Zeng Junchen

Zeng Junchen (; 6 September 1888 – 6 July 1964), courtesy name Yun'an , art name Zhengran , was a Chinese businessman and opium kingpin from Sichuan. Starting off as a restaurateur and salt merchant, he then became a kingpin and amassed a fortune in some four years of dealing with opium. He was often referred to as China's "King of Opium". Zeng was also a philanthropist and donated large sums to charities and schools. He died in July 1964, aged 76,Efn|While Zeng was 75 when he died, per his birth date, Chinese sources maintain that he lived till 76, using East Asian age reckoning. His contemporaries regarded him as the "opium king of East Sichuan"; an Italian drug dealer, a Jenkins, lauded Zeng for transforming Sichuan into the "drug capital of the world", whereas an unnamed Chongqing official remarked that Zeng was responsible for the livelihoods of "so many".