Richest Chinese Zhang Yin

#11 Zhang Yin
Net Worth: $3.4 billion
Age: 50
Company: Nine Dragons Paper
Offices: Hong Kong, California
The richest self-made woman in the world. Daughter of a Guangdong Province army officer got finance job at foreign paper company; later struck out on own, importing waste paper, opening paper recycler. Zhang founded Nine Dragons in the mid-eighties and today owns 72% of its shares together with her Taiwan-born husband Liu Mingzhong and her brother Zhang Chengfei.