72 Chinese Billionaires Suffered Unnatural Deaths in Last 8 Years – China Business

blogs.forbes.com — I’m no statistics whiz, but it seems to me that a Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days.

China Daily reported Friday that unnatural deaths have taken the lives of 72 mainland billionaires over the past eight years. (Do the math.)

Which means that if you’re one of China’s 115 current billionaires, as listed on the 2011 Forbes Billionaires List, you should be more than a little nervous.

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72 Chinese Billionaires Suffered Unnatural Deaths in Last 8 Years

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