Farming billions in China

Contradictions in China, and the Rise of a Billionaire Family

DAVID BARBOZA

GUJIA VILLAGE, China — In the 1950s, the Liu family of southwest China’s Sichuan Province was so short of food, they sent one of their youngest sons to be raised by another family.

Shawn Liu and his father, Liu Yongxing, whom Forbes has listed as China’s richest man.

Today, however, they are one of China’s richest families.

Rising from public scorn during the Cultural Revolution, the four Liu brothers managed to turn a small quail-breeding farm into China’s largest private company, later splitting it into four.


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