He Qiaonv & family (何巧女夫婦)

Age: 45

2011 net worth (US$): 1.68 billion

2010 net worth (US$): 1.7 billion

General ranking: 50

Company: Beijing Orient Landscape Co., Ltd

Headquarters: Beijing

Title: Chairwoman

Main focus: Landscape architecture

He Qiaonv graduated with a bachelor's degree from Beijing Forestry University in 1988. She made her first fortune in 1990 when she helped her father, a businessman who traded flora and seedlings, to promote miniature landscaping to foreign businesses during an expo. She then grew her wealth by cultivating and selling flora, leasing bonsai landscape and house plants to five-star hotels, and undertaking large-scale real estate landscaping projects.

In 2000, He developed her former Orient Landscape Service Center into the powerful Beijing Orient Landscape Group, which specializes in landscape design, landscaping projects, landscape maintenance, sales of related construction materials and equipment, investment and asset management. Together with her husband, Tang Kai, she owns a 65.11 percent stake in the company.