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China heeft meeste miljardairs ter wereld



China is het land met de meeste miljardairs. Best bijzonder voor een land
dat nog steeds communistisch is. Garrie van Pinxteren is hier, sinoloog van
het instituut Clingendael, oud-correspondent in China, en schrijfster van
boeken over China.













http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-03/08/content_28483306.htm



*Chinese entrepreneurs will become global faces, says British documentary
maker*

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China's top entrepreneurs, who have been the key driving force behind the
country's explosive economic growth, will become the global faces for China
in the next decade, said British award-winning documentary maker Nick Rosen.

Rosen, who is well known for producing documentaries about Chinese
entrepreneurs and billionaires, said big tycoons always match their words
with their actions.

Nick Rosen, who has made aseries of short films about Chinese Billionaires
with Wang Jianling, China's current richest man, being his latest
production, saystop entrepreneurs' deeds always agree with their words.

Citing Wang Jianling, China's current richest man, as an example, Rosen
said, "He is a man who does exactly what he says. He said he was going to
seal a huge deal in the UK. Immediately after Brexit, the deal was
announced and his company purchased Odeon for 921 million pounds. He said
he was going to be number one in five-star hotels and he became number one.
Wang has a vision and stays true to that vision; I think that is the key to
his success.

Rosen has made a series of short films about Chinese billionaires with one
on Wang being his latest production.

He added that there is one thing in common among these Chinese
entrepreneurs – they all have risen from nothing and reached the top in one
generation. Rosen said their success has demonstrated the "Chinese dream",
as their business exploded exactly the same way as the country's economic
growth shot up.

Rosen is particularly amazed with the humbleness displayed by the China
superrich, such as China's previous richest man Zong Qinghou, the founder
of Wahaha Group, a beverage and clothing firm based in Hangzhou.

Zong's monk-like devotion to duty is legendary, said Rosen, adding "he
emphasizes that he eschews luxuries and eats the same food as his workers
at the workers' canteen. As we sat facing each other across the desk in his
modest office, he told me that the money he had made was for society."

As a multi-billionaire, Zong still looks at all those expenses in the same
way he did 30 years ago when he started his company.

Rosen, born in the UK, worked as a freelance journalist writing for The
Times and The Guardian in the early 1990s. As he was always interested in
predicting future trends, he made a career out of anticipating developments.

In 1994 he made a film about internet, long before it became popular
worldwide. He published his book How To Live Off-Grid in 2007, as part of
an ecological campaign to change the rules on planning permission.

Also, as it dawned on him in 2011 that the Chinese entrepreneurs were
suddenly about to spring into international importance and become powerful
global phenomenon, he decided to go to China to discover them as well as
their stories.

Surprisingly Rosen did not find approaching these one in billion Chinese
superrich daunting. "If you got a plan and you stick to that plan you will
get there."As a result, he has been given close access to such senior
figures, which he thinks is the best access Western outsiders have received
to China's elite since 1911.

So far, Rosen has made documentaries with over 10 Chinese billionaires.

He added that leading Chinese businessmen can play a crucial role in
government's policy making as Chinese government is very proud of its
successful entrepreneurs. "They know they have really achieved something
special and they've earned the right to be listened to," he adds.

Rosen said when Zhou Xiaoguang, the owner of the world's largest maker of
costume jewelry, NeoGlory Holdings Group, based in Southeast China Yiwu, a
place where tradesmen all over the world come to trade small goods, brought
her opinion to Premier Li Keqiang to treat Yiwu as a trade zone, Premier Li
took her opinion on board and made it happen.

"The success she achieved is a good understanding of the way business work
and the conditions that are required for business to be successful. So she
earned the right to be heard at that very high level and made sure that the
condition was right in Yiwu and the local leaders were behind her."