He Was China's "Self-Made" Richest Man. Then Evergrande Collapsed : Rashtra News The 63-year-old Xu Jiayin was once China's richest man.Beijing: From rural poverty to real-estate billions, the fortunes of Xu Jiayin mirrored China's runaway economic growth for much of the past two decades -- but now he is battling to save his Evergrande conglomerate