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Luo Liguo

Chinese billionaire businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ111632421
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Luo Liguo (罗立国, born March 1956) is a Chinese billionaire and businessman, a chair of the Hoshine Silicon Industry specializing in electronics, photovoltaic, and chemical products.

When he was a child, Liguo learned how to make straw hats. After graduating from the university, he borrowed 20,000 yuan and founded the Cixi Shenyi Handicraft Factory specializing in the straw hat business. In the 1990s, he established Cixi Tianyi Investment, Hangzhou Jimei Real Estate, Xinxin Real Estate and other companies. In the late 1990s, he started investing in the production of silicon materials in Xinjiang, Shihezi, Heihe and other places.

Luo Liguo made the 2022 Forbes Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $17 billion and occupied the 100th position.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-01-01. For this dossier, Liguo, Chinese and billionaire is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Luo Liguo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.