On Thursday, it was the turn of Netease, an online gaming company run by William Lei Ding.

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More than 40 entrepreneurs including the likes of Ding Lei and Charles Zhang have made the Forbes China Rich List for nine years in a row. (See related story here.) Why do they have such staying power?

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