Zhong Shanshan

$52.88B

$1.2B (-2.3%)

as of 03/31/25

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, People's Republic of China

12/01/54 (age 70)

self-made

881K

814K

529K

1.058%

0.212%

0.156%

BEIJING WANTAI BIOLOGICAL PHARMACY

Nongfu Spring