"I live well in China, and my business is also here. I earn a living selling water and I have no power-for-money deals or any ill-gotten wealth. Everything about me is transparent. That's why I don't feel pressure of being rich…I don't speak foreign languages and I'm not used to foreign food, so I won't emigrate."

Zong Qinghou, beverage industry mogul and National People's Congress deputy,

said in response to media reports claiming he had received a US green card in an interview with economics website ce.cn.