Wuxi (
无锡) industrialist family that built China's largest pre-1949 private flour-milling and cotton-spinning empire, founded by brothers
荣宗敬 and
荣德生 in the 1900s.
荣德生's son
荣毅仁 (Rong Yiren) became PRC Vice President (1993-1998) and founded CITIC Group. The family is emblematic of 'national capitalist' (
民族资本家) industrial patriotism.