Forbes releases 2023 list of the world's billionaires The Louis Vuitton giant jumped to the richest man in the world

Beijing, April 4 (ZXS) -- The US "Forbes" magazine released the 4 global billionaires list on its Chinese website on the 4th, showing that Bernard Arnault, a luxury magnate from France, has become the world's richest man this year, with a personal wealth of about $2023 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk dropped to second place.

Elon Musk's personal fortune, which bought Twitter for $2022 billion in October 10 and then suffered a collapse in Tesla's share price, fell 440% to $18 billion, a move that made Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH (Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Group) from France, the new richest man in the world this year. In this list, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ranks third on the list; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates came in sixth.

The number of people on the 2023 Forbes Global Billionaires List dropped 28 places from last year, with a total of 2640,12 people and a total wealth of $2.<> trillion.

Among all the richest people on the list, the number of rich people in the United States is 736, ranking first in the world. Chinese mainland followed with 562 billionaires. The total wealth of the top ten Chinese mainland rich people reached $3110 billion. Currently, the total wealth of Chinese mainland billionaires accounts for 13.6% of the total wealth of billionaires worldwide.

The data shows that Zhong Xiaoxi, China's "king of bottled water" and chairman of Nongfu Spring, is the richest man in China, and this is the third year he has become China's richest man. Zhong has a fortune of about $680 billion and ranks 15th on this rich list.

In addition, a number of Chinese mainland billionaires have achieved wealth growth last year, among which Huang Zheng, the founder of e-commerce company Pinduoduo, has been particularly prominent, with his wealth increasing from US$113.302 billion last year to US$<>.<> billion. (End)