Zong Qinghou, board chairman of Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co Ltd, sits in his office, packed with a wide assortment of bottoles of beverage, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on Nov 13, 2013.

He is one of the most famous businessmen to have come out of China's reform and opening-up. With his business sense and management skills, Zong built a Chinese beverage empire with over $7.9 billion annual sales revenue from scratch.

At the age of 68, he still spends more than 200 days a year doing market research.[Photo/Xinhua]