Richer than Kylie Jenner, in Alibaba founder Jack Ma’s contacts list – meet China’s self-made female billionaires empowering women in business, tech and finance
ICYMI, here are some of the most-read stories from STYLE’s growing female billionaire entrepreneur series.
Zhou Qunfei
Born in Hunan province and a permanent resident of Hong Kong, Zhou Qunfei is the founder and CEO of Hunan-based Lens Technology. Crowned as the queen of the smartphone touch screen, she worked her way up from the bottom and now boasts a net worth of US$15.1 billion. The 50-year-old Zhou is ranked No 211 on Forbes’ 2020 “The World‘s Billionaires” list and No 44 on its “China Rich List”.
Zhou Qunfei: the Chinese entrepreneur from a small village is now world’s richest self-made woman
Lilian Wu
Lillian Wu: the richest female self-made billionaire under 40
Li Ying
Often dubbed the “female Warren Buffett of China”, investment guru Li Ying has an estimated net worth of over US$1.4 billion. Although she’s now an independent agent, Alibaba founder Jack Ma once personally asked her three times to move from Silicon Valley to run Yunfeng Capital, Ma’s private equity firm, which she agreed to.
Beauty and billions – is Li Ying most eligible woman in China?
Lucy Liu Yueting, Anni Chen, and more
We’ve also documented where these self-made billionaires were educated. From fintech genius Lucy Liu Yueting, who established unicorn Airwallex, to Chen Anni, the founder of comic-reading platform Kuaikan Manhua, these brilliant female minds are behind some of China’s most significant innovations.
Where did these 5 Chinese self-made entrepreneurs go to university?
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Forbes’ 2020 World’s Billionaires reveals that China boasts the highest number of self-made female billionaires in the world – meet Zhou Qunfei, Lilian Wu and Li Ying, the ‘modern day Mulans’ behind tech companies like Lens Technology, Hakim Unique Internet, and more