Text/Leju Institute of Finance and Economics Wei Wei
On October 27, the Hurun Research Institute released the "Hurun Rich List", and the number of people in the 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. Manufacturing, big health, real estate, chemicals and financial investment are the top five sources of wealth for entrepreneurs on the list.
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.
From the perspective of industry classification, the proportion of people in the real estate industry continued to decline, ranking third with 9.4%. Hurun said that in this list, for the first time in the real estate industry, no entrepreneur has entered the top ten. The top two in the real estate industry this year are Country Garden's Yeung Wai-yeon and Henderson Land Development's Lee Shau Kee, who ranked 11th and 15th on the list with 185 billion yuan and 170 billion yuan respectively.
According to leju finance statistics, a total of 370 entrepreneurs involved in the real estate industry were listed, with a total wealth of 5,922.5 billion yuan. From the perspective of related real estate enterprises, including Midea, Country Garden, Shimao, Wanda, Longhu, Evergrande, Hopson Chuangzhan, Longguang, Sunac and so on.
The top 5 are He Xiangjian Family, Yang Huiyan Family, Chen Jianhua, Fan Hongwei and his wife, Li Shau Kee and Zheng Jiachun, and the corresponding real estate companies are Midea, Country Garden, Hengli, Henderson Zhaoye and Chow Tai Fook. From the perspective of wealth value, there are 10 people with more than 100 billion yuan, and the total wealth value of the top 39 entrepreneurs on the list accounts for half of the list.
Since the beginning of this year, the real estate market has been thunderstorm, the default of housing enterprise bonds has been frequent, and the personal value of the boss has also shrunk.
As the richest man in 2017, Evergrande Xu Jiayin's wealth fell by 162 billion yuan from last year, which is the most wealth-reducing entrepreneur on this year's list, falling from 5th to 70th last year with 73 billion. The wealth of Wang Wenwen, who is happy in China, fell by more than 40 billion to 6 billion yuan, ranking 1197th, down 1109 places compared with last year.
Due to financial problems, Baoneng Yao Zhenhua fell from 105 billion yuan last year to this year, Suning Zhang Jindong 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.