One of the world’s wealthiest self-made woman, Wu Yajun is a Chinese billionaire who spent six years working as a journalist before co-founding Longfor Properties in the early 1990s, a real estate development company that brought in $10.7 billion in revenue in 2017. Now she’s worth $8.34 billion.
She recently stepped down as Longfor chairperson and transferred her shares to her daughter, according to Forbes.
Wu went from working as a factory technician to amassing an $8.34 billion real estate empire.