Latest 40 Chinese Business Elites under-40 released

Fortune (Chinese version) released the latest 40 Chinese Business Elites under-40 on Thursday.

Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of ByteDance, Xu Li, co-founder and CEO of image recognition startup SenseTime and Didi Chuxing CEO Cheng Wei, have positions on the list.

The 40 on the list come from different industries including recreation media, artificial intelligence, transportation, logistics, food, e-commerce, drug and agriculture, but many of which are related to the internet.

As many as 38 of the 40 were born in 1980s. Nine of the 40 are less than 35 years old including two who were born in 1990s.

Fortune said the 40 Chinese business leaders not only achieved in business but also tried every means in dealing with public issues to realize a win-win progress in terms of both enterprises and the society during the COVID-19 outbreak.