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Fang Jietang (1783-1846), named Hengxing, was a giant businessman in Shanghai in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
Fang Jietang (1783-1846), named Hengxing, was a giant businessman in Shanghai in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. A native of Luotuo Gaoshufang Village, Zhenhai County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Zhenhai District). During the Jiaqing period, Guisi started his business in his hometown of Zhenhai, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang. He initially opened a grocery store selling grains and groceries. In the first year of Daoguang (1821), he began to get involved in the sugar industry and transportation business, transporting and selling sugar between Shanghai and Ningbo.
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