Why Does China Dominate List of Self-Made Female Billionaires?

Beijing’s Jinbao Street, with its ritzy stores selling Lamborghinis and diamond-encrusted Rolexes, feels like a garish version of New York’s Fifth Avenue. And the woman who transformed this block of dilapidated houses into Beijing’s luxury-goods mecca has been the most recognizable face among the rising tide of Chinese female billionaires for nearly a decade.