As the saying goes, wealth does not exceed three generations, but the history of the Rong family directly overthrew this sentence. Three generations of the Rong family are the richest people in China. Since the Republic of China, the first richest man appeared in the Rong family, and the ability of the next two generations was also excellent, occupying the position of the richest man in China.
The emergence of the richest man in the Rong family is not a sudden outbreak, but a family with a long history and profound family background. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Rong family was still an ordinary businessman. Their later development also benefited from the good relationship between the Rong family and Zhang Peilun, Li Hongzhang's son-in-law, and then monopolized the flour and textile industries at that time by virtue of this relationship, and the family's development was booming.
After the Qing dynasty, the Rong family was divided into two factions because of its large scale and constant war. One group sailed to the United States and Australia for overseas development, while the other group continued to inherit the ancestral business, dealing in flour and imitations. During the Republic of China, Rong Desheng of the Rong family made the family business stronger and bigger, becoming the richest man at that time, and then his son Rong Yiren took over the family business, which once again promoted the strength of the Rong family to a big step.
However, the Rong family is not obsessed with money. They are also very concerned about the development and construction of the country. It is said that Rong Yiren is still a red capitalist, and he does not forget the development and construction of the motherland when making money. Rong Yiren took the lead in setting up CITIC Group to help the country's construction, and later proposed to hand over CITIC Group to the state public-private partnership. 1987 Rong Zhijian returned to China to inherit CITIC Group. CITIC Group continues to grow and has its own business in Hong Kong. It also acquired the largest automobile sales enterprise at that time, occupying a leading position in the automobile sales industry, far surpassing Li Ka-shing and other Hong Kong billionaires.
Judging from the Hurun Report of 1999, it is not easy for the Rong family to be selected as the top one in succession. It can be said that the Rong family relies on the country to get rich and set an example when the country needs it, which should also correct that there is no personal development without the prosperity of the motherland.