LIU QING

WHY HER? Forbes magazine lists this 38-year-old Harvard graduate and former Goldman Sachs employee as one of the 25 most influential women in Chinese business. The daughter of Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi, she left banking to join Didi Chuxing as president in 2014. THE BIZ Last year Qing helped Didi Chuxing, the world’s largest ride-sharing company (founded by Cheng Wei—see opposite page), secure a US$1 billion injection from Apple and engineered the acquisition of Uber China, making the company the country’s undisputed king of mobile transport. THAT’S NOT ALL The mother of three also gave cancer the finger in 2015.