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Jiang Wanmeng

Jiang Wanmeng (姜万勐) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Wanyan Electronic Systems in Hefei, Anhui, in 1993, building the world's first commercially produced VCD player.

Jianlong Steel

Jianlong Steel is the steel business of Beijing Jianlong Heavy Industry Group, a private Chinese group founded by Zhang Zhixiang that produced 36.99 million tonnes of steel in 2023.

Jianye

Jianye, formally Central China Real Estate Limited (建业地产), is a Chinese property developer founded by Hu Baosen in 1992 and concentrated almost entirely on Henan province, listing in Hong Kong in 2008.

Jin Leqin

Jin Leqin (金乐亲) is a Chinese businessman and OPPO co-founder who led the company's industrial design center and served as senior vice president until stepping back in 2021.

Jin Liangshun

Jin Liangshun (金良顺), born in 1954 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is a Chinese businessman who chaired Jinggong Group until all 11 of its bonds defaulted in 2019.

Jin Zhijiang

Jin Zhijiang (金志江) is a Chinese business executive, general manager of BBK Education Electronics in Dongguan and the leader behind the Xiaotiancai kids' phone watch.

Jinlake

Jinlake (金莱克) is a Chinese sportswear company founded in 1991 in Jinjiang, Fujian, by Ding Zhide, reaching sales of over 3 billion yuan around 2010.

Joyoung

Joyoung, also known as Joyoung Co., Ltd. (九阳), is a Chinese small kitchen appliance maker founded in 1994 in Jinan, Shandong, by Wang Xuning, inventor of the automatic home soybean milk machine.

JS Global Lifestyle

JS Global Lifestyle is a Hong Kong-listed household appliance group, listed in 2019, that owns the Joyoung, Shark, and Ninja brands and was built around Joyoung's 2017 acquisition of SharkNinja.

Juneyao Group

Juneyao Group (均瑶集团) is a private Chinese conglomerate founded in 1991 by three Wang brothers from Wenzhou and headquartered in Shanghai, best known for controlling Juneyao Air.

Junlebao Dairy

Junlebao Dairy is a Chinese dairy company based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, founded by Wei Lihua in 1995, ranked third in China by 2025 dairy retail sales.

Junyao Group

Juneyao Group (均瑶集团), also romanized Junyao Group, is a private Chinese conglomerate founded in 1991 by three brothers from Wenzhou, built on aviation and dairy drinks and controlling Juneyao Air.

Junyao Health

Junyao Health (均瑶健康), formally Juneyao Grand Healthy Drinks Co., Ltd., is a Chinese maker of room-temperature lactic acid bacteria drinks, controlled by Juneyao Group and listed in Shanghai since 2020.

K-Touch

K-Touch (天语) is a Chinese mobile phone brand of Beijing Tianyu Langtong, founded by Rong Xiuli in 2002 and China's top-selling domestic handset maker from 2007 to 2009.

Kao Ching-yuen (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation)

Kao Ching-yuen, also romanized Gao Qingyuan (高清愿), was a Taiwanese food-industry executive who founded Uni-President Enterprises in 1967 and built it into Taiwan's largest food conglomerate.

Kayou

Kayou (卡游) is a Chinese trading-card and pan-entertainment company founded by Li Qibin and headquartered in Shanghai, holding 71.1% of China's trading-card market by 2024 gross merchandise value.

Ken Chu

Ken Chu (Chu Ding-kai, 朱鼎健) is a Hong Kong-born businessman who took over Mission Hills Group, the world's largest golf resort operator, on his father's death in 2011.

King Liu

King Liu (Liu Chin-piao, 刘金标, 1934–2026) was a Taiwanese industrialist who founded Giant Manufacturing in 1972 in Taichung and built it into one of the world's largest bicycle makers.

Kuaile Group

Kuaile Group (Kuailu, 快鹿集团), formally Shanghai Kuaile Investment Group, was a Shanghai conglomerate that raised 43.4 billion yuan from the public and collapsed in 2016.

KUKA Home

KUKA Home (顾家家居), legally Jason Furniture (Hangzhou), is a Hangzhou-based Chinese maker of sofas and upholstered furniture and China's largest listed upholstered-furniture company by revenue.

Lai Jianping

Lai Jianping (赖建平) is a retired Haitian employee who became one of the condiment maker's largest individual shareholders, worth an estimated RMB 14 billion in 2025.

Lai Meisong

Lai Meisong (赖梅松), born 1970, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded ZTO Express in Shanghai in 2002 and has led it as CEO and, since 2013, chairman.

Lai Pen-mei

Lai Pen-mei (赖盆妹) was a Taiwanese businesswoman who, with her husband Yang Bing-yi, founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958 as a cooking-oil shop, later a soup dumpling chain.

Lao Wang

Lao Wang (捞王) is a Chinese hot pot restaurant chain headquartered in Shanghai, known for Cantonese-style pepper pork tripe chicken hot pot and founded in 2009.

Li Changren

Li Changren (黎昌仁) is a Chinese dental entrepreneur who founded Bybo Dental, one of China's largest private dental chains, after leaving a Jiangxi public hospital in 1993.

Li Miaoxing

Li Miaoxing (李妙行) is a Chinese businessman, younger son of Laoganma founder Tao Huabi, who has held 51% of the Guiyang chilli-sauce maker since 2014 and runs production.

Li Qibin

Li Qibin (李奇斌), born 1972 in Kaihua, Zhejiang, founded Kayou (卡游) in 2011; its trading cards took 71.1% of China's market by 2024, and he ranked 90th on the 2025 Hurun list.

Li Rucheng

Li Rucheng (李如成, born 1951) is a Chinese entrepreneur who built Youngor Group in Ningbo, Zhejiang from a 1979 garment factory into a Shanghai-listed apparel and investment conglomerate.

Li Weiguo

Li Weiguo (李卫国, born 1965) is a Chinese billionaire who founded Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology in 1995 and chairs it; Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion.

Li Xiang (Chinese entrepreneur)

Li Xiang (李想) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who founded the automotive website Autohome and, in 2015, Li Auto, a Beijing-based extended-range electric vehicle maker that passed one million cumulative deliveries in 2024.