Forbes list of China’s Successful People

This year, when it came to the Forbes magazine list of China’s most successful celebs, I guess the dauntless scored higher than the entertainers.

Olympians dominated the top of this year's ranking due to recent success of the Beijing Olympics in the world’s most populous nation.

The annual China celebrity list considers parameters like earnings and media appeal to decide the nation’s most accomplished stars. Here’s a list of our tremendous ten:

1. Basketballer Yao Ming, superstar centre for the NBA Houston Rockets, is the man on top for the sixth year now! Being the flag bearer in the Beijing Olympics, his exemplary Olympic performance augmented by some great propitious endorsement deals with Visa and McDonald’s make him the numer uno with the highest ‘exposure index”.

2. The only non-Olympian to make it to the coveted top five, Actress Zhang Ziyi has been given high acclaim for her acting skills in the movie, "Forever Enthralled". Her recent romantic ties with with Israeli media mogul Vivi Nevo has had the paparazzi going berserk and getting her to the second spot!

3. Yi Jianlian , Yao’s Olympic teammate, came third, playing for the NBA New Jersey Nets and appearing in ads like McDonalds and Nike, thus upping up his popularity.

4. Our winning Olympic lady in gild, Guo Jingjing, launched her way up with her high- profile with the grandson of late Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok and having appeared in ads like Coca – Cola , McDonald’s and Avon augmented her star status.

5. Stars aren’t stars if they don’t have the ability to shock you. Well, this holds good for our former world recorder Liu Xiang who shockingly withdrew from the Olympic preliminary race due to leg injury. He’s been in the news for traveling to the U.S for his surgery. He has retained his endorsements with Nike and Coca- Cola still.

6. The glamour world of acting had to get Beijing-born actor Jet Li to the sixth position. Known for his exceptional performance in ‘Hero’ and ‘The Warlords’, he has been in the news more so for being the philanthropist. His One Foundation has been a powerful force to reckon with disaster relief.

7. Zhao Wei, who also goes by the name Vicki Zhao ,became the cynosure of all eyes with his acting in the epic ‘Red Cliff’ set in the 2nd and 3rd centuries directed by Hong Kong-American John Woo. This film is also being nominated in the best film category in the 27th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony.

8. Fan Bingbing earned her publicity from a martial arts movie, ’Flash Point’ and a light hearted romantic comedy, ‘ Tao Hua Yun’. She has also been the face of Olay.

9. Endorsements of Motorola and Olay products have kept Zhou Xun pretty much in limelight. Apart from that, appearance in the film ‘Wa Pei’ got this internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer into the forefront.

10. Actress and singer Li Bingbing got into the Forbes tremendous ten with her acting caliber in ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ where she acts alongwith Jackie Chan. The Harbin native graduated from the Shanghai Drama Institute. She features in the Olay ads as well

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