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Just this past April 5, the American fortune magazine Forbes released a new edition of the 2022 Global Billionaires List.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk replaced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the world's richest man with a net worth of $219 billion. This is Musk's first time to top the Forbes Global Rich List.
Musk Image source: Forbes WeChat public account
Affected by last year's global stock market turmoil, the wealth of billionaires has also shrunk sharply. Forbes said that although the total wealth of those on this year's list reached $12.7 trillion, it was down from $13.1 trillion last year. The number of people on the list also fell 87 places from last year to 2,668.
Among all the richest people on the list, the number of richest people in the United States is 736, ranking first in the world. In terms of domestic riches, the 67-year-old Zhong has become China's richest man for two consecutive years with a net worth of $65.7 billion.
Zhong Shuishui Image source: Forbes WeChat public account
In this rich list, Zhong Xiaoshan ranked 17th.
Forbes said that although Nongfu Spring's stock price has fallen by more than 15% in the past year, the rise in the stock price of Beijing Wantai Biopharmaceuticals has made up for the loss. Zhong holds a 75% stake in the company, which develops and produces biodiagnostic reagents and vaccines.
As of noon on April 6, Nongfu Spring closed at HK$42.6 per share, with a market capitalization of about HK$479.1 billion.
In the annual report released by Nongfu Spring on the 28th, in 2021, the company's total income was 29.696 billion yuan (the same unit below), up 29.8% year-on-year; the profit attributable to the owners of the parent company was 7.162 billion yuan, an increase of 35.7% year-on-year; the gross profit margin was 59.5%, which was basically the same as in 2020; the basic profit per share was 0.64 yuan, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year; and the proposed dividend at the end of the period was 0.45 yuan per share.
Among them, the annual revenue of packaged drinking water products was 17.058 billion yuan, an increase of 22.1% year-on-year, accounting for 57.4% of the total revenue in 2021; the annual revenue of tea beverage products was 4.579 billion yuan, an increase of 48.3% over 2020; the annual revenue of functional beverage products was 3.695 billion yuan, an increase of 32.3% year-on-year; and the annual revenue of fruit juice beverage products was 2.614 billion yuan, an increase of 32.2% year-on-year.
Nongfu Shanquan said that it will continue to build private domain traffic, lock in longer-term consumption and passenger flow, upgrade the new retail operation platform, and empower business through data statistics, analysis, and label management to tap the potential of new retail business.
In addition, Zhong also controls a listed company in the A-share market, Wantai Biotech.
Wantai Bio disclosed its annual report on the evening of March 17, 2021, the company's operating income in 2021 was 5.75 billion yuan, an increase of 144.25% year-on-year; the net profit attributable to the mother was 2.021 billion yuan, an increase of 198.59% year-on-year; and the basic earnings per share were 3.33 yuan. For every 10 shares, 2 bonus shares will be issued and a cash dividend of 2 yuan (including tax) will be distributed, while all shareholders will be increased by 2.5 shares for every 10 shares.
As of noon on April 6, the market value of Wantai Bio was about 169 billion yuan, and the stock price closed at 278.41 yuan / share.
China's richest man, second only to Mr. Zhong, is Zhang Yiming, 38, who ranks 25th on the Forbes billionaire list with a fortune of $50 billion. The two are also the only two Chinese billionaires in the top 25 of this list.
Zhang Yiming Image source: Forbes WeChat public account
The source of wealth that fueled Zhang Yiming's becoming a billionaire is undoubtedly ByteDance. In November last year, Zhang Yiming announced that he was stepping down as chairman of ByteDance.
Forbes said that ByteDance is the world's most valuable unlisted unicorn company today, and its most famous short video platform, TikTok, has reached 1 billion monthly active users.
Surprisingly, Ma Huateng, who ranked 15th last year, and Huang Zheng, who ranked 21st, fell out of the top 25. The sharp decline in the stock prices of Tencent and Pinduoduo in the past year has also reduced the wealth level of these two billionaires.
(Comprehensive reporting by this newspaper and Forbes China)
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