Qin Yingling, a chinese agriculture tycoon, billionaire, Communist Party member, and the world's richest farmer. He is the chair and president of the pig farming company Muyuan Foodstuff and is one of the richest people in China. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth was estimated at US$ 31.5 billion as of May 2021. Forbes wrote that he earned his wealth as "the country's largest pig breeder in the world's biggest pork market" Qin was born in 1965 in Hexi Village, Mashankou Town, Neixiang County, Nanyang, Henan,China. He grew up in poverty. In 1982, when Qin was in high school, his father saved up money and bought 20 pigs, but all but one died. This motivated Qin to study pig farming at university, so that he could help people in his village earn money raising pigs. In 1985 he was accepted to Henan Agricultural University. In 1989, at age 24, Qin Yinglin graduated with a degree in animal husbandry and began working at Nanyang Food Company. While...