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Monday, February 16, 2026

About Zhou Qunfei, China’s second richest woman – Ashley Dudarenok

Hong Kong-based marketing expert Ashley Dudarenok looks at China’s second-richest woman, according to the 2025 Hurun rich list. “Zhou’s story rebukes the notion that success is the product of privilege or pedigree. She is living proof that it is possible to rise from the depths of poverty to the highest echelons of wealth and influence,” writes Ashley Dudarenok at the Jing Daily.

Jing Daily:

In the pantheon of Chinese billionaires, there are tech titans, real estate moguls, and brand builders. And then there is Zhou Qunfei, a woman whose story is so raw, so improbable, it feels like a modern-day fairytale. The 55-year-old founder of Lens Technology is the second richest woman in China, with a staggering US$15 billion (110 billion RMB) fortune, according to the 2025 Hurun Rich List.
Her wealth surged 75% ($6.8 billion) from 2024 to 2025 following Lens Technology’s Hong Kong IPO in July 2025. But what makes her story truly remarkable is not merely her wealth but her ability to build a global empire from the ground up. Her journey demonstrates how foresight, relentless discipline, and hands-on leadership can turn a small workshop into an international industry powerhouse…
Zhou’s story rebukes the notion that success is the product of privilege or pedigree. She is living proof that it is possible to rise from the depths of poverty to the highest echelons of wealth and influence. Her empire was not built on a single brilliant idea or disruptive technology, but on the simple, unglamorous work of making things, perfecting a craft, and an unwavering refusal to give up.
She is the “touchscreen queen,” a true industry titan forged in the fires of adversity. She offers a powerful reminder that in the end, the most valuable asset a leader can possess is not a brilliant mind or a charismatic personality but an unbreakable spirit.

Friday, March 09, 2018

China dominates the woman self-made billionaires - Rupert Hoogewerf

Rupert Hoogewerf

Chinese women dominate the Hurun global self-made woman rich list, says Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf. The list is released on today's Women's Day, and has Zhou Qunfei of the Lens Technology firm as the topper, says the BBC.

The BBC:

China has once again dominated a list of global self-made woman billionaires.

The top four women in the report by publisher Hurun - and five of the top 10 - come from the Asian superpower.

Zhou Qunfei, who founded a firm that makes glass used to cover laptops and smartphones, was the world's richest self-made woman, with $9.8bn (£7.1bn).

Her company Lens Technology has contracts with some of the biggest technology firms, and counts Apple and Samsung as its main customers...

In total, 28 of the top 50 on the Hurun self-made list are from China.

Ms Zhou took the top spot from Beijing-based real estate developer Chen Lihua ($8.1bn).

Ms Chen, who runs Fu Wah International, slipped to third after her wealth barely changed since 2017.

Another property developer, Wu Yajun from the western city of Chongqing, moved into second place. She is worth $9.3bn after a staggering 83% leap in her fortune in just 12 months.

The richest self-made woman from outside China is American Diane Hendricks, the co-founder of Wisconsin-based ABC Supply, one of the US's largest distributors of roofing and windows.

More at the BBC.

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Friday, December 04, 2015

Zhou Qunfei, China´s ambitious richest woman - Rupert Hoogewerf

Rupert Hoogewerf

Zhou Qunfei, owner of Lens Technology, now China´s richest woman, is yet another rags-to-richest story from China. Ambition and success have been on her path, tells Hurun China´s rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf to the Australian Financial Review. Ambition and taking risk is what most rich women have in common, he says.

The Financial Review:

Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of Hurun, who has spent most of the past 18 years in China researching the country's wealthy, says driven, ambitious risk-takers such as Zhou, regardless of their gender, thrived as China opened up its economy to the world in the 1980s and 1990s, and all of a sudden people were allowed and even encouraged to make money.

"Women here have a lot of ambition," says the 45-year-old, who studied Chinese language and history in Britain before moving to Shanghai and setting up Hurun, which has become the definitive source of fortune rankings in the country.

"This group of women at the top is representative of a much larger base of women entrepreneurs underneath, and that's where the real story is. I don't feel that same sense of entrepreneurship among my female friends in Britain or even, in some cases, in the US. There is this sense that there is an opportunity to be seized here. Let's just go for it."...

"It turned out that [she is] probably the most successful self-made woman in the world," Hoogewerf says. "This is somebody that nobody in the world knew about this time last year. It's a phenomenal story."

More in the Australian Financial Review.

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