Wealth, Bribes and Lies: Ten Years Of Tracking China's Richest

The early 2000s were a key stretch in China?s march to wealth after Deng Xiaoping set the world?s most populous nation on a reform course in the 1970s.   China gained entry to the World Trade Organization, paving the way for tremendous expansion in international trade.  Then little-known start-ups like Baidu were just getting off the ground, and the web and mobile communications boom that today ranks the country No. 1 in users of both was still relatively young.