
They were all entrepreneurs, not "capitalists", or the capitalists without money. Throughout their lives, they had done nothing to do with robber barons; instead, they were all great virtuous men devoting themselves to helping boost Chinese national industry in its incipient stage. Please google to find their biographies if you are interested in their deeds.
What they did is the essence of the so-called "Charactistical Chinese Socialism". Stick to it, Mainland China.