5 of China’s richest men in 2025 – net worths, ranked: from the founder of TikTok’s parent company to Tencent’s Pony Ma and the CEO of Tesla’s battery supplier … but No 1 isn’t a tech entrepreneur

Zhang Yiming started ByteDance in a Beijing apartment, while Colin Huang’s PDD is now one of China’s largest e-commerce platforms – here are the 5 who top the rich list, according to Forbes With Chinese tech companies such as Tencent and ByteDance – TikTok’s parent company – making their mark at home and around the world, their founders have consis…