Entrepreneurs, executives and investors, with careers traced through the companies they founded, led and backed.
A finance graduate of Renmin University of China who worked at ICBC for 30 years, he later served as vice president of China Life Group, deputy general manager of China Investment Corporation and general manager of Central Huijin, and became president of PICC Group in 2018.
Securities regulation and capital markets professional. She joined the China Securities Regulatory Commission in 2002 and spent years supervising listed companies, serving as deputy director of the M&A supervision division, director of the first supervision division and head of the accounting group in the listed-company supervision department. After leaving the regulator she became a senior advisor at King & Wood Mallesons and later chief executive of an asset management firm. She is qualified as a Chinese certified public accountant, a certified tax agent and an international business valuation analyst.
Founder of Hang Lung Group, which he established in 1960 as a property development business. He died in 1986, and his will directed that his estate be placed in a trust establishing the Chan Tseng-hsi Foundation.
Founder of Taikang Insurance Group.
Founder of Pinduoduo (PDD Holdings), which he launched in 2015; he formerly served as its chairman and chief executive officer.
Former deputy general manager of China Vanke Co., Ltd.
A real estate market researcher who hosts the annual "Ding Zuyu Reviews the Property Market" conference and shares views on industry trends.
Former Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2005–2012).
Born in July 1946 and educated at Tsinghua University, he joined Stone Group in 1985 and became its president in 1991; around 2000-2001 he led the restructuring of the Stone group of companies and was involved in capital operations at Sina and Zhongguancun Technology.
Succeeded founder He Xiangjian as chairman of Midea Group in 2012 and serves as its chairman and president, leading the company's digital and industrial transformation.
Born in March 1957 and holding a doctorate in ocean engineering from Brunel University, he chaired China Merchants Group (and China Merchants Bank) from August 2010 to April 2014, then chaired China Resources Group from 2014 until his retirement in 2020.
Served as Vice Chairman and General Manager of China Investment Corporation from September 2007 to February 2014.
Former Mayor of Beijing.
Real estate executive who joined Vanke in 1990, served as founding editor of Vanke Weekly and general manager of Tianjin Vanke, and was once seen as Wang Shi's successor; he moved to Beijing Huayuan in 2000 and later became general manager of China Resources Land's Beijing company and an executive director of China Resources Land.
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Overseas Land & Investment Limited, signing company reports in that capacity between 2014 and 2016.
Founder of Midea Group, which he started in 1968; he handed the chairmanship to Fang Hongbo in 2012 and was named a "Pioneer of Reform" by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in 2018.
Hong Kong entrepreneur (1923–2006) and former vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, involved in property development and sports philanthropy.
Economist. He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) from 1978 to 1982 and in 1986 was among the first people named national experts with outstanding contributions. From the 1980s he helped originate and advance dual-track pricing, and later played a significant role in debates on state asset management and the split-share structure reform. His awards include the Sun Yefang Economics Prize and the China Economic Theory Innovation Award.
Former mayor of Chongqing and former vice chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, later an academic advisor to the China Finance 40 Forum and author of several books on China's economy.
Co-founded Yingxin Xinheng, a property development company in China, with Tian Hong and formerly held equity in it.
Former chairman and chief executive officer of China Overseas Land & Investment, who led the company as chairman around 2010.
Hong Kong businessman who founded Henderson Land Development, retired as its chairman in 2019 and died in 2025.
Founder of Cheung Kong (Holdings) and Hong Kong entrepreneur. He left school early to work before starting his own business; his businesses span more than 50 countries, and on retiring in 2018 he handed the core family businesses to his elder son Victor Li.
Founder of Himalaya Capital and investor; a long-term BYD shareholder since 2002 who brought about Berkshire Hathaway's 2008 investment in BYD.
Born in 1973, Li Miao is a senior accountant who served as a director and chief financial officer of Shenzhen Metro Group and, from July 2020, as a supervisor of China Vanke.
Founder of Youngor who served as its chairman for many years; in April 2026 he said a new generation would run the company after the board reshuffle.
A co-founder of Mindray Medical and the company's chairman.
Former chairman of Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.
Former Party Secretary and Chairman of Shenzhen Metro Group, who stepped down in October 2017 upon reaching retirement age; during his tenure Shenzhen Metro became the largest shareholder of Vanke, and he also served as Vice Chairman of Vanke's board.
Former editor-in-chief of Vanke Weekly and a former manager at China Vanke.
An early shareholder of Vanke.
Chairman and CEO of China Investment Corporation from September 2007 to March 2013, and Minister of Finance of China from 2013 to 2016.
Former chairman of China Taiping Insurance Group and of PICC Group; he was removed from his post as PICC Group party secretary in February 2023.
Founder of Ping An Insurance, who has long served as its group chairman, growing it from a regional insurer in Shekou, Shenzhen into a large integrated financial group.
Former Politburo member who served as Party Secretary of Shenzhen, Governor of Guangdong and Party Secretary of Xinjiang; placed under investigation in April 2026 and expelled from the Party and public office in July 2026.
Former Senior Vice President of China Vanke and General Manager of Beijing Vanke, who after leaving Vanke founded the co-working operator Ucommune in April 2015.
Born in January 1965, he was formerly president of China Life Insurance (Group) and chairman of PICC Group, and since July 2020 has been chairman of China Merchants Group, concurrently chairing China Merchants Bank.
Ming Z. Mei is co-founder and CEO of GLP and founder and CEO of alternative asset manager GLP Capital Partners; he is also a co-founder of Zhongding Venture Capital. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and HKUST Business School, and a bachelor's degree in finance from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Former Managing Director of Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung Properties; joined Hang Lung in 1978, became an Executive Director of Hang Lung Properties in 1986, was appointed Managing Director of Hang Lung Group in 1992 and retired in July 2010; became a Non-Executive Director of Hang Lung Properties in March 2011 and was re-designated Independent Non-Executive Director in November 2014.
Chinese state-owned enterprise executive who successively headed China Resources, COFCO and Sinochem.
Born in 1980, he joined Vanke in 2004 after earning a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, and serves as an employee representative supervisor of Vanke and a partner of its Southern Region Business Group.
Hong Kong solicitor and long-serving former independent non-executive director of Hang Lung, who retired at the 2021 annual general meeting under the board's age limit and agreed to serve as adviser to the chairman for two years.
Hong Kong businessman, son of Hang Lung founder Chan Tseng-hsi and longtime former chairman of Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung Properties; he helped found several Hong Kong think tanks and co-founded the Morningside Foundation with his brother Gerald Chan in 1997.
A key founder of Shaw Brothers Studio and Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB).
Founder and long-time head of Greentown China, who in 2014 sold part of his Greentown stake, together with his wife and Shou Bainian, to Sunac China.
Founder and chairman of Sunac China, long active in real estate development and acquisitions; he earlier led Shunchi Real Estate.
Former chairman of China State Construction, who pledged at the company's pre-IPO roadshow to step up support for China Overseas Land & Investment after listing.
Co-founded Yingxin Xinheng, a property development company in China, with Jia Xinyao and was formerly one of its registered shareholders.
Tung Chee-hwa served as the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from 1997 to 2005.
He formerly led China Taiping from 2012 to 2018 and moved to China Life as chairman in September 2018.
China Merchants Bank executive who was promoted from Executive Vice President to President of the bank in April 2022.
Founder of China Vanke, which he chaired from 1988 until 2017 before becoming honorary chairman of its board; in 2020 he became honorary chairman of the council of the Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health.
Veteran financial executive born in October 1971, formerly vice president of PICC Asset Management, general manager and chairman of China Merchants Fund, and executive vice president and executive director of China Merchants Bank; after leaving the bank in August 2025 he became Party secretary and general manager of China Merchants Financial Holdings (as of April 2026).
Former President of PICC Group; taken for investigation in January 2017 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for bribery in May 2018.
Joined Hang Lung Group in 2018 and formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung Properties.
Co-founder and Executive Chairman of PAG; earlier, at Newbridge Capital, he led the acquisitions of Korea First Bank and Shenzhen Development Bank.
Born in June 1966, a senior engineer and senior economist who spent his career in Shenzhen's state-owned system, heading Shenzhen Metro Group from 2017; he joined Vanke's board as a non-independent director in June 2020, became its vice chairman in October 2023 and chairman in January 2025, resigned as Vanke chairman in October 2025 and stepped down as Shenzhen Metro chairman in April 2026.
Chairman of Gemdale Corporation (in office as of May 2026), who set out a cash-flow-centred strategy focused on the core business, a mix of heavy and light asset operations, and cost reduction at the company's 2026 results briefing.
He graduated from Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering in 1989 and earned an MBA from Peking University's Guanghua School of Management in 2000. He held positions at China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Longfor Properties, and from 2017 served as executive director and chief executive officer of China Overseas Land & Investment, also as chairman from June 2017.
A finance professional who joined China Vanke in 1990, became its general manager (president) in 2001 and succeeded Wang Shi as chairman in June 2017; he stepped down as chairman in January 2025 and left all Vanke positions on 8 January 2026.
Co-founder of Haier, former chairman of its board of directors, and currently honorary chairman of Haier Group's board of directors.
Former executive vice president and chief operating officer of China Vanke who helped drive Vanke's logistics real estate business; later served as chief partner of Vanke's logistics business unit (VX Logistics).
Founder and former chairman of Greenland Group.
Urban planning scholar who formerly served as deputy chief planner at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and as director of the Xiamen Planning Bureau (for 11 years from 2004), and later became a joint professor at Xiamen University's School of Architecture and Civil Engineering and School of Economics. He has long studied land finance, housing policy and urban development.
Former general manager of Poly Capital, involved in real estate equity investment; in a 2022 interview Zhou said the firm treats real estate project equity investment as its cornerstone business and was exploring a distressed-asset development fund.
Former chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (2000–2002) and governor of the People's Bank of China (2002–2018).
Chairman, executive director and general manager of Onewo, formerly CEO of Vanke Property Services; from late 2022 he also served as a co-president of Vanke overseeing its operating-services businesses. He has driven Onewo's "Diecheng" (butterfly city) strategy and lean operations.
Former Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.