Zhong Shanshan is the richest person in China and “magnet entrepreneur” and He is the founder and chairperson of the Nongfu Spring beverage company also majority owner of Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise. In the ending of 2020 Zhongh Shanshan had became the Asia’s richest man with net worth of $77.8 Billion by Bloomberg billionaires index. People thought Zhong Shanshan likely founded china’s next tech or manufacturing giant but Reality, Shanshan’s wealth doesn’t come from selling high margin software or high volume consumer goods. No Zhong Shanshan actually made his fortune selling “bottled water” yes A bottled water company founder is wealthier than the founders of “Alibaba, Tencent and Foxconn and he made most of his wealth In a single year.
However the journey was arduous, Zhong Shanshan was born in Hangzhou China in 1954. We always heard of top billionaires out of college and sometimes even High school but Zhong Shanshan actually dropped out of elementary school at the age of ’12. Unlike other billionaires though, he didn’t drop out his own Business, he was actually forced to drop out because out of cultural revolution. (the cultural revolution was a massive communist led uprising within the
China designed to purge the country of capitalists in 1965)
At the age ’13 he found a uncontroversial job in construction throughout his teenage years. after 10 years of hard work Zhong Shanshan went to college “Zhejiang radio and TV university after completed degree he got job as journalist in “Zhejiang daily. after that he worked as a sales agent at the Wahaha beverage company. After many years of struggle he had started a bottled water company “Nongfu Spring beverage company in ‘1996 at the ending of 2003 within China, Nongfu springs became known as the up and coming beverage company that was more natural and healthier than rest.
And this perception allowed them to roll out a handful of new Product over the next decade_ including vitamin water In 2010, sugar free tea in 2011, milk tea in 2012, orange and Apple juice in 2016 and most recently coffee in 2019, He was 9th wealthiest person in china However ‘Lone Wolf‘(Zhong Shanshan) big time started when vaccine making company Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise listed in Shanghai Stock Exchange and game changed and He became the “Lone wolf of China.
