Chinanews.com client, Beijing, March 2 (Zuo Yukun) The unusual 2020 has changed the lives of many people and also stirred up the global rich list.
On March 2, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List", adding 412 entrepreneurs with a net worth of more than US$1 billion globally, reaching a total of 3,228, a record high.
Tesla's Elon Musk became the world's richest man for the first time, while Zhong Suihui, a Chinese entrepreneur and Nongfu Spring, became the newest Asian richest man and China's richest man.
Data map: Zhong Suisui, founder of Nongfu Spring.
Photo by Liu Guanguan issued by China News Agency
Musk, who reached the top for the first time, became the youngest and richest man in the world
In the list, the world’s richest man, Asia’s richest man, and China’s richest man who have received the most attention have all "newed" one after another.
The 49-year-old Elon Musk became the world's richest man for the first time. His wealth increased by nearly one trillion yuan over last year, which is equivalent to an increase of nearly one billion US dollars every two days to reach 1.28 trillion yuan.
"Elon Musk is the fourth person to be the world's richest man in the past ten years, and he is the youngest person in the world at 49 years old." Hurun Report Chairman and Chief Research Officer Hu Run said , Bill Gates ranked first four times, Jeff Bezos ranked first three times, and Mexico's Carlos Slim Ellu ranked first twice.
Data map: Musk, CEO of Tesla and founder of American Space Exploration Technology Corporation.
Most of Musk's wealth comes from his 21% of Tesla shares, Tesla's current market value is close to 800 billion US dollars.
At the same time, he also owns 52% of the space exploration technology company SpaceX. After the company became the first private company to send humans into space, its market value increased by $13 billion. Only three superpowers had achieved this feat before.
Last year's richest man Jeff Bezos ranked second with 1.22 trillion yuan in wealth.
His wealth has increased by more than 200 billion yuan, an increase of 35% over last year.
The 71-year-old Bernard Arnott of the “king of luxury goods” LVMH ranked third with a fortune of 738 billion yuan, dropping one place.
At the beginning of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Arnott's wealth decreased by $25 billion, but it has rebounded since then and is now 7% more than last year.
Image source: "2021 Hurun Global Rich List"
The 65-year-old Bill Gates ranked fourth with a wealth of 712 billion yuan, an increase of 4% over last year.
In March last year, Gates resigned from the Microsoft board of directors to focus on his philanthropy.
At the age of 23, he became an entrepreneur with a net worth of more than one billion US dollars. The 36-year-old Mark Zuckerberg's wealth exceeded the 100 billion US dollar mark for the first time, an increase of 20% over last year and firmly ranked in the top five.
90-year-old Warren Buffett has maintained the top ten position with a fortune of 589 billion yuan.
His wealth has decreased by more than 100 billion, making him the entrepreneur whose wealth has shrunk the most on the list.
Refreshing
China's rich list, Zhong Sui Sui is the richest man in Asia
The list shows that the top three on the list of China's richest people in 2021 are Zhong Sui Sui, Ma Huateng and Huang Zheng. Last year these three seats belonged to Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and Xu Jiayin respectively.
"King of Bottled Water", 67-year-old Zhong Sui Sui, with a fortune of RMB 550 billion, became the first Chinese entrepreneur to enter the top ten of the global rich list, ranking seventh, thanks to his control of Nongfu Spring in September last year. Listed in Hong Kong.
“It’s hard to imagine that the first Chinese entrepreneurs to enter the world’s top ten were not Ma Huateng and Ma Yun, but the 67-year-old Zhong Sui Sui.” Hu Run said that Zhong Sui Sui, who is headquartered in Hangzhou, also replaced India’s Mu. Keshi Ambani became the richest man in Asia.
Zhong Suansui's other listed company, vaccine manufacturer Wantai Bio, currently has a market value of more than US$10 billion, which makes him one of the few entrepreneurs in the world who has founded more than one company worth more than US$10 billion.
Image source: "2021 Hurun Global Rich List"
According to the list, 50-year-old Ma Huateng ranked second in China with a wealth of 480 billion yuan and 14th in the world, up 8 places from last year; 41-year-old Huang Zheng ranked third in China with a wealth of 450 billion yuan and 19th in the world. It rose 41 places last year.
Ma Yun, 57, ranked fourth in China with a wealth of 360 billion yuan and 25th in the world, down 4 places from last year; Zhang Yiming, 38, with a wealth of 350 billion yuan, ranked fifth in China and 26th in the world, up 89 places from last year.
Hurun Research Institute pointed out that this is also the first time since records have been made that no real estate entrepreneur has entered the top ten of China's richest list. Last year, Li Ka-shing and Xu Jiayin, who ranked in the top five, both fell out of the top ten.
China has more wealthy people than the rest of the world combined
"The rate of wealth creation is shocking." According to the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List", there are 412 new entrepreneurs with a net worth of over US$1 billion globally, reaching a total of 3,228, a record high.
At the same time, the total wealth of global entrepreneurs with a net worth of more than one billion U.S. dollars increased by more than 20 trillion yuan from last year, reaching 95 trillion yuan, which is another record.
"Despite the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the increase in wealth in the past year is the largest in the past decade. In the past year, the boom in the stock market and a large number of newly listed companies have created 8 new net worth over 1 billion every week. U.S. dollar entrepreneurs.” Hurun predicts that at this rate, in the next five years, more than 50 people will have a wealth of over 100 billion U.S. dollars.
Image source: "2021 Hurun Global Rich List"
According to the report, from the perspective of residence, in the past year, the number of richest people in China has greatly widened the gap with the United States. The number of entrepreneurs living in China with a net worth of more than one billion U.S. dollars has increased by 259 to 1,058. , Becoming the first country in the world to have 1,000 entrepreneurs with a net worth of more than one billion US dollars.
The United States ranked second, with 696 entrepreneurs on the list, an increase of 70 from last year.
As a result, China and the United States together account for 54% of the world’s richest people.
In addition, India’s list of richest people increased by 40, consolidating the third place, followed by Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, all of which have more than 100 entrepreneurs with a net worth of more than one billion U.S. dollars.
"In the past year, China has added more new faces than the rest of the world combined, and far surpassed the United States." Hu Run said that in the past five years, China has added more new faces to the list. 490, compared with 160 in the United States.
What industries are the rich and powerful people who have created amazing wealth in?
From the perspective of total wealth, the wealth created by the retail industry accounted for 10.3% of the total wealth, followed by consumer goods at 9.6%, media and entertainment at 8.2%, and software services at 7.9%; from the perspective of the number of people, the health and real estate industries have the largest number of people on the list. Each accounted for 8.7%, consumer goods industry accounted for 8.6%, investment accounted for 8.2%, and retail accounted for 8%.
Among them, the surge in the luxury goods industry is particularly noticeable: Hermès’ Bertrand Piech’s wealth increased by 45% to 518 billion yuan. This is the first time that two entrepreneurs in the luxury goods industry have entered the top ten, the other one. It is Bernard Arnott of LVMH, with a wealth of 738 billion yuan.
Image source: "2021 Hurun Global Rich List"
From the perspective of the industry distribution of China's richest people, Chinese entrepreneurs engaged in emerging industries accounted for 36%, an increase of 4 percentage points from last year; traditional industries accounted for 64%.
Among the entrepreneurs on the list in emerging industries, advanced manufacturing has the largest number of 167, an increase of 60 from the previous year, accounting for 43% of the total number of entrepreneurs on the list in emerging industries.
Zeng Yuqun of Ningde era surpassed Xiaomi's Lei Jun to become the richest man in advanced manufacturing, and Chen Zhiping of Simer ranked third in the industry.
Among the emerging industries, the second largest number of people on the list is still the health industry, with 86, an increase of 33 from the previous year, accounting for 22% of the total number of entrepreneurs on the list in emerging industries.
Ranked first in the industry is Chen Bang of Aier Ophthalmology, followed by the Jiang Rensheng family of Zhifei Biology and Li Xiting of Mindray.
Among the emerging industries, the third largest industry is media and entertainment, with 43, an increase of 7 from last year, accounting for 11% of the total number of entrepreneurs in the emerging industries.
Ranked first in the industry is Tencent’s Ma Huateng, followed by Bytedance’s Zhang Yiming and NetEase’s Ding Lei.
"With the soaring popularity of Douyin in China and around the world, Zhang Yiming, 38, from Bytedance, entered the top five in China for the first time, the top 30 in the world, and the world's top 50 except Mark Zuckerberg. Young entrepreneurs." Hu Run believes that Zhang Yiming and Pinduoduo Huang Zheng are the strongest competitors for China's new richest man.
Over the past year, the rich list has changed drastically.
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