It was followed in the top 10 by Suning Appliances, whose major shareholder is Chinese billionaire Zhang Guiping, and Gome Appliances, which is controlled by jailed Chinese billionaire Wong Kwong Yu. (For information about the Forbes China Rich List, click here.) The association ranking is based on sales.

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Granted, the tale of the aristocratic Jen (played by Zhang Ziyi), her tangles with martial-arts masters Li Mubai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shulien (Michelle Yeoh, fresh from her recent successful turn as a Bond girl), and her torrid romance with rough-hewn Lo (Chang Chen) is not that gripping.

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