Hu Baifan
2017 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 4/11/17
$1.1 B
- Hu Baifan chairs Shenzhen-listed Zhejiang NHU, one of the world’s largest producers of vitamins A and E.
- After graduation from college in 1982, Hu spent six years teaching chemistry at a remote vocational school.
- With money borrowed from his fellow teachers, Hu started a small workshop in 1988 to make industrial ethanol from leftover materials from other factories.
Source:forbes