Turnover at the top: 17 people have held title of China’s richest person in past 27 years

Seventeen Chinese entrepreneurs have held the title of the country’s richest billionaire in the past 27 years, over four times as many as in the United States, which wealth research firm Hurun Group attributed to the “dynamism” of the Chinese market. China’s richest people – including ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, Nongfu Spring founder Zhong Shanshan, and Country Garden chairwoman Yang Huiyan – came from sectors including technology, consumption and property, Hurun’s rankings of Chinese...