Seventeen Chinese entrepreneurs have held the title of the country’s richest billionaire in the past 27 years, over four times as many as in the United States, which wealth research firm Hurun Group attributed to the “dynamism” of the Chinese market.China’s richest people – including ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming, Nongfu Spring founder Zhong Shanshan, and Country Garden chairwoman Yang Huiyan – came from sectors including technology, consumption and property, Hurun’s rankings of Chinese billionaires from 1999 to 2026 showed.In 2001, Liu Yonghao and his brother Liu Yongxing topped the list of the year’s richest 100 people as the owners of…