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Yue-Sai Kan ( 靳羽西; born in Guilin Guangxi 广西桂林) is a Chinese American television host and producer, entrepreneur, bestselling author and humanitarian. People magazine named her "the most famous woman in China".

Others disagreed. “Li Ziqi only shows the underdeveloped aspect of China to foreigners,” one user said. “We Chinese don’t live that way.”

Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and...

Chinese recipient of Huang Xiangmo（黄向墨） political donation gets suspended death sentence  By Kirsty Needham Beijing: Long before he courted controversy for his Australian political donations, high profile Chinese Australian...

Wang Shi (王石, born in 1951 Guangxi Province, China) is a Chinese businessman. He is the Founder and Chairman of China Vanke, the largest real estate enterprise in China and the largest residential real estate developer in the world.

Zhao Liying ( 赵丽颖; born on 16 October 1987), also known as Zanilia Zhao, is a Chinese actress. She is currently the highest paid Chinese TV actress, earning over...

Lin Jianhua (林建华 Lín Jiànhuá; born October 1955) is a Chinese chemist who has served as President of Peking University since 2015. 

Jay Chou (周杰伦; born 18 January 1979) is a Taiwanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and director. In 2000, Chou released his debut album, titled Jay (2000), under...

Li Ka-shing, GBM, KBE, JP (李嘉诚, born 29 July 1928 in Chaozhou, China) is a Hong Kong business magnate and investor. According to Forbes, as of March 2016 Li is the richest person in Hong Kong.

His release coincided with the ongoing protests against extradition bill. Upon his release, Wong criticized the oppression against protesters by the Hong Kong police, and the extradition draft law as pro-Beijing and called for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam to resign.

Wu Jinglian (吴敬琏; born January 24, 1930) is one of the preeminent economists of PR China, primarily specializing in economic policy as it applies to China's ongoing series of economic reforms. Renowned for his...

Xiao Jianhua (Chinese: 肖建华, born c. 1972) is a Hong Kong-based Chinese-Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. According to news report, He is the true owner of Tomorrow...

Song Zuying (宋祖英)was born August 13, 1966 in Guzhang County, part of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan. She is of Miao ethnicity. She studied at...

Smartisan's CEO wants to be the next 'Steve Jobs of China' Xiaomi's regular channeling of Apple -- from its stage presentations all the way to disguising Aperture's icon...

Chen Danqing (born 11 August 1953, Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic. He was well known for his realist paintings of Tibetans. Chen graduated from China Central...

He Jiankui (贺建奎; born 1984) is a Chinese biomedical researcher who is an associate professor in the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. He became widely...

Huang Rulun (黄如伦) is a Chinese billionaire, head of the privately held real estate developer, Century Golden Resources Group. In May 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth at...

Shi Yuzhu (Chinese: 史玉柱) is a Chinese entrepreneur and software engineer. Shi was born in Huaiyuan County, Anhui Province, in the People's Republic of China in 1962....

Li Xiaolin (李小琳) was born in 1961 to Li Peng, then an electrical engineer, and Zhu Lin, a Russian-language translator. She was the second of Li Peng's...

Wei Jingsheng (魏京生; born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement.