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These Chinese women are seven in a billion
CHINA, BEIJING: Chinese women still lack clout in politics, but fortune is certainly smiling on them: Half of the world's 14 self-made female billionaires are China-born.
And these women did not inherit their wealth, but created it on their own steam and gumption, according to the latest annual ranking by Forbes magazine.
The wealthiest of the lot, Ms Wu Yajun, made her US$3.9 billion (S$5.3 billion) fortune in real estate.
Madam Lei Jufang sells Tibetan medicine, while Ms Zhang Yin - also known as Ms Cheung Yan - turned paper recycling into a vast amount of cash.
The other billionaires on the Forbes list released last month are tobacco flavourings magnate Zhu Linyao (or Chu Lam Yiu), property tycoons Zhang Xin and Chen Lihua (Chan Lai Wa), and shopping mall mogul Xiuli Hawken.
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