But as China's fortune's rise, more of that wealth is going into fewer hands.
Australia's good fortune relies on China avoiding a stumble.
An Indian, Dorabjee Nowrajee, who made his fortune selling opium into China, set up the Kowloon Ferry Company in 1888.
"It turns out that the majority of businesspeople in China believe in the god of fortune, " sighs Fu, the Marxist leader.
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This is a good first step from China, but as with a fortune cookie, it is the detail inside, vague or otherwise that is more interesting than the bland cookie itself.
China has 37 companies on the Fortune 500 list.
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Their analyses of which direction China is going can command a small fortune and even change fortunes.
Zhu Yuguo, ranks at 102 on the Forbes China Rich List, with a personal fortune of 5.71 billion Yuan and has invested heavily in the wind power industry.
If and when, for example, Sam Su of Yum Brands becomes the first Chinese CEO of a Fortune 500 company born in China then they will accept a free flow of non-Chinese executive talent throughout their organizations.
Ladies seeking to preserve the sheen of youth spent a fortune on "paints" from China and lip salves from India.
He made a fortune helping companies send American jobs to China, India and Mexico, maximizing profits for himself and his investors while laying off American workers, gutting companies and devastating communities here at home.
Doing business in China relies on more than an optimistic message in a fortune cookie.
The city was also the home of Yang Bin, a horticulturist whose fortune (earned elsewhere) briefly made him China's richest man before he was arrested for corruption.
In fact, only about 25% of Fortune 200 companies will rely solely on organic growth in China.
Unfortunately China's loose monetary policy is leaving rather too many hostages to fortune.
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Its stockmarket capitalisation is four times bigger than China's and it has more than twice as many firms in the Fortune global 500, which lists the world's biggest companies by revenue.
Ian Bremmer and Nouriel Roubini, respectively president of the Eurasia Group and a professor at New York University, pointed out in The Wall Street Journal last week that 39 of the 42 Chinese companies listed among the Fortune 500 are state-owned, and three-quarters of China's 100 largest publicly traded companies are state-controlled.
Those numbers were even more disparate 8 years ago, when the Fortune data started: in 2005 the U.S. had 176, China only 16, India a mere 5 of the top 500 multinationals.
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Seven years ago, Xiang, then aged 13, was taken into one of China's many Sports Technical Schools where children are offered the opportunity to bring fame and fortune to the mother country by winning on the international stage.
Gathering in fields or villages during community festivals, members of the Korean ethnic group in Jilin and other provinces in north-eastern China offer a traditional sacrifice to the God of the Land to pay homage to nature and pray for good fortune and a plentiful harvest.
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