Wahaha Chairman Zong Qinghou is pictured through a window in Beijing, China, Wednesday, March 8, 2006.
After talking about poor Chinese, it seemed only natural to report about the other extreme of the social scope: the billionaires. In the beginning of 2006, we tracked down Chinese billionaires, who already compete with the most wealthy fortunes of the West. One difference, though: they were poor when they were young. And they remember. The photos got published in International Herald Tribune, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg Markets Magazine.