Portrait of Zhang Hongchao

Rank #862

Zhang Hongchao

Net worth $5.0B

Bubble tea · China

Born
Jan 01, 1976
Age
50
Source
Bubble tea
Residence
Zhengzhou, Henan
Citizenship
China
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Zhang Hongchao is the chairman of Mixue Group, the world's second biggest seller of freshly-made drinks by annual cups sold after Starbucks.
  • He started a shaved ice shop in 1997 in China with a homemade machine and opened the first Mixue Bingcheng store two years later.
  • Nearly all-franchised, the Mixue Bingcheng chain offers bubble tea, lemonade, coffee and other drinks as well as ice cream at dirt-cheap prices across more than 50,000 stores, including nearly 5,000 overseas.
  • The company went public in a $444 million Hong Kong IPO in March 2025.
  • His younger brother Zhang Hongfu, CEO of the company and also a billionaire, joined Mixue in 2007.

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