Worth $10.5 billion, Zhong Huijuan has become Asia’s wealthiest self-made women, and Asia’s second-richest women after Yang Huiyan, Country Garden Holdings’ co-chairman.
Who is Zhong Huijuan? Read on to find out and be prepared to be blown by this extraordinary journey:
1. An ex-chemistry teacher
Zhong Huijuan was a chemistry teacher in the 1990s, where she taught in middle school. Then in 1995 she quit her job and got into the drug business with Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group, where she holds 68 percent of the shares till date.
2. A Fortune Maker
Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group is the largest psychotropic drug maker in China. Last Friday, the company saw a sudden surge in its share prices, which was about 37 percent. This, alone, added $7.9 billion to Zhong Huijuan’s fortune.
3. An example of a self-made women
Zhong has set an example for all self-made women in Asia and the world, by becoming Asia’s richest self-made woman, who even surpassed her husband, Sun Piaoyang, in terms of wealth. He has a worth of $9.2 billion, earned also from a drug manufacturing company, Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co.
4. A Part of the richest pharma families
With the recent surge of the share prices, the couple has even become a part of the richest pharma families of the world, with a close competition to Mortimer and Raymond Sackler of Purdue Pharma, which manufactures OxyContin, and a Sweedish Bertarelli family, which has earned from drugs and pharmaceuticals as well, a $16.3 billion worth of fortune.
The government also had a huge role to play in the success of this family. The government increased the healthcare spending of the country from 3.5 trillion yuan, in 2014 to 5.9 trillion yuan last year. The company produces medicines for treatments such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
This 58 years old women has set an example for all the women in the world, that investment in the right place and in the right time can build a fortune for you.
