As Kylie Jenner makes Forbes’ super rich list, five young Chinese billionaires already on Forbes’ China Rich List

Kylie Jenner is likely to become America’s youngest self-made billionaire. China has a few of its own already; from the CEO of a ride hailing company to an airline heir, here are five who’ve made it onto Forbes’ China Rich List

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Kylie Jenner has made the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women. Photo: Reuters

Published: 6:22pm, 13 Jul 2018Updated: 7:42pm, 14 Jul 2018

US reality TV star Kylie Jenner, 20, with an estimated net worth of US$900 million, this week became the youngest person on the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women. And she’s expected to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever, a title held by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1987 at age 31 and by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2008, aged 23.

Young and rich is something China also does well. We look at five people who have hit the Forbes China Rich List and find out how they made their fortune.

Country Garden Holdings vice-chairman Yang Huiyan is worth US$24 billion. Photo: Forbes

Yang Huiyan (net worth: US$24 billion)

In 2007, aged just 25, Yang Huiyan inherited a majority stake in her father Yang Guoqiang’s giant property company, Country Garden, making her the richest woman in China at the time. At last count, she is worth US$24 billion, and now the richest woman in Asia.

Her father groomed her to take over the company and the 36-year-old did not disappoint. In 2017, Forbes placed her fourth in the China 100 Top Businesswomen List.