4) Jack Ma – Net worth: $22.7 Billion (China)

The founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., one of the world’s biggest e-commerce companies. Ma a former English teacher made headlines in September 2014 with the record-breaking $25 billion IPO of Alibaba Group on the New York Stock Exchange. He started the Hangzhou, China-based company in his apartment in 1999.

3) Wang Jianlin – Net worth: $24.2 Billion (China)

Wang Jianlin is the wealthiest man in mainland China. The Sichuan native and former Chinese soldier is chairman of Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate and China’s biggest commercial real estate developer  in 1989 at the age of 35. He now owns 75 department stores, 85 shopping plazas and 51 five-star hotels.