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Samson Tam Wai-ho

Samson Tam Wai-ho (谭伟豪) is a Hong Kong electronics entrepreneur who co-founded Group Sense, maker of the Instant-Dict electronic dictionary, in 1988 and served in the Legislative Council from 2008 to 2012.

Sean Shi

Sean Shi (施永宏, Shi Yonghong) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded the Haidilao hot pot restaurant group in Jianyang, Sichuan, in 1994 with Zhang Yong and their wives.

Septwolves

Septwolves (七匹狼), formally Fujian Septwolves Industry, is a Chinese menswear company founded in Jinjiang, Fujian, listed in Shenzhen since 2004 and known for jackets, a category where it claims first place in market share.

Shang Ruoyun (Sanfer (帅丰电器))

Shang Ruoyun (商若云, born 1969) is a Chinese businesswoman who founded Zhejiang Sanfer Electric, an integrated-stove kitchen-appliance maker in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, in 1998, and took it onto the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2020.

Shang Xuebing

Shang Xuebing (商学兵) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded the express delivery company ZTO Express in 2002 and holds a 4.40% stake in its operating subsidiary.

Shanshan Group

Shanshan Group (杉杉集团) is a Chinese conglomerate founded by Zheng Yonggang in Ningbo, now a leading maker of lithium battery anode materials and LCD polarizers.

Shi Jianxiang

Shi Jianxiang (施建祥), born 1964, is a Chinese businessman who founded Shanghai Kuailu Investment Group, chief producer of Ip Man 3, later arrested in Las Vegas in 2021.

Shi Yonghong

Shi Yonghong (施永宏), also Sean Shi, born 1970, co-founded Haidilao hot pot in 1994 with Zhang Yong, chaired Yihai International until retiring in April 2026, and with wife Hailey Lee holds about 19.18% of Haidilao Group.

Shu Da Xia

Shu Da Xia (蜀大侠) is a Chinese hot pot restaurant chain founded in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 2015, built around a martial-arts theme and hundreds of franchise stores.

Shu Ping

Shu Ping (舒萍) is a Singapore-based businesswoman who co-founded the Haidilao hot pot restaurant chain in 1994 and has chaired its overseas arm, Super Hi International, since 2023.

Shuanghui Development

Shuanghui Development is a Shenzhen-listed Chinese meat processing company based in Luohe, Henan, controlled by WH Group and known for buying the American pork producer Smithfield in 2013.

Shuanghui Group

Shuanghui Group (双汇集团), also known as Shineway Group, is a Chinese meat-processing company based in Luohe, Henan Province, best known for its Shuanghui-brand ham sausages and for acquiring Smithfield Foods in 2013.

Shuanghui International (company)

Shuanghui International is the former name of WH Group Limited, the pork-processing holding company led by chairman Wan Long that acquired Smithfield Foods for $7.1 billion in 2013.

Shunji Hardware Store

Shunji Hardware Store (顺记) was a Shanghai trading house founded in 1862 by Ye Chengzhong, the first Chinese-owned firm in the city dealing in imported hardware.

Sichuan Teway Food Group

Sichuan Teway Food Group (四川天味食品集团), shortened to Teway Food, is a Chengdu-based compound seasoning maker known for its Haorenjia and Dahongpao hotpot base and cooking sauces.

Skyworth Group

Skyworth Group (创维集团) is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese consumer electronics group founded by Huang Hongsheng in Shenzhen in 1988, known for televisions and, since 2025, photovoltaics.

Song Wei

Song Wei (宋伟) is a Chinese beverage entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Zhejiang Youxianggu in Changshan, Zhejiang, known for creating Song You Juice, a dual-pomelo drink that grew to 1 billion yuan in sales by 2024.

Song Weiping

Song Weiping (宋卫平, born 1958) is a Chinese property developer who co-founded Greentown China, a Hangzhou-based builder of luxury homes, in 1995 and led it until 2019.

Sound Group

Sound Group (桑德集团), formally Beijing Sound Environmental Protection Group, is a Chinese environmental protection and new energy group founded by Wen Yibo and based in Beijing.

Su Zengfu (Supor Group)

Su Zengfu (苏增福), born 1941, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Supor Group in Yuhuan, Zhejiang, in 1994, building China's largest cookware maker before selling control to France's Groupe SEB in 2006–07.

Subor

Subor (小霸王, "Little Overlord") is a Chinese education-electronics brand founded in 1987 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, whose Famicom-clone learning machines held about 80% of China's domestic market in the mid-1990s.

Sun Hongbin

Sun Hongbin (孙宏斌) is a Chinese real estate developer, founder and chairman of Sunac China Holdings, a Tianjin-based developer listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Sun Weiyong

Sun Weiyong (孙伟勇, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Entive, an integrated-stove maker in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, that listed on the Shenzhen ChiNext board in December 2020.

Sun Yansheng

Sun Yansheng (孫燕生), also known as Edmund Sun, is a Chinese-American semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Weitek and C-Cube and co-founded Wanyan, maker of the first commercial VCD player.

Sunac China Holdings

Sunac China Holdings (融创中国) is a Chinese property developer founded by Sun Hongbin in 2003, which defaulted on offshore bonds in 2022 and restructured its debt.

Suning

Suning (苏宁), formerly Suning Appliance, is a Chinese electronics and appliance retail group founded by Zhang Jindong in Nanjing in 1990, which entered court-supervised restructuring in 2025.

Super Hi International

Super Hi International (特海国际) is a Singapore-headquartered company that operates Haidilao hot pot restaurants outside Greater China, listed in Hong Kong since 2022 and on NASDAQ since 2024.

Supor (company)

Supor (苏泊尔) is a Chinese cookware and small kitchen appliance maker founded in 1994 by Su Zengfu, headquartered in Hangzhou and controlled by France's Groupe SEB since 2007.

Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration

Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration is a Chinese interior decoration contractor founded in Suzhou in 1993 by Zhu Xingliang and first listed in China's building decoration industry, on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2006.

Taikang Life Insurance

Taikang Life Insurance (泰康人寿) is a Beijing-headquartered Chinese life insurer founded in 1996, wholly owned by Taikang Insurance Group and controlled by founder Chen Dongsheng.