{"id":2985,"date":"2025-08-22T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:30:37","slug":"chinas-youngest-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/business\/leaders\/chinas-youngest-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0China\u2019s Youngest Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2019, Pop Mart, which had already successfully launched blockbuster toys such as the Sonny Angel figurines, acquired exclusive rights to Labubu from a Hong Kong artist. The designer created the character drawing inspiration from Scandinavian troll myths.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250715_113204_071165____1_____800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250715_113204_071165____1_____800x800.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250715_113204_071165____1_____800x800-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250715_113204_071165____1_____800x800-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bricsmagazine.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/20250715_113204_071165____1_____800x800-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9 popmart.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Labubu\u2019s triumphant global conquest, alongside Pop Mart\u2019s soaring stock prices and Wang\u2019s skyrocketing personal wealth, peaked in early 2025. Millions of views and reposts turned Labubu into a cultural phenomenon and its manufacturer into one of the toy industry\u2019s most valued players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, Wang\u2019s business success isn\u2019t just luck. It stems from his deep understanding of consumer wishes. \u201cThe whole world is rushing you to grow up but Pop Mart wants you to slow down a bit,\u201d the billionaire says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Ning, the 38-year-old founder of the Pop Mart toy store, has amassed a fortune of nearly USD 20 billion (as of early August, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index), thanks in part to the global obsession with a \u201cnative\u201d of China, the Labubu doll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[963],"country":[71],"authors":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leaders","tag-963","country-china"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u00a0China\u2019s Youngest Billionaire - 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