NetEase.com Chief Executive Officer William Lei Ding laughes in his company's offices in Beijing, China, Friday, February 24, 2006.
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.