The World's Richest Man, Starting With Chopping Bamboo

Synopsis: Lin Fan is reborn in 1991, when Huaguo is rapidly developing its economy and cities everywhere are building infrastructure and skyscrapers.

To raise the capital to buy new stock subscription certificates, Lin Fan starts going from construction site to construction site selling his family's bamboo. After earning his first fortune,

Lin Fan seizes the opportunity presented by Huaguo and Hungary waiving visa requirements for each other's citizens. He organizes the first large-scale labor export project, which is really a disguised mass migration, and earns his second fortune.

In 1992, he goes to Shencheng to buy stock subscription certificates. By a twist of fate, he ends up owning 20% of Phoenix Chemical, one of the Old Eight Stocks, and quickly becomes famous, with assets worth over a hundred million.

While making waves in the financial markets, Lin Fan also turns his attention to the state-owned factories being transferred to private ownership. With a clever feint, he successfully buys more than a thousand mu of land.

Many years later, a reporter asks: Mr. Lin, you've been the world's richest person for 20 years straight. Are you confident you'll retain the title next year?

Lin Fan replies casually: Respecting the laws of how things develop is how you gain foresight. Foresight is the secret to seizing wealth. There's no way anyone will take the title of world's richest person away from me!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.