Hu Shuli | Salary Undisclosed

Hu Shuli is one of China’s media giants and is considered a great force. When it comes to journalism, business, and women empowerment, Shuli is always on top of the list. She has a reputation of being a savvy business journalist who is highly respected by the media and business industry. Her business Caixin Media, an independent news organization, established in 2010, received more than $800 million of venture capital fund that is associated with Robert Murdoch.

Shuli’s Century Weekly magazine, one of the titles under her media network, received a whopping amount of website traffic after the investment. Shuli is considered as one of the public individuals who are intelligent business- and career-wise. Aside from being a businesswoman, Shuli is a professor in the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University and the School of Journalism and Communication at the Renmin University of China.