Chu Shijian, China’s Tobacco King, who went on to produce the country’s favourite oranges, has died, aged 91.
‘An extraordinary man’: China’s tobacco and orange king, entrepreneur Chu Shijian, dies aged 91
- He made his name by turning Yuxi Tobacco Company – later renamed the Hongta Tobacco Group – into a thriving national tobacco giant in the 1980s and 1990s
- He was also head of an orange-growing empire in a remote, mountainous area of Yunnan province, southwest China, called Chu Oranges
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China economy
Chu Shijian, China’s Tobacco King, who went on to produce the country’s favourite oranges, has died, aged 91.