In a year of slowed economic growth and apprehension that things could get worse, few are more visibly in this spot than Zhang Jindong and his retail-driven Suning empire.

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Chinese billionaires with A-share companies include Liang Wengen of Sany Heavy Industry, a key rival of Caterpillar in China, and Zhang Jindong, the chairman of Suning Commercial, a self-styled Amazon and Wal-Mart of China.

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