(XINHUA)

Ma Huateng, Chairman and CEO of Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings, a leading Internet company, topped the 3,000 Rich Chinese Family List released by Money Week magazine on July 22 with a wealth of 46.7 billion yuan ($7.6 billion).

The businessman, 42, co-founded Tencent in 1998. The company's first product, an instant message tool named Tencent QQ, boasted a total 784 million active users by the end of September 2012. Tencent's WeChat mobile community, released in 2011, reached 400 million active users at the end of June 2013.