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©Zhou Qunfei
Zhou Qunfei is the top of a list of self made female billionaires in China. Born in a rural part of China, she began working in a factory making watch lenses when she was a teenager. By the age of 22, she had started her own company making lenses, eventually gaining her success making the glass for touch screen enabled smartphones.