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Tension between Japan and China has increased after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s statement on Taiwan. Both the countries are making statements against each other. Meanwhile, various kinds of comparisons have started regarding the two. Here we will also compare the richest people of both the countries.
zhong shanshan
Zhong Shanshan is the richest person in China. He is at number 23 in the list of the world’s top rich. According to Forbes, Shanshan’s net worth is Rs 6.73 lakh crore. Zhong Shanshan is the founder and chairman of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company.
This company had listed its shares in Hong Kong in the year 2020. Born in Hangzhou, Zhong dropped out of primary school during China’s chaotic Cultural Revolution. Later, he worked as a construction worker, a newspaper reporter, and a beverage sales agent, before starting his own business.
Asia’s richest man
Zhong is also the owner of Wantai Biological Company. His son, Zhong Shuji, is a non-executive director at Nongfu. Being the richest person in China, Shanshan can also be called China’s Mukesh Ambani, who is the richest person in India.
Let us tell you that Shanshan also became the richest person in Asia in March 2021.
Who is the richest person in Japan?
Tadashi Yanai is the richest man in Japan. His net worth is Rs 4.35 lakh crore. He is the 33rd richest person. Tadashi Yanai is the owner of Tokyo-listed retail clothing empire Fast Retailing, which is the parent company of the Uniqlo chain.
Other brands in fast retailing include Theory, Helmut Lang, J Brand and GU. The company reported a net profit of $2.5 billion on revenue of $21 billion for the financial year ending August 2024. Flagship brand Uniqlo has about 2,500 stores in 25 countries, according to Forbes.
Yanai’s target is for his company to become the world’s largest retailer, which means that his company will have to overtake H&M and Inditex (Zara’s parent company).
