Li is the chairman of Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group, a Chinese conglomerate with petrochemical, real estate and finance divisions. The Hangzhou-based business's main subsidiary, Rongsheng Petrochemical Company, began trading on the Shenzhen exchange in 2010 and had revenue of 107 billion yuan ($15.6 billion) in 2020.
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The majority of Li's net worth is derived from a 63% stake in Zhejiang Rongsheng Holding Group, a closely-held petrochemical company that reported revenue of 114 billion yuan ($17.6 billion) in 2020, according to its annual report to the Shanghai Clearing House.
The Hangzhou-based business owns 66% of publicly traded Rongsheng Petro Chemical. The valuation is based on the price-to-earnings multiple of Rongsheng Petrochemical and it is updated on May 18, 2021 and this led to a $700 million decrease in the calculation.
Li also owns 6.8% of Rongsheng Petrochemical directly, according to the company's semi-annual report for 2021. This direct stake is included separately in the valuation.
Jin Weiying, a spokeswoman for the company, didn't respond to Bloomberg's request for comment on the billionaire's net worth.
Li was born in Hangzhou, a city in eastern China in 1956.
In 1989, he was running a timber business when he noticed the price for fabrics soaring in China, and he decided to set up a cloth factory. With eight sewing machines, about 20 employees and 200,000 yuan from selling an early venture in the timber business, he shifted to the textiles, according to a report on the company's website.
The factory had 100 sewing machines by 1995, when competition in the industry sent him to Japan, Australia and New Zealand for ideas on how to manage growth at the company. He added polyester fiber products and petroleum chemicals, establishing the predecessor of his Rongsheng Holding Group.
The group acquired a 29 percent stake of Ningbo United, a Chinese investment company traded in Shanghai, in 2010 for 771 million yuan ($116 million). Its subsidiary Rongsheng Petro Chemical started publicly trading in Shenzhen the same year. The company was added to the MSCI Equity Index in 2017.