Media references to Mukesh Ambani or Gautam Adani rarely omit a breathless mention of their wealth. Mr Adani, they remind us, is India’s richest man and the world’s third richest billionaire on the Forbes “Real Time billionaires” list. Mr Ambani is India’s second richest man and the eighth richest on the Forbes list.
To find the richest Chinese businessman on the Forbes list you have to scroll down to number 15 (Zhong Shanshan, who owns a bottled water company listed in Hong Kong). The next stop is Zhang Yiming, at number 24, the 39-year-old former CEO of ByteDance, owner of
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