Gome Electrical Appliance Chairman Huang Guangyu in his office under his company's logo, in Beijing, China, on January 20, 2006. Huang became China's youngest self-made billionaire after building a single appliance store into China's biggest electronics retailer.
After talking about poor Chinese, it seemed only natural to report about the other extreme of the social scope: the billionaires. In the beginning of 2006, we tracked down Chinese billionaires, who already compete with the most wealthy fortunes of the West. One difference, though: they were poor when they were young. And they remember. The photos got published in International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
