Published: August 26th, 2024,
Last updated: September 12th, 2024

China has a new richest man: Colin Huang, the founder of Pinduoduo and Temu, has overtaken the previous leader Zhong Shanshan, the founder of Nongfu Spring, with an estimated fortune of 48.6 billion US dollars. This rise is all the more remarkable, considering that Huang only founded Pinduoduo in 2015 and is now, less than a decade later, at the top of the Chinese business elite.