【Text/Observer Network Lv Dong】
On April 5, Forbes magazine released the 2022 Global Billionaire List, and Tesla CEO Musk topped the list for the first time, and four of the top five were from the United States. Domestically, Zhong Shuishui, the helmsman of companies such as Nongfu Spring, has become the top ranking person in China for two consecutive years.
It is worth mentioning that due to factors such as the decline in the stock prices of Internet companies, the number of Chinese rich people entering the list has decreased by 87 compared with last year, and the wealth of rich people such as Tencent CEO Ma Huateng, Pinduoduo founder Huang Zheng, and Alibaba founder Ma Yun has shrunk significantly, and the ranking has also fallen sharply.
Screenshot of the official website of Forbes (the same below)
According to Forbes, Tesla CEO Elon Musk's wealth has increased by $68 billion in the past year.
In this list, Musk surpassed Bezos to top the Forbes list of the world's richest people for the first time with a net worth of $219 billion. It is worth mentioning that Musk has concentrated on dumping a large number of volatile, more than $16 billion worth of Tesla shares in two months last year, and may have created the largest amount of personal annual tax bills ever created.
Amazon founder Bezos followed Musk with a net worth of $171 billion. This is the first time in the past four years that Bezos has lost the position of the world's richest man. As Amazon stock fell 3 percent, Bezos's fortune fell $6 billion from last year. Luxury group LVMH leader Bernard Arnault is third on the list with a net worth of $158 billion; Bill Gates and Buffett are fourth and fifth, respectively.
The top 10 on the list
"Forbes" pointed out that due to the impact of last year's global stock market shock, the number of people on the 2022 Forbes Global Billionaires List decreased by 87 places from last year to 2668. While the total wealth of this year's list reached $12.7 trillion, it is down from $13.1 trillion last year.
Of all the richest people on the list, the United States ranks first in the world with 736 richest people, an increase of 12 places from last year; China ranks second in the list, with a total of 607 rich people with a total of $2.3 trillion, 87 fewer than last year.
The list shows that Zhong, 67, with a net worth of $65.7 billion, is China's top person on the list for two consecutive years, ranking 17th in the overall list. 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 this loss, and Zhong holds a 75% stake in the company engaged in the research and development and production of biological diagnostic reagents and vaccines.
On March 28, nongfu Spring disclosed a financial report showing that the company's total income in 2021 was 29.696 billion yuan, up 29.8% year-on-year; profit attributable to owners of the parent company was 7.162 billion yuan, an increase of 35.7% year-on-year; gross profit margin was 59.5%, basically the same as in 2020; basic earnings per share was 0.64 yuan, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year.
In the product structure, 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 juice beverage products was 2.614 billion yuan, an increase of 32.2% year-on-year.
According to the financial report disclosed by Wantai Bio, the company achieved operating income of 5.75 billion yuan in 2021, an increase of 144.25% year-on-year; net profit attributable to the mother of 2.021 billion yuan, an increase of 198.59% year-on-year; basic earnings per share of 3.33 yuan.
As of the close of trading on April 6, Hong Kong-listed Nongfu Spring closed down nearly 4% with a market value of about HK$472 billion; A-share listed Wantai Biotech closed up 0.71% with a market value of 169.4 billion yuan.
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is the second-largest Chinese billionaire on the list, ranking 25th on the list with a net worth of $50 billion. According to Forbes, ByteDance is the world's most valuable unlisted unicorn company today. In November last year, Zhang Yiming announced that he was stepping down as chairman of ByteDance. As China tightens its internet platform regulations, many founders of Chinese tech giants, including Zhang Yiming, have opted out of management.
According to the list, Zeng Yuqun, the founder of CATL, ranked 29th, up 23 places from last year, sitting on a wealth of 44.8 billion US dollars; Tencent CEO Ma Huateng, with a net worth of 37.2 billion US dollars, ranked 34th, a sharp drop of 19 places compared with last year; Li Ka-shing, a rich man in Hong Kong, Ranked 37th, with a net asset of 34.8 billion US dollars, up 6 places from last year.
The Observer Network noted that Huang Zheng, the founder of Pinduoduo, who ranked 24th on the list last year, ranked 173rd on the list with a wealth of 11.3 billion US dollars this year, down 149 places. Alibaba founder Jack Ma ranked 67th this year with a net worth of $22.8 billion, down 41 places from last year.
In addition, Midea He Xiangjian, NetEase Ding Lei, SF Wang Wei, Makihara Qin Yinglin, Geely Li Shufu, Ningde Era Huang Shilin, Haitian Flavor Industry Pang Kang, BYD Wang Chuanfu, Country Garden Yang Huiyan, Hengli Petrochemical Fan Hongwei, Zhifei Bio Jiang Rensheng, Zhengwei International Group Wang Wenyin, Hengrui Pharmaceutical Sun Piaoyang, Hesheng Group Luo Liguo and other Chinese billionaires and their families also entered the top 100 of the list.
Some of the richest Chinese people in the top 100 of the list
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