On March 17, the Hurun Research Institute released the Hurun Global Rich List 2022. The deadline for calculating the wealth of entrepreneurs on the list is January 14, 2022, which is the eleventh consecutive year that The Hurun Research Institute has released the "Global Rich List". Among them, Tesla's 50-year-old Elon Musk became the world's richest man for the second consecutive year with 1.29 trillion yuan, and his wealth increased by 4% over last year.
Musk has been a frequent headliner over the past year, most recently announcing that SpaceX's Starlink system has been launched in Ukraine and will provide uninterrupted satellite network support. At present, Tesla's market value has exceeded 5 trillion yuan, exceeding the total market value of the next 10 automakers.
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In addition to Musk, a number of other Automakers are also on the list. In the top 1,000 of the Hurun Global Rich List, there are about 25 people from the automotive industry.
Among them, electric vehicles are one of the fastest growing industries in the world in the past year, in addition to the pioneer Tesla, the express car is also from China's electric vehicle companies Xiaopeng, Ideal and Weilai, their CEO wealth has also increased. He Xiaopeng leads Li Xiang (46.5 billion) and Li Bin (35.5 billion) with a wealth of 70 billion yuan, and the three are ranked 213, 403 and 582 respectively in the global rich list, and 12th, 16th and 18th respectively in the automotive industry rich list.
The electric vehicle market is booming, and its related industrial chain is also in full swing. Lithium battery giant CATL's 54-year-old Zeng Yuqun ranks second in the automotive industry, third in China and 24th in the world with a wealth of 335 billion yuan, up 19 places from last year, and enters the list of the world's top ten entrepreneurs with the most wealth growth. In the past year, under the favorable "double carbon" policy, CATL has become a benchmark enterprise for China's green economy. In addition, CATL is one of the most concerned listed companies in China's capital market in the past two years, and it is also the only company with a market value of more than 1 trillion yuan for listed enterprises on the ChiNext board. In 2021, CATL achieved a net profit of 14 billion yuan to 16.5 billion yuan, an increase of 150.75% to 195.52% year-on-year. For all the above reasons, it is not difficult to understand that CATL is the company with the largest number of people on the list.
Electric vehicle lithium battery industry in addition to the Ningde era, BYD, Yiwei lithium energy are also on the list, Mr. Liu Jincheng and Ms. Luo Jinhong of Ewell Lithium Energy ranked 168th in the world with a wealth of 82 billion, up 35 places from last year, the automotive industry ranked 10th; the lithium mining industry has Jiang Weiping of Tianqi on the list, ranking 385th in the world with 48.5 billion wealth; the nickel mining industry has Xiang Guangda, 64- of Qingshan Holdings, ranking among the top 1,000 in the world with 26.5 billion yuan.
In terms of traditional automakers, The performance of Chinese car companies at the helm is better than that of foreign car companies. Among them, led by Geely Li Shufu, the wealth of 150 billion yuan ranked 63rd in the world, followed by Wei Jianjun and Han Xuejuan of the Great Wall (145 billion), and Wang Chuanfu of BYD (140 billion). Among the foreign Automakers on the list, BMW's Mr. Stefan Corvante and Ms. Susanna Kraten are the richest, with assets of 125 billion yuan and 120 billion yuan respectively, ranking 8th and 9th in the automotive industry, and ranking among the top 100 in the world; followed by leaders from Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and other luxury car companies, and Hyundai Motors also has two people on the list.
It is worth mentioning that this year, 24 people have newly entered the top 100 of the Hurun global rich list, including Huang Shilin, the second shareholder of the Ningde era, Wei Jianjun of Great Wall Motors, and Wang Chuanfu of BYD. In the field of autonomous driving, the most profitable in the automotive industry, Chris Urmson, founder of the American self-driving company Aurora, was listed on the Hurun Global Rich List for the first time. Aurora was successfully listed last year and is currently worth $14 billion.
In addition, the point not reflected in our list is that due to the global semiconductor shortage last year, the accumulation of wealth in the semiconductor industry is also relatively fast, such as Huang Jenxun of NVIDIA and Zhang Zhongmou of TSMC.
(Articles/pictures are from Gaz Auto)