... Jianlin (王健林), with US$42.6 billion. However, Li topped the Hurun Report's global list of Chinese philanthropists, released Tuesday, with 15 billion yuan (US$2.35 billion) in lifetime donations, ahea ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-09
... Jianlin {王健林} -- now the richest man on the mainland, according to Forbes -- could have never envisioned that his business would have anything to do with motion pictures and cinema chains. Back then ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-24
Soon after Wang Jianlin {王健林} began testing the e-commerce waters, his Wanda Group, China’s biggest private property owner, launched an online-to-offline (O2O) web portal and a mobile app called Wanhu ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-17
Remember the 100 million yuan bet Alibaba founder Jack Ma {馬雲} made against Wanda boss Wang Jianlin {王健林} that e-commerce would soon account for half of China's retail sales? The stakes have gone up t ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-16
... Jianlin {王健林} and Alibaba founder Jack Ma {馬雲} had a tit-for-tat exchange over the country's outlook, at the end of which Wang bet 100 million yuan that e-commerce would not have half of the retail m ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-12
... Jianlin {王健林}, also China’s richest man this year according to Forbes, dismissed concerns over the highest price paid by a Chinese company for a painting in an overseas auction, noting that his compa ...More
EJ Insight2013-12-02
... Jianlin {王健林}, also mainland China’s richest man according to Bloomberg, simply shrugs off these concerns when confronted by the media. As he puts it, “cash flow is more crucial than gearing ratio” f ...More
EJ Insight2013-10-15