2021 Hurun Rich List: Zhong Jingzuo ranked first Ma Yun Ma Huateng fell out of the top three

On October 27, the Hurun Research Institute released the "2021 Hurun Rich List". According to the list, Zhong Shuizuo, founder of Nongfu Mountain Spring, became the richest man in China for the first time with 390 billion yuan, and Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, and Zeng Yuqun, chairman of Ningde Times, ranked second and third. In 2020, Ma Yun and Ma Huateng, who ranked in the top two of the list, fell out of the top three in the 2021 list.

　　According to reports, this year is the 23rd consecutive release of the "Hurun Rich List" by the Hurun Research Institute since 1999, and the threshold for the list has remained 2 billion yuan for the ninth consecutive year. The deadline for calculating the wealth of entrepreneurs on the list is September 15, 2021.

　　According to the list, the number of Hurun Rich List expanded by 22%, an increase of 520 people from last year's 2398 people, reaching 2918 entrepreneurs with a wealth of more than 2 billion yuan, which is three times that of ten years ago. The total wealth of the entrepreneurs on the list is up 24% from last year's 27.5 trillion yuan, reaching 34 trillion, which is 6 times that of a decade ago. The number of 100 billion entrepreneurs increased by 4 compared with last year, reaching 45, and there was not a single one ten years ago. Billionaire entrepreneurs are 307 more than last year's 878, to 1,185, five times more than a decade ago.

　　The list shows that there are 4 newcomers in the top 10: Zhang Yiming of today's headlines, Zeng Yuqun of the Ningde era, Wei Jianjun of Great Wall Motors, Han Xuejuan and his wife, and the Li Ka-shing family of Cheung Kong Industrial. The threshold for the top ten is 193 billion yuan, down 7 billion yuan from 200 billion yuan last year. The average age of the top ten is 58 years, which is 4 years older than last year.

　　Nongfu Shanquan's 67-year-old Zhong's wealth increased by 25 billion yuan, or 7%, compared with last year, becoming China's richest man for the first time with 390 billion yuan.

　　The wealth of Zhang Yiming, the 38-year-old founder of Douyin, has tripled to three times last year, growing by 230 billion, surpassing Ma Huateng and Ma Yun, jumping to second place with 340 billion yuan.

　　Driven by the carbon neutral "3060" target, new energy-related industries have grown rapidly this year. The wealth of Zeng Yuqun, a 53-year-old supplier of new energy vehicle batteries in Ningde Times, has grown to nearly 3 times last year, increasing by 200 billion yuan, entering the top three for the first time with 320 billion yuan; the wealth of Wei Jianjun and Han Xuejuan of Great Wall Motors has increased to nearly 5 times that of last year, an increase of 173 billion yuan, jumping to seventh with 218 billion yuan; Zhang Xinghai and Yan Min, who do new energy vehicles, are the entrepreneurs with the largest wealth growth on this year's list, increasing to 7.5 times last year, reaching 22 billion yuan.

　　Ma Huateng's wealth, 50, fell 73 billion yuan, or 19 percent, from last year, to fourth place with 317 billion yuan. Last year, the wealth of the richest man, Ma Yun, fell by 145 billion yuan, or 36%, ranking fifth with 255 billion yuan, and was the entrepreneur with the largest decline in wealth after Xu Jiayin on this year's list.

　　The 41-year-old Huang Zheng's wealth increased by 9 billion yuan over last year, ranking sixth with 229 billion yuan, up two places from last year.

　　The wealth of Wei Jianjun and Han Xuejuan of Great Wall Motors has increased to nearly five times that of last year, that is, an increase of 173 billion yuan, jumping to seventh with 218 billion yuan, up 89 places from last year. This is the second time Wei Jianjun has entered the top ten, the first time was in 2013, and he once ranked fourth.

　　Li Ka-shing, 93, and his family ranked eighth with a fortune of 215 billion yuan.

　　The 79-year-old He Xiangjian and his family wealth fell by 12 billion yuan from last year, ranking ninth with 213 billion yuan, down three places from last year.

　　Wang Wei's wealth, 51, fell 47 billion yuan, or 20 percent, from last year, to tenth with 193 billion yuan, down six places from last year.

　　The list also shows that the wealth of Xu Jiayin, the richest man in 2017, Fell by 162 billion yuan from last year, which is the most declining entrepreneur in wealth this year's list, falling from the fifth place last year to the 70th place with 73 billion yuan. Huaxia Happy 54-year-old Wang Wenwen's wealth fell by more than 40 billion to 6 billion yuan. The top two in the real estate industry this year are Country Garden's 40-year-old Yang Huiyan and Henderson Land Development's 93-year-old Lee Shau Kee, who ranked 11th and 15th on the list with 185 billion yuan and 170 billion yuan respectively. HuRun, Chairman and Chief Research Officer of Hurun Report, said: "For the first time in the real estate industry, no entrepreneur has entered the top ten. ”

　　From the perspective of the decline in wealth, the biggest decline this year is Zhang Bangxin, a 40-year-old off-campus training institution, down 94% (nearly 90 billion) to 5.7 billion yuan. New Oriental Yu Minhong's wealth shrank from 26 billion yuan last year to 7.5 billion, and Gaotu Education Chen Xiangdong fell from 80 billion yuan last year to this year.

　　Due to financial problems, Baoneng Yao Zhenhua fell from 105 billion yuan last year to this year, Suning Zhang Jindong's wealth shrank from 102 billion yuan last year to 24 billion, and Oceanwide Lu Zhiqiang's wealth shrank from 62 billion yuan last year to 20 billion yuan. (Zhongxin Jingwei APP)