Question: who was the most important person in china?
Answer: Qin Shi Huang (221-210 B.C.) China was unified in 221 B.C. when the Qin people came out of the west to prevail militarily over a number of rival states. ... 
Kublai Khan (1279-1294) ... 
Sun Yat-sen (1912) ... 
Mao Zedong (1949-1976) ... 
Deng Xiaoping (1978-1989)