencent Holdings Ltd. He is the son of a port manager who studied telecommunication. He later went on to co-found Tencent with three of his other classmates in 1998.
3. Hui Ka Yan
Hui Ka Yan’s current net worth is $27.7 billion. He is presently the Chairman of China Evergrande Group. Also known as Xu Jiayin, he first started working as a technician in a steel factory. After that, he slowly climbed his way up to becoming the Chairman of the real estate giant Evergrande Group.
4. Colin Zheng Huang
Colin Zheng Huang’s current net worth stands at $26.2 billion. He received his education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he majored in computer science. He also later went on to intern at Microsoft. Also, as of right now, he is the Cheif Executive Officer of an e-commerce giant in China called Pinduoduo.
5. Yang Huiyan
Yang Huiyan is presently worth 24.4 billion. She was educated at Ohio State University in the U.S. Presently, she holds a whopping 57% of Country Garden Holdings which is a property development company. Apart from this, she is also the chairman of a Chinese education company known as Bright Scholar Education Holdings.
6. He Xiangjian
He Xiangjian’s current net worth is $23.2 billion, he is an entrepreneur who grew his company Midea Group into one of the world’s largest appliance makers. As of right now, his company Midea Group has more than 200 subsidiaries.
7. William Lei Ding
William Lei Ding at this moment is worth $21.7 billion. He made his money in the space of internet gaming and gambling. Also, as of right now, he is the Chief Executive Officer of one of the world’s largest online and mobile games businesses called Netease.
8. Qin Yinglin
Qin Yinglini’s net worth is $19.4 billion. He made his fortune in the cattle business. He started out by receiving his education at the Henan Agricultural University in Animal Husbandry. Today he is the Chairman of Muyuan Foodstuff which is China’s largest pig breeder.
9. Zhang Yiming
Right now, Zhang Yiming’s net worth is $16.2 billion. He is the chairman of one of China’s largest media content platforms called ByteDance. It is the same company which made the popular app TikTok.
10. Sun Piaoyang
Sun Piaoyang’s current net worth is $13.9 billion. At present, he acts as the Chairman of Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine which is a pharmaceutical company. Also, he stepped up to the position of chairman at the age of 32. Also, his company is China’s one of the largest producers of anti-infection and tumor-treating medicines.
This concludes our list of the top ten billionaires of China. Now, do let us know how many of them did you know about beforehand.
