2022 Hurun global rich list released, China has 1133 people on the list, an increase of 75 over last year, becoming the country with the largest number of entrepreneurs with “wealth” of US $1 billion in the world; Among them, there are 302 people on the list in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao
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On March 17, Hurun Research Institute released the 2022 global rich list. Last year, 153 US $1 billion entrepreneurs were added in the world, reaching 3381 in total. China and the United States accounted for 55% of the world’s total, and India ranked third, with 215, an increase of 38.
Affected by the epidemic, the wealth of many entrepreneurs has shrunk significantly. According to the list, 337 people lost the list last year. However, there are also many new entrants, with 490 new faces. China leads with 235, followed by the United States and India, with 63 and 51 respectively.
In China, although the wealth of nongnongshanquan’s 68 year old Zhong Fuying fell by nearly 100 billion yuan, he still won the title of China’s richest man with 455 billion yuan; Zhang Yiming, 39, ranked second with a wealth of 340 billion yuan Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.Limited(300750) 54 year old Zeng Yuqun ranked third, and his wealth increased by more than 100 billion yuan to 335 billion yuan.
Hurun, chairman and chief research officer of Hurun Baifu, said that although the epidemic has not ended and the situation in some international regions is unstable, more than 300 people have failed to make the list this time, with the development of the global digital economy, scientific and technological innovation and inflation, nearly 500 people have been added to the list, and the total number of US $1 billion entrepreneurs in the world has reached a record high. “Entrepreneurs with rapid wealth growth this year mainly come from the new energy industry, biotechnology industry, luxury industry, semiconductor industry, software and service industry and shipping industry with favorable ‘double carbon’ policy.”
The deadline for the calculation of entrepreneur wealth on the list is January 14, 2022. This is the 11th consecutive year that Hurun Research Institute released the “global rich list”.
Dawan District three cities entered the top 20 list of chuangfuli
The number of Chinese entrepreneurs on the list ranked first in the world, surpassing the sum of the next three countries.
Five cities in China have entered the top ten cities with the largest number of US $1 billion entrepreneurs in the world, and 10 cities have entered the top 30 in the world, of which the top three are Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
“A good entrepreneurial ecology especially needs model level enterprises and entrepreneurs, and the number of model level enterprise families in Shenzhen has surpassed New York for the first time this year after surpassing Hong Kong last year. Now, the top three cities with the largest number of model level entrepreneurs in the world are all in China, which is of great importance to an entrepreneurial ecology.” Hurun analyzed.
In the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou have entered the list of the top 20 cities in the world in terms of the number of billionaires. Specifically, Shenzhen ranks third with 113 people, second only to Beijing and Shanghai; Hong Kong ranked sixth with 85 people; Guangzhou tied for 12th place with Paris with 50 people, 11 less than last year.
619 of China’s people on the list have increased their wealth over last year, of which 235 are new faces, and 556 have decreased their wealth.
Major changes include: the biggest increase is Luo Liguo, 66, a silicone company in Ningbo, and his family. His wealth increased by 272% to 100 billion yuan, successfully ranking among the top 50 in China. With the rapid development of the new energy industry, Gao Jifan, aged Trina Solar Co.Ltd(688599) 57, and his family’s wealth rose 227% to 53.5 billion yuan, ranking among the top 100 in China. Zhang Congyuan, 74, of sports shoe manufacturer Huali industry, and his family became the richest entrepreneurs on the list with 90 billion yuan, followed by Cao Renxian, aged 3 Mls Co.Ltd(002745) 4, with 58 billion yuan.
Zhao CHANGPENG, 45, who lives in Singapore, entered the top 100 in the world with 145 billion yuan. Referring to the evaluation of its value by Listed Companies in the same industry, coin security has become one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.
Xiang Guangda, 64, of Qingshan holdings, the world’s “nickel king”, ranks among the top 1000 in the world with 26.5 billion yuan.
Large IPOs: in the past year, the number of IPOs of Chinese enterprises reached 669, and the initial capital raised exceeded 900 billion yuan, accounting for about one-third of the total global IPO capital raised. These include fast hand (market value of about 200000000000 yuan), China’s Three Gorges new energy (market value of 200 billion yuan), Jingdong logistics (market value of 100 billion yuan), Kwai (market value of 100 billion yuan).
medical and health industry is the most powerful
In terms of the number of people, the medical and health industry ranked second over real estate for the first time, while retail ranked fourth over consumer goods. Financial services is still the industry that has created the most $1 billion entrepreneurs, accounting for 9.3% of the list.
In terms of total wealth, retail, consumer goods and financial services industries are leading, accounting for more than a quarter of the total wealth.
Entrepreneurs with rapid wealth growth this year mainly come from new energy industries with favorable “double carbon” policies, such as Gotham Adani of Adani group in India, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.Limited(300750) Zeng Yuqun, Luo Liguo of Hesheng silicone company and Harold ham of continental resources of the United States; Biotechnology industry, such as Ugur Sahin of German vaccine manufacturer biontech, Stephen bansell of American vaccine manufacturer Moderna and Xie Liangzhi of Sinocelltech Group Limited(688520) ; Luxury industry, such as Bernard Arnott of LVMH, Bertrand Piech of Hermes and Zheng Jiachun of Chow Tai Fook; Semiconductor industry, such as Huang Renxun of NVIDIA, Li Min of Rockchip Electronics Co.Ltd(603893) and Zhang Zhongmou of TSMC; Software and service industries, such as Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Tang Xiaoou of Shangtang and Larry Ellison of Oracle; Shipping industry, such as Kraussmaffei Company Limited(600579) – Michael Kuhn of Dexun and Yang Shaopeng of Haifeng.
In addition, over the past year, the M & A transactions of listed entrepreneurs were very active. Led by Microsoft, the main source of wealth of Steve Ballmer, they acquired world of Warcraft developer Activision Blizzard, AI and voice recognition company nuance communications, with a total transaction volume of more than 90 billion US dollars.
Compared with last year, the total amount of M & A transactions of companies or individuals on Hurun’s global rich list has more than doubled.
“The wealth concentration and economic influence of entrepreneurs on the list are very high. There are nearly 3400 US $1 billion entrepreneurs worldwide, twice as many as ten years ago; 260 US $10 billion entrepreneurs, three times as many as ten years ago; 10 US $100 billion entrepreneurs, twice as many as last year, and none five years ago.” Hurun said that according to this growth rate, he predicted that by 2030, the number of global $1 billion entrepreneurs will reach more than 8000, the number of $10 billion entrepreneurs will exceed 600, the number of $100 billion entrepreneurs will reach more than 50, and there will be the first trillion dollar entrepreneur.
