Billionaires

Tencent CEO Ma Huateng is the country’s highest-ranked person on the Global Rich List published Wednesday by Shanghai-based wealth research firm Hurun Report.

Acquisitive insurer sees plans stymied by financial controls and political infighting.

China is home to more self-made female billionaires than any other nation, according to Hurun Report.

Wang Wei, chairman of SF Holding—the FedEx of China—has seen his fortune grow to around $27 billion, according to a Forbes estimate.

Beijing’s corruption crackdown drives rush for second citizenship 

Xiao Jianhua is one of several high-profile Chinese businessmen to go missing since China’s 2015 stock-market crash

The uncertain fate of Xiao Jianhua, a China-born billionaire who was last seen at a luxury Hong Kong hotel a week ago, has raised fresh fears about the city’s autonomy amid media reports he may have been abducted by Chinese agents.

Inspired in part by the Downton Abbey television drama, the country’s once raw and raucous tycoons are fueling demand for the services of homegrown butlers trained in the ways of a British manor.

His recent book claims to give an inside look into his managerial philosophy and the values that turned his company into a giant conglomerate.

The chairman of the Chinese conglomerate said he was assisting an official investigation after he disappeared for a day last week.

Caixin magazine reported that Guo Guangchang, the billionaire chairman of Fosun International Ltd. couldn’t be contacted.

Jack Ma, Alibaba’s billionaire boss, wants to be a global media mogul.

China has a fast growing number of super-rich -- it created 242 billionaires in the past year alone.

On a recent morning at a butler-training school in Chengdu, China,;lessons began at 8 A.M.,with an exercise in “opening the villa.”

Wanda's billionaire chairman, Wang Jianlin, said the planned fund would work with the private sector to recreate Hollywood in China.

Wang Jianlin, owner of China’s biggest commercial land developer, is the nation’s wealthiest person, based on regulatory filings that show his non-real estate businesses are more valuable than previously calculated. 

With the world’s second-largest economy in the midst of an extended slowdown, growth in the population of Chinese millionaires has fallen to its slowest pace in five years.