Yin Tongyue
Age: 47
Chairman & General Manager, Chery
The son of farmers in Anhui, a poor province in central China, Yin worked for Chinese automaker FAW after graduating from college, and in the early 1990s was in charge of closing a Volkswagen plant in Pennsylvania and sending equipment back to China. In 1995 he joined Chery, building it from scratch into China's largest car exporter. The company exported 135,000 cars last year, half of the country's total, and last December it received $1.5 billion in funding from China's export-import bank to fuel further growth.
