5. Zong Qinghou – $11 billion
Zong Qinghou has made a fortune from something simple: manufacturing tea and water. His Hangzhou Wahaha Group was founded as a beverage manufacturer in a store at a children’s school in the late 1980’s, and the rest, as they say, is history.
6. Wang Wenyin – $10 billion
As Chairman of Amer International Group, Wang Wenyin, comes in at number 6 on our list of China’s richest citizens. Amer acts as a industrial supplier of cable and copper products, and has seen its fortunes rise along with the industrialization of China itself.