Source of this article: Time Weekly Author: He Mingjun
"Who says carrying water doesn't make money? We are the porters of wealth! Under the ridicule of netizens, Nongfu Spring (09633. HK) founder Zhong Shuizuo sits firmly in China's position as the richest man.
On October 27, Hurun Research Institute released the "2021 Hurun Rich List", which is the 23rd consecutive time since 1999 that The Hurun Research Institute has released the Hurun Rich List, and the deadline for calculating the wealth of entrepreneurs on the list is September 15, 2021. A total of 2918 entrepreneurs were listed this time, and the total wealth of the entrepreneurs on the list increased by 24% to 34 trillion yuan compared with 27.5 trillion yuan in 2020, which is 6 times that of 10 years ago.
With a fortune of 390 billion yuan, Zhong replaced Alibaba founder Jack Ma as The new richest man in China. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and NINGDE Times (300750. SZ) chairman Zeng Yuqun entered the top ten of the list for the first time, ranking 2nd and 3rd respectively, with a wealth difference of 20 billion yuan between the two, and the wealth gap between Zhang Yiming and Zhong Suishan was also narrowed to 50 billion yuan.
The former richest man, the Jack Ma family, slipped to No. 5, with a 36% drop in wealth. Tencent Holdings (00700. HK) founders Ma Huateng, Midea (000333. SZ) Ho Heng Kin family, SF Holdings (002352. SZ) Wang Wei's net worth has declined to varying degrees. In addition, there are no real estate developers among the top ten richest people.
New forces are on the rise
Judging from the previous list, China's top ten richest people have long been occupied by the Internet field, and the "two horses" take turns to sit on the seat of the richest man. The richest man in 2020 is the Ma Yun family (400 billion yuan), and the second is Ma Huateng (390 billion yuan), the difference between the two is not large, and the threshold for the ten richest people before 2020 is also the highest in history of 200 billion yuan.
In 2021, the 100 richest people list will be reshuffled, and the threshold for the top ten richest people will be lowered to 193 billion yuan. In September 2020, Nongfu Spring was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and its stock price was as high as HK$68.546 per share, and Zhong Shuishui, who held 84.4% of the shares, soared overnight. In addition, Zhong also holds a total of wantai biological (603392. SH) 75.15% stake. With the blessing of two listed companies, Zhong, who also ranked third in 2020, defeated the "second horse" in one fell swoop and became the richest man in China.
Ma Huateng and Ma Yun both failed to retain the second place, and ByteDance Zhang Yiming replaced it with a dark horse posture. ByteDance has not yet been listed, and it is reported that ByteDance's listing plan has been postponed to 2022. The list shows that Zhang Yiming's net worth increased by 209% over last year to 340 billion yuan, and the ranking also rose by 28 places from last year.
Also among the top ten richest people is Zeng Yuqun in the Ningde era, which is the best ranking in the history of entrepreneurs in the field of new energy. Zeng Yuqun is the head of the Domestic Power Battery leading enterprise Ningde Era, with a net worth of 320 billion yuan, an increase of 200 billion yuan over last year. In addition, Huang Shilin, vice chairman of CATL, ranked 24th with a net worth of 138 billion yuan, up 51 places from last year, and his net worth increased by 151%.
In the Ningde era, a family created two "100 billionaires". On the evening of October 26, CATL announced the "2021 Stock Option and Restricted Stock Incentive Plan (Draft)". If the incentive plan is successfully implemented, the Ningde era will create a number of millionaires and become a veritable "rich maker".
In addition to the Ningde era, new energy-related enterprises have grown rapidly this year. Great Wall Motor (601633. SH) Wei Jianjun and Han Xuejuan's wealth grew nearly five times (about 173 billion yuan) last year, jumping to 7th place with a net worth of 218 billion yuan; Xiaokang shares (601127. SH) Zhang Xinghai and Yan Min are the "kings" in this year's list, with their wealth surging 7 times to 22 billion yuan, becoming the richest people in this year's list.
There is no doubt that manufacturing is the big winner of this year's list. Whether it is the proportion of people on the list or the proportion of wealth, manufacturing is ahead of other industries. The list shows that the number of manufacturing billionaires accounted for 27% of the total list, an increase of 3% over last year; wealth accounted for 24% of the total list, an increase of 5% over last year. Advanced manufacturing has become the main driving force for the growth of the manufacturing industry, accounting for 60%.
It is worth mentioning that Nie Yunchen, the founder of the milk tea brand "Xicha", has doubled his net worth to 10 billion yuan compared with last year, ranking as the richest man from scratch after the 90s, while Lu Jianxia and Han Yulong of Manner Coffee have been listed on the Hurun Rich List for the first time with a wealth of 3.5 billion yuan.
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<b>The education industry was wiped out</b>
The times create heroes, some people are on the list, and naturally some people fall off the list. The wealth of the rich is affected by the industry, and the change in the number of rich people in the industry often reflects the rise and fall of the industry.
The real estate industry is bearing the brunt. In the past, the real estate industry was one of the largest number of rich people born, but this year,the number of real estate industry people on the list has further declined, accounting for as low as 9.4%.
From the perspective of the real estate richest people on the list, Xu Jiayin, the richest man in 2017, failed to retain the top ten positions, falling from the fifth place last year to the 70th place, and his net worth also fell by 162 billion yuan to 73 billion yuan compared with last year. Longhu Real Estate (00960. HK) of Wu Yajun's family fell out of the top 30, ranking 46th with a net worth of 95 billion yuan. Huaxia Happiness (600340. SH)'s Wang Wenwen's net worth fell by more than 40 billion to 6 billion yuan, and has disappeared from the list of the top 100 richest people.
In the top 20 of the list, only Country Garden (02007.HK) is the main business of real estate. HK) of Yeung Wai Yeon Family, the newly listed Henderson Land Development's Lee Shau Kee and Chow Tai Fook (01929. HK) of the Cheng family.
In addition to real estate, the phenomenon of "wealth cooling" in the pork industry is also obvious. Both new hopes (000876. SZ's Liu Yonghao family is still Qin Yinglin and Qian Ying of Makihara Shares (002714.SZ), and their wealth has shrunk by more than 10 billion yuan and slipped to the edge of the "100 billionaire club".
The education industry is even more devastated. Affected by the "double reduction" policy, the education industry has not been able to regain its glory yesterday. The off-campus training institution has a good future, and the 40-year-old Zhang Bangxin has shrunk from nearly 90 billion yuan to 5.7 billion yuan. Yu Minhong, founder of the veteran education and training giant New Oriental (EDU.US; 09901.HK), has shrunk his net worth to 7.5 billion yuan from 26 billion yuan last year. Chen Xiangdong of Gaotu Education was worth 80 billion yuan last year, but this year it has disappeared from the list. The list of the top 100 richest people in the rich list also does not see the richest people in the education industry.
"From our list of the richest people, we can see that the structure and scale of Wealth Creation in China have changed very quickly in recent years, and half of the nearly 3,000 entrepreneurs on the list this year were not listed 5 years ago." HuRun, chairman and chief research officer of Hurun Report, said, "The impact of anti-monopoly and the decline in real estate, education, pork, games and other industries can be seen from the list of the richest people. ”