VIP Class Notes (Vicki)

Vocabulary

latest – the newest / the most recent

billionaire – someone who has billions

billion – shi yi (000,000,000)

million – bai wan (000,000)

thousand – qian (000)

index – list

worth – jia zhi

net worth – people

market worth – product

previous – the last one

private – si ren de

found (v.) – cheng li – create

giant (adj.) – very very big

giant (n.) – a huge corporation

branch (n.) – arm of a tree
branch office

branch (v.) – fen zhi
branch out – to go to a different direction

vaccine – shots that you get to prevent sickness (yi miao)

manufacturer – the person / the company that makes the product (zhi zao shang)

biological (adj.) – sheng wu de

pharmacy – yao dian – the place you get drugs

research & develop – yan fa (R&D)

A businessman who sells bottled water is now the richest man in China. The business magazine Bloomberg named Mr Zhong Shanshan as China’s richest man in its latest Billionaires Index. The magazine said Mr Zhong is worth over $58 billion. This makes him $2 billion richer than the previous number one, Jack Ma. Mr Ma founded the retail Internet giant Alibaba. Mr Zhong made his wealth from his Nongfu Spring bottled water company. He then branched out into making vaccines. He is the chairman of a vaccine manufacturer called the Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy. Mr Zhong is now 17th on the global rich list. It seems that he will move up that list in the future.

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