WANG TAO, DJI’s chairman of the board, ranked ninth place on a list of self-made billionaires under 40 years old released by Hurun Report on Tuesday.

The list contains self-made billionaires under 40 years old from all around the world. It is the second consecutive year that the Hurun Research Institute has released such a list.

All 47 billionaires on the list built up their wealth without inheriting family fortunes.

These bil-lionaires are on average 36 years old and come from eight different countries.

Wang, 37, possesses 45

percent of the shares in DJI Technology. The Shenzhen-headquartered drone company is a leader in the civil-ian drone market. One of its

products, DJI Phantom, is by far the most popular drone, and the company recently launched its fi rst palm-sized drone, SPARK, in New York.

The CEO and chief researcher of Hurun Report, Rupert Hoogewerf, said the young generation of Chinese entre-preneurs is making impressive progress in innovation and nearly 80 percent of success-ful entrepreneurs come from China and the United States.

The top four billionaires on the list are from Facebook, with Mark Zuckerberg ranking fi rst with a fortune of nearly 400 billion yuan (US$58.86 billion), followed by Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker.

The CEO of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel became the youngest self-made billionaire on the list at age 26. The other top 10 bil-lionaires come from either Uber or Airbnb. (Zhang Qian)

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Thursday July 6, 2017

At a Glance

A LIVE-IN nanny in a Nanshan District household, who was caught slapping the family’s baby on the face before trying to snatch the infant, is suffering from mental illness, according to Kangning Hospital showed.

The nanny, identifi ed as Luo, was taken by her employer, sur-named Liang, to the hospital after the accident, Chinese-language media reported yesterday.

Liang hired Luo through a domestic service agency, Youfu Mama, on June 24, and fi ve days later Luo had a psychotic episode.

Liang was in his bedroom when he heard screams for help

in the early morning of June 29. “I ran out to the living room and saw our nanny attempt to snatch my child,” Liang said, adding that he immediately subdued and took her to a bedroom.

Liang became more concerned after seeing Luo smiling eccentri-cally during their conversation in the room.

However, Youfu Mama denied any knowledge of Luo’s mental condition, saying that her pre-employment physical examina-tion showed she was in good shape.

The domestic service agency accused Luo and her family of intentionally hiding her mental

health history. A person in charge of Yofu Mama said that Luo claimed to have no pre-exist-ing conditions when they signed the labor contract.

After the incident in Liang’s home, Luo’s family admitted that she had been suffering from postnatal depression.

According to experts at the Shenzhen household service association, law prohibits the employment of mental patients in household services. The cur-rent health examination system for nannies, however, does not include examinations for mental conditions.

(Chen Manqi)

Parasol banBEACHGOERS are not allowed to bring their own beach parasols and tents into Dameisha Beach Park due to “safety concerns,” according to the management offi ce of Dameisha Beach Park in Yantian District. The park management offi ce said parasols and tents, which have unifi ed designs and meet relevant safety standards, are available for rent in the park. The offi ce denied that the park makes a profi t by put-ting advertisements on the parasols and tents.Offi cial prosecutedTHE city’s procuratorate pressed charges against Wang Yang, former presi-dent and Party chief of Shen-zhen Airport Group, and his nephew, Wang Feng, for alleged corruption, accord-ing to sznews.com. Wang Feng was the general man-ager of a Shenzhen cosmetics company. Wang Yang and Wang Feng were probed last December. No other informa-tion was given.Woman savedA WOMAN was saved by a patrolling security guard after she jumped into a river to commit suicide recently in Bao’an District. The woman was seen weeping in a bush after midnight June 23 before jumping into the river. She was taken to Songgang Peo-ple’s Hospital for treatment. The woman had an argument with her boyfriend before trying to kill herself.

Baby-slapping nanny has mental illness

Eight students from Shenzhen University embark on a trip Tuesday to work in Tibet after they graduated from the university last month. They are volunteers in a program, which encourages university graduates to serve in western China. Five other graduates will work in Guangxi and Xinjiang. A total of 105 graduates from Shenzhen University from 2004 to 2016 joined the program to work in Guangxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet and other western provinces and autonomous regions as volunteers. Liu Yuejie

SZer on global list of self-made billionaires under 40

THE former head of Guangdong Provincial Environmental Pro-tection Department stood trial at the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court on June 29 over charges of taking more than 20 million yuan (US$2.94 million) in bribes, the Southern Metropo-lis Daily reported Tuesday.

Li Qing was accused of taking advantage of his position to take 22.54 million yuan, HK$520,000 (US$66,613) and US$90,000 in bribes during his tenure in the environmental protection department. He was promised company shares worth 10 million yuan from Zhang Weiyang, the former chairman of Dongjiang Environmental Co. Ltd.

Li was investigated under sus-picion of corruption in Novem-ber 2015.

According to the prosecutors, the two defendants became acquaintances in 2003. Li took advantage of his job to help Dongjiang get environmental permits for its projects and apply for government subsidies. In return, Zhang decided to give Li his shares worth 10 million yuan.

Li claimed that he had heard about the shares, but he turned down Zhang’s offer. However, the prosecutors refuted his claim, saying that it was incon-sistent with his confession when he was being investigated.

During the hearing, Li pleaded guilty to multiple charges at the court hearing but raised an objection to the accusation about Zhang’s suspected bribery. The hearing of the case continues.

Li had held high positions in Guangdong Provincial Statistics Bureau since 1982, and was appointed Chaozhou’s deputy Party chief in 1998. He started his tenure as the head of the Guangdong Provincial Environ-mental Department in 2004. In April, Li was prosecuted by the Shenzhen People’s Procuratorate shortly before his retirement.

Founded in Shenzhen in 1999, Dongjiang has been a leading company in the country’s envi-ronmental protection industry. The company saw its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003.

In 2005, Forbes ranked the fi rm among China’s top 100 promising listed companies. Zhang, the founder of Dongji-ang, was elected a member of the municipal people’s congress in Shenzhen and was once selected for the Hurun China Rich List.

It was reported in July 2016 that Zhang had resigned from the company and sold his shares to Guangsheng Asset Management Co. Ltd., a State-owned enter-prise. Since then, Dongjiang has been transformed into a State-owned company.

Ex-GD senior official stands trial for bribery

NANHAI Rose Garden, a resi-dential estate in Nanshan Dis-trict, has been surrounded by polluted seawater, according to an online post Monday.

The post complained about Shenzhen Water Group’s rain and sewage distribution network renovation projects in the Shekou area. Some pictures attached to the post show a signifi cant dif-ference between the discharged water and the seawater in the area near the estate.

A reporter with sznews.com found oil stains on the surface of the water in the area and a foul odor.

A resident, surnamed Chen, said the pollution is not notice-able in the afternoon because it is discharged into the bay in the morning and then diffuses.

Chen added that if the prob-lem isn’t solved, there would be no point in purchasing an apart-ment in the area.

Data from a real-estate website showed that the average price of an apartment in Nanhai Rose Garden is around 80,000 yuan (US$11,764) per square meter, and the price of apartments in the second phase of the estate is as high as 85,524 yuan per square meter.

According to a staffer with Shenzhen Water Group, the rain and sewage distribution project in the area can only divert sewage to the sewage plant during the dry season. When it rains and the rainwater culvert opens, rainwater and sewage are mixed together, which leads to the current situation.

“There is a rain culvert below the Nanhai Rose Garden, which is used to collect both rainwa-ter from Park South Road and residents’ sewage water. When there is a downpour, we have to open the gate to avoid a fl ood, and that’s how the rain and

sewage are mixed together,” said the employee with the group.

The Nanshan Environmental Protection and Water Resources Bureau said that renovation of drainage networks was under way.

As of June 30, the author-ity had completed work in 38 communities and plans to fi nish renovation in 44 other commu-nities in the Shekou area this year. Work in the remaining 14 communities in Shekou is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

(Zhang Yang, Lei Kaibin)

Seaside estate troubled by pollution

SZU graduates volunteer in Tibet

Wang Tao