Zhong Shanshan

$68.91B

$1.1B (1.6%)

as of 02/16/26

Zhong Shanshan is the founder and chairman of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company that listed its shares in Hong Kong in 2020.

Hangzhou-born Zhong dropped out of elementary school during China's chaotic Cultural Revolution.

He later had jobs as a construction worker, a newspaper reporter and a beverage sales agent before starting his own business.

Zhong also controls Wantai Biological, which makes rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases including Covid-19.

His son Zhong Shu Zi is a non-executive director at Nongfu.

People's Republic of China

Beverages, pharmaceuticals

Hangzhou, Zhejiang

12/01/54 (age 71)

self-made

689K

1.378%

0.276%

0.203%

BEIJING WANTAI BIOLOGICAL PHARMACY

Nongfu Spring