Text: Qingli
In 2022, the Hurun Research Institute launched a new edition of China's rich list, according to the specific ranking, it can be said that there has been a "big reshuffle" in the China rich list.
First of all, Ma Yun and Ma Huateng no longer occupy the top three of the rich list, which is also the first time since 2015 that the "two horses" have fallen out of the top three of China's rich list together. Li Ka-shing, once Asia's richest man, has now fallen to eighth place on the charts. In addition, Wang Jianlin, who has been China's richest man for three consecutive times and even ranked first in Asia for three consecutive times, failed to rank among the latest list of China's richest 20. Another real estate tycoon, Xu Jiayin, is worth less than 50 billion yuan in the latest rich list, falling out of the top 50 of China's rich list.
As the value of many rich people who once ranked at the top of the rich list shrank, the top 3 in the list became Zeng Yuqun, the founder of the Ningde era, and Zhang Yiming of ByteDance. In addition, China's richest man is still Zhong Shui of the "Water Moutai" Nongfu Mountain Spring, worth as much as 455 billion yuan.
These are some of the latest changes to China's rich list. In fact, over time, the focus on entrepreneurs has gone beyond the wealth sector. Evaluating whether an entrepreneur is successful is not only to see whether the entrepreneur can climb the rich list, but more importantly, whether the entrepreneur has a sense of social responsibility and whether he can use the wealth he has obtained to repay the society.
Therefore, from this point of view, compared with the rich list, the charity list is undoubtedly more meaningful, and helping others while developing a career is the responsibility of a successful entrepreneur. As Cao Dewang once said: "Entrepreneurs have no sense of responsibility, and at best they are rich." So, on the mainland, which entrepreneur does the most charity?
On April 11, the 2022 China Charity Entrepreneur List was released, and the total donation amount of the 100 entrepreneurs shortlisted in the list was as high as 54.4 billion yuan, and the minimum threshold for the list was 10 million yuan, of which 3 entrepreneurs donated more than 10 billion yuan. It is worth noting that the list counts the annual cash donations of these entrepreneurs in 2021, as well as equity donations, and many entrepreneurs choose to donate equity to their own or corporate foundations.
I believe that many people will think of Ma Yun, Cao Dewang, Ren Zhengfei and others when mentioning charity entrepreneurs. But in fact, on this list, the ranking of the three people is not prominent.
Among them, Ma Yun donated 270 million yuan, ranking 17th in the list. After Ma Yun stepped down from Ali, the whole person slowed down, and he was one of the few individual entrepreneurs who did not hold a position on the list. Although the current amount of donations is not as good as in previous years, for Ma Yun, doing charity silently is more about following the heart. It is worth mentioning that the list has been done for a total of six years so far, and there are 412 entrepreneurs on the list in six years, but only 9 are on the list for six consecutive years, and Ma Yun is among these 9.
In addition, in various public welfare lists, the names of Ma Yun and Alibaba can still be seen often, for example, in July last year, for Example, in Forbes' 2021 China Charity List, Ma Yun and Ali Group occupied the first place with a cash donation of 3.23 billion yuan. Since January 2020, the total price of anti-epidemic materials supported by Alibaba to all parts of the country has exceeded 480 million yuan, and the number of materials has exceeded 73 million pieces. In terms of resuming work and production during the epidemic, Ali has also used its digital capabilities to launch the "Spring Thunder Plan" to help small and medium-sized enterprises expand their customer sources, create a new digital industrial chain, and include the revitalization of agriculture and help farmers to promote agricultural development.
The information found from this charity list shows that Cao Dewang donated 100 million yuan, ranking 34th on the list. As we all know, "Glass King" Cao Dewang has always been enthusiastic about public welfare, and has been praised as "China's first good" many times, in fact, since 1983, when he contracted a glass factory, he began to donate. Although he could not make a few dollars at that time, he still insisted on helping the poor people with his meager strength. From the free purchase of desks for the school, to the outbreak of the Wuhan flood, he donated millions for post-disaster reconstruction, and then to the Wenchuan earthquake personally went to the disaster area to donate 20 million, every donation, you can see his support for public welfare. The statistics are the number of donations in 2021, although the ranking is not high, but he donated 10 billion yuan to Fuyao University of Science and Technology last year, and has started construction, which can be said to be a different way to dedicate his love.
It is worth mentioning that Ren Zhengfei also donated 30 million yuan, although it ranks low in the list, but it seems very real. You know, many entrepreneurs' donations are equity donations, mainly donated to their own foundations, while Cao Dewang and Ren Zhengfei donated real money and silver, and there are not so many routines. And Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei is China's real technology giant, the annual research and development investment of up to more than 100 billion yuan, so that China's 5G to reach the world's leading level, not only that, he also donated Huawei Euler and Hongmeng two systems to the National Open Atom Foundation, is indeed a praiseworthy entrepreneur.
Overall, the Internet is still one of the industries with the largest number of entrepreneurs donating, in addition to Ma Yun and Ma Huateng, Lei Jun, Wang Xing, huang Zheng's donation amount is very high. In addition, yang guoqiang, Yu Liang, Xu Jiayin, Wu Yajun and other entrepreneurs in the real estate industry have appeared in the list, of which Yang Guoqiang donated 350 million yuan and Xu Jiayin donated 140 million, and the amount of donations is relatively eye-catching.
Lei Jun, the founder of the world's top 500 Xiaomi Group, ranked first with a donation of 15 billion yuan, becoming the first good in China of the year. Xiaomi has not been absent in last year's Xi'an anti-epidemic, Henan torrential rains, Shanxi flood prevention and disaster relief and other events, according to Xiaomi Group's 2021 annual financial report, last year Xiaomi donated nearly 100 million yuan to help the poor and the poor. At the beginning of this year, the Xiaomi Charity Foundation also continued to donate money and materials to Shanghai, Jilin and other places, and it was another 16 million yuan of anti-epidemic support. Xiaomi and Lei Jun can indeed deserve a thumbs up in terms of public welfare.
In addition, Meituan's Wang Xing donated 14.6 billion yuan, and Anta's founder Ding Shizhong donated 10.1 billion yuan, and the two followed Lei Jun and ranked 2nd and 3rd in the 2022 List of Chinese Charity Entrepreneurs. The donation amount of 3 entrepreneurs exceeded 10 billion, which can be said to be a very remarkable number.
Which entrepreneur are you more familiar with, and are you on the list this time?