The History of China's First Billionaires

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In 1981 this was China, a country struggling to feed its people after decades of attempted and failed economic experiments…


Today as of 2024 China is home to more billionaires than any other country on the planet… at least according to some sources.


Others still put America ahead but that’s mostly down to the fact that Chinese billionaires don’t only want to keep a low profile… they NEED to keep a low profile.


Just a few short decades ago the country was rounding up the bourgeois, and other “class traitors” and some habits die hard.


If the proliferation of billionaires in a “supposedly” communist country wasn’t already strange enough, the SPEED by which these men and women have skyrocketed from extreme poverty to the upper echelons of global wealth doesn’t really make sense… until you hear their stories.


Do you want to see the largest collection of billionaires in a single photo ever? Here it is… the 19th people's party congress held in 2017, where approximately 2,280 delegates sat down to set party policy for the next 5 years.


Approximately 100 of them were billionaires… With so many billionaires so close to the government it raises the question…


Did these people create the Chinese Economic Miracle, or were they just the ones that could seize their own means of production at the right time?

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