Year-ender: Businessmen who made headlines in China

Wu Jing

The Chinese actor played roles in two of the highest-grossing Chinese films in 2019, The Wandering Earth and My People, My Country, with box office returns respectively reaching 4.65 billion yuan ($650 million) and 2.99 billion yuan ($420 million).

Wu is also protagonist, director, and scriptwriter of Wolf Warriors Two, which still reigns as China's highest-grossing film with box office earnings of 5.64 billion yuan.