Zhang, who with husband Pan Shiyi co-founded Soho, ranked No. 21 on the 2012 Forbes China Rich List released this month.

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And on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, Pan Shiyi, a real estate magnate, called for the country to adopt its own Clean Air Act.

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Less significant, but no less interesting, is the fact that Yang Lan, a media entrepreneur and Pan Shiyi, a property developer, are the most popular microbloggers on the list, with more than 10m followers each.

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People like Li YanHong and Robin Li, founders of Baidu.com, or famed entrepreneur Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba group, which owns the most popular e-commerce sites, or Pan Shiyi and wife Zhang Xin, the Donald Trumps of China.

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