Year-ender: Businessmen who made headlines in China
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Liu Chuanzhi

The Lenovo founder, 75, announced his complete retirement as chairman of Legend Holdings this year.
Liu is well-known for founding Lenovo in 1984. In the past 35 years, the company acquired IBM's PC business in 2004 to gradually become the world's largest PC-maker. It also bought the cellphone brand Motorola from Google in 2014, and went public on the Hong Kong stock market in 2015.