There are now more than one million dollar millionaires in China - and many millions more behind them who hope to emulate their success.

If he can't talk about his clients, Casey can talk about trends - all the electronics companies are focusing on the Chinese domestic market, which has one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world and already boasts 800,000 dollar millionaires.

'Cherry Pie', the band claim, is all their own, and it will make them dollar millionaires.

Nearly 50 years later, and approaching his 70th year, Kent is now lining up the new big game of the tourism industry: the one million Chinese dollar millionaires created by the tsunami of easy credit that followed the 2007 financial crisis.

The combined wealth of the "10 million dollar millionaires" grew to nearly $41 trillion in 2008.

A quarterly report prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit on behalf of Barclays Wealth in 2007 estimated that there were 48,000 dollar millionaires in Malaysia (over twice that of China).

The city is home to an estimated 20,000 dollar millionaires and, according to some estimates, has more Mercedes cars than any other capital in the world.

There were over 619,000 net worth Sterling millionaires in Britain in 2011, and 383,000 dollar millionaires (financial assets only) in 2004.

The number of dollar millionaires in mainland China is shooting up, too, nearly 10 per cent higher in a year, to 960,000.

By contrast, the number of British dollar millionaires rose by just 1.4pc to 454,300.