China’s super-rich: Dai Zhikang
By Nick Rosen Author and filmmaker, BBC
Shanghai-based entrepreneur Dai Zhikang has global ambitions.
The 47-year-old property developer, with a personal net worth of $1.2bn, says it is time for China to tread a global stage.
Dai is one of the most sophisticated business operators in China. His spiritual approach makes him unusual amongst China’s property developers, and motivates the way he blends architecture, interior design and psychology.
With upmarket hotels and art galleries amongst its holdings, his Shanghai Zendai company is associated in the public mind with fashionable, mixed-use developments combining retail, office and residential zones.