Pork Crisis Makes Pig Farmer World’s Fastest-Rising Billionaire

China’s No. 2 producer gets richer in ‘19 as pork prices surge
Qin Yinglin’s fortune has more than quadrupled to $8.6 billion

Pigs in a holding pen at a wholesale market in Nanning, China. — Pigs in a holding pen at a wholesale market in Nanning, China.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

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By Blake Schmidt and Emma Vickers

December 13, 2019 at 5:00 PM EST

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China’s pork crisis, worrying consumers as it pushed inflation to a multi-year high last month, has still produced some huge winners.

Chief among them is Qin Yinglin.

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