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Xiang Guangda
Xiang Guangda (项光达) is the Chinese founder of Tsingshan Holding Group, the world's largest stainless steel producer, which he built from a 1988 Wenzhou workshop into a Fortune Global 500 company.
Xiangpiaopiao
Xiangpiaopiao (香飘飘) is a Chinese beverage maker founded in Huzhou, Zhejiang, in 2005, best known for creating China's cup milk tea category and holding its No.1 market share from 2012 to 2024.
Xiaohuanggou
Xiaohuanggou (小黄狗) is a Chinese smart waste-sorting and recycling company founded in Dongguan in 2017, operating internet-connected machines that pay users for deposits of recyclables.
Xiaotiancai
Xiaotiancai (小天才), also sold abroad as Imoo, is a Dongguan-based children's-electronics company founded in 2010 that makes phone watches, tablets, and early-learning machines, sold as Imoo abroad.
Xidelong
Xidelong (喜得龙) is a Chinese sportswear brand founded by Lin Shuipan in Jinjiang, Fujian, which became the first Chinese sports brand on NASDAQ in 2009.
Xie Huancheng
Xie Huancheng (谢焕城) is a Chinese beverage entrepreneur who founded the 7分甜 mango-drink chain, started as a Shanghai dessert shop in 2006 and renamed in 2015.
Xinyi Glass
Xinyi Glass Holdings (信义玻璃控股有限公司), also known as Xinyi Boli, is a Hong Kong-listed glass manufacturer founded by Li Xianyi in 1988, producing float, automobile, and architectural glass and holding a major stake in Xinyi Solar.
Xtep
Xtep (特步) is a Chinese multi-brand sportswear company founded in 2001 in Jinjiang, Fujian, by Ding Shuibo, known for its 160X running shoes and listed in Hong Kong since 2008.
Xu Dong
Xu Dong (许东) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Shenzhen Noah Industrial in 1999, maker of Noah electronic dictionaries, and led Noah Education Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange.
Xu Guanju
Xu Guanju (徐冠巨, born 1961) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded Transfar Group with his father in 1986 and chairs the chemicals and logistics conglomerate.
Xu Jiayin
Xu Jiayin (许家印, Hui Ka Yan) is the Chinese property developer who founded Evergrande in 1996.
Xu Jingnan
Xu Jingnan (许景南), born 1955, is a Chinese entrepreneur from Quanzhou, Fujian, who founded and chairs Peak Sport Products, the basketball-focused sportswear brand started in 1989.
Xu Lihua
Xu Lihua (徐立华), born 1963, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Ningbo Bird, the handset maker whose phones outsold Motorola and Nokia in China in 2003.
Xu Shihui
Xu Shihui (许世辉) is the Chinese founder, chairman, and CEO of Dali Foods Group, a snack food and beverage maker in Quanzhou, Fujian, founded in 1989.
Xu Shilei
Xu Shilei (徐世磊), born in 1992, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the new-Chinese-style fresh-milk tea brand 茶理宜世 in Guangzhou in 2017, growing it to 548 stores by 2025.
Yan Bin
Yan Bin (严彬), also known as Chanchai Ruayrungruang, is a Chinese-Thai businessman born in 1954 who founded Reignwood Group in Bangkok in 1984 and built Red Bull's China business.
Yan Jianya
Yan Jianya (严建亚) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Giant Biogene, a Xi'an recombinant collagen company, in 2000 and serves as its chairman and CEO.
Yan Zhou
Yan Zhou (晏周), born 1987 in Changsha, is a Chinese retail entrepreneur who founded the Busy For You snack chain and merged it with Zhao Yiming Snacks in 2023.
Yang Bing-yi
Yang Bing-yi (杨秉彝), born Yang Ming-hsing, was a Taiwanese restaurateur who founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958 and built it into a global dumpling chain.
Yang Lijuan
Yang Lijuan (杨利娟), born 1978 in Sichuan, is a Chinese restaurant executive who rose from waitress to chief executive of the hot pot chain Haidilao.
Yang Minggui
Yang Minggui (杨明贵) is a Chinese consumer-electronics entrepreneur who was general manager of Subor, helped found BBK in 1995, and founded the VCD maker Jinzheng in Dongguan in 1997.
Yao Kuizhang
Yao Kuizhang (姚奎章, born 1965) is a Chinese beverage executive who led a 58-employee buyout of a state plant in 2005 and built Six Walnuts into China's best-known walnut milk brand.
Yao Liangbai
Yao Liangbai (姚良柏, born 1969) is a Chinese co-founder of Oppein Home Group, a leading custom home-furnishing maker, serving as vice chairman, vice president, and Party committee secretary.
Yao Liangsong
Yao Liangsong (姚良松, born 1964) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Oppein Home Group, one of China's largest custom kitchen cabinet makers, in Guangzhou in 1994.
Yao Xinquan
Yao Xinquan (姚新泉) is a Chinese business executive and director of Dun'an Holding Group, a private industrial group founded in Zhejiang in 1987, where he holds a 29.40% stake.
Ye Chengzhong
Ye Chengzhong (叶澄衷, 1840–1899) was a Chinese hardware merchant from Ningbo known as the "Hardware King" of Shanghai, and a philanthropist who founded the Chengzhong school.
Ye Meilan
Ye Meilan (叶美兰) is a Chinese beverage entrepreneur, co-founder and chairman of Huierkang Group, a Xiamen food-and-drink company founded in 1992 that makes grain drinks and dairy products.
Yihai International
Yihai International (颐海国际) is a Chinese compound seasoning company making hot pot condiments and ready-to-eat foods, spun off from Haidilao founder Zhang Yong's supply business and listed in Hong Kong in 2016.
Yili Group
Yili Group, also known as Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, is a dairy company headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and China's largest dairy producer, first in Asia.
Yin Mingshan
Yin Mingshan (尹明善), born January 1938, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Lifan Group in Chongqing in 1992 at age 54, building it into one of China's largest motorcycle producers.