Zhong dethroned India’s Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s wealthiest person last week and is close to entering the rarefied realm of individuals worth more than US$100bil. Buffett (pic) is outside that group with an US$86.2bil fortune, but the Berkshire Hathaway Inc founder has given away more than US$37bil of stock since 2006.
BEIJING: Zhong Shanshan is setting new wealth records.
The chairman of Nongfu Spring Co, a bottled-water company that’s ubiquitous in China, is now richer than Warren Buffett as his fortune surged US$13.5bil since the start of the year to US$91.7bil on Tuesday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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