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william li
zhou xiaoguang
NEWCOMER: the serial
entrepreneur’s three-year-old NEWCOMER: the zhejiang native,
startup, nio, began taking or- who reportedly left school at age
ders for its first electric suv 16 due to a lack of funds, got her

in december. nio’s es8 sells start peddling trinkets. with her
for a base price of $71,000, husband, yu yunxin, zhou later
much less than tesla’s model cofounded neoglory, which still
x, which starts at roughly sells inexpensive baubles on am-
$130,000 in china. nio, which azon and elsewhere. it now also
has raised $2.1 billion in fund- has interests in property and fi-
ing, is aiming to build a net- nance, including a publicly listed
work of 1,200 mobile charg- real estate arm.
ing vans and 1,100 battery
swap stations by 2020. TONGHUA
LIAOYANG
SHENYANG
Wang Jian ★
BEIJING $3.1 BIL #766
genome sequencing
62 YINGKOU SHANGHAI Lu Xiangyang 
46 $3 BIL #791 automobiles,
DALIAN batteries
Wang Zhenhua 
LANGFANG $3 BIL #791 real estate
ZHAOYUAN
BAODING WEIFANG LONGKOU Simon Xie 
$3 BIL #791
WEIHAI online payment service
SHIJIAZHUANG BINZHOU
TAIYUAN DONGYING QINGDAO Cai Dongchen ★
$2.9 BIL #822 pharmaceuticals
LUANCHENG JINAN RIZHAO
HENGSHUI LINYI Ding Shizhong & family 
LIAOCHENG LIANYUNGANG HANGZHOU $2.9 BIL #822 sportswear
SUQIAN
WUZHONG XINXIANG ZHANGJIAGANG 24 Feng Hailiang 
ZHENGZHOU WUXI $2.9 BIL #822 diversified
HEZE NANTONG
Ke Zunhong & family 
YANZHOU
CHANGGE JIANGYIN $2.9 BIL #822 pharmaceuticals
XI’AN
SOFTWARE PARK HEFEI NANJING Wang Laichun 
LANZHOU $2.9 BIL #822
DANYANG
JIAXING TAIXING electronics components
XIAN LUOHE LIN’AN Wang Laisheng 
CHANGZHOU
NANYANG NINGBO $2.9 BIL #822
TONGXIANG electronics components
CHENGDU SHANGYU SHAOXING SUZHOU Ding Shijia 
WUHAN
ZHUJI YIWU $2.8 BIL #859 sportswear
WUJIANG QUZHOU TAIZHOU
Shi Yuzhu 
DAYE NANPING WENZHOU ZHUJI $2.8 BIL #859 online games,
NANCHANG investments
NINGDE
Gu Yuhua & family 
ZHANGSHU $2.7 BIL #887 furniture
CHANGSHA FUZHOU
CHONGQING Huang Wei 
QUANZHOU
GUANGZHOU R&F FC $2.7 BIL #887 real estate
ZHANG LI XINYU JINJIANG
GUANGZHOU HONG KONG Zhang Wenzhong ★
XIAMEN EXPATRIATES $2.7 BIL #887 retail
KUNMING HUIZHOU 19 8
GUIYANG DONGGUAN Zuo Hui ★
$2.7 BIL #887
SHUNDE SHANTOU
real estate services
CHAOZHOU
ANSHUN Chen Fashu 
FOSHAN PUNING $2.6 BIL #924 investments
Lam Kong 
YUNFU $2.6 BIL #924 pharmaceuticals
ZHONGSHAN
Shen Wenrong 
ZHUHAI $2.6 BIL #924 steel
MACAU Shen Yuxing ★
SHENZHEN $2.6 BIL #924 real estate
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Song Zuowen 
HAIKOU $2.6 BIL #924 aluminum,
diversified
Zhang Fan 
HAINAN ISLAND $2.6 BIL #924 touchscreens
Zhu Xingliang 
$2.6 BIL #924 construction
Liu Qiangdong Du Jiangtao & family 
$2.5 BIL #965 chemicals
NEWSMAKER: his e-commerce giant Jd.com reached an agree- Hui Lin Chit 
ment in may with the provincial government of shaanxi to build $2.5 BIL #965
china’s largest drone network. the company already has seven hygiene products
models of drones that carry packages along a fixed route, land- Sze Man Bok 

ing on pads in rural villages. one of the models can carry par- $2.5 BIL #965
cels weighing up to 66 pounds, while another can fly at up to 62 hygiene products

mph. once they land, Jd.com contractors deliver the orders.
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