Zong Qinghou, Chairman of Wahaha Group, at his office in Hangzhou city, east China's Zhejiang province 6 June 2007. With a reported net worth of $12 billion, the 65-year-old self-made billionaire is mainland China's richest person. He started a beverage business in 1986 targeting children and their parents with its name "Wahaha" which sounds like a child's laugh. Now the company is China's largest beverage maker, selling bottled water and other drinks, making an estimated $6.3 billion in revenues in 2009. He ranks #103 on Forbes' list of the world's richest people. (Imaginechina/AP Photo)