Blockbuster release! Barron China's 2021 Under 40 Investment Elite List

In 2021, the world of investors entered another "Roaring Twenties." The pandemic, geopolitical struggles, climate and demographic changes... needless to say, we are facing a richer unknown and more complex challenges. As the paradigms of business models and value aesthetics are rewritten, the capital market is inevitably embarking on another long journey of competition and cooperation. A hundred years ago, Barron's was founded, starting to observe and record everything in the world from the perspective of investors. In the vicissitudes of the last century, a series of outstanding companies were conceived, grew, and rose, and generations of outstanding investors have poured out their wisdom, pushing the prosperity of the financial market to a height that people had never imagined. Historical experience shows that smart investors always respond to every global crisis, technological change, and transformation of social needs. They have gained a lot from it, creating returns for countless investors, and more importantly, they have provided funds for the most vibrant technologies and industries of their times, supporting crises, accompanying hardships, and accelerating the return of prosperity. Today, 100 years later, China is in such a great era with the prelude just unveiled. The middle-aged force of China's investment community is bound to take on those indispensable roles in the new cycle and achieve extraordinary careers. Therefore, in the third year after entering the Chinese market, the Chinese version of Barron's launched the annual selection of "Top 40 Under 40 Investment Elites." This list aims to look for young and middle-aged leaders under the age of 40 who may change the future of China's investment community from a forward-looking perspective. They or they have made great achievements in the industry or just showed their talents, but they are still young in the long and arduous world of investment. •The age condition for this year's "U40 Investment Elite" is born after January 1, 1981. •He or she directly or indirectly creates substantial returns for investors. •In the past year, they have been the implementers of some outstanding investment practices, leaders of some excellent investment teams, initiators of some important industry innovations, or elite who have made key contributions to the development of the industry. •The selected are now all serving in Chinese domestic investment institutions, or mainly conducting business in China. •This year's selection mainly examines the candidates from three aspects: investment practice and innovation, investment performance, and influence; the performance examination period is mainly in 2021, and it goes back two years. In addition, Barron's China "U40 Investment Elite" has broken the common boundaries between the venture capital field and the stock market, including outstanding people from different investment stages, methods, and markets in the selection range. For candidates from the VC/PE industry, the focus is on the investment projects, investment amounts, exit returns, and typical cases of the candidates; Barron's has a particular emphasis on the number of IPOs. For fund managers in the secondary market, factors such as management scale, performance returns, industry influence, and the performance of representative funds are comprehensively considered. At the same time, the list also takes into account the diversity of the sub-fields and achievement quadrants of the selected. We wish this year's selected to achieve new results in 2022 and the future. We believe that this generation of Chinese young investment elites has the hope to lead the direction of the tide, their creative decisions and practices will accompany the growth of excellent companies, and affect more people's investment and life.