A full year after Nongfu Shanquan went public in Hong Kong, the unusually low-key Zhejiang billionaire Zhong Sui has once again become the focus of the media, and in the "2021 Hurun Rich List" released on October 27, 67-year-old Zhong Sui became China's richest man with 390 billion yuan, and his wealth value increased by 7% or 25 billion yuan compared with 2020.
The science and technology industry still plays a leading role, and the real estate industry is the loneliest
In this list, 38-year-old ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming jumped to second place with 340 billion yuan, in the context of anti-monopoly, with the popularity of douyin and TikTok products in the world, Zhang Yiming's wealth value soared three times compared with the previous year, achieving the wealth of Ma Yun and Ma Huateng, two Internet leaders.
In third place is Zeng Yuqun, the founder of the A-share ChiNext board "stock king" Ningde Era, with the soaring stock price of the Ningde Era in the past year, the wealth value of the 53-year-old Zeng Yuqun has also risen to 320 billion yuan, becoming the richest man in China's new energy industry.
Ma Huateng and Jack Ma ranked fourth and fifth respectively, but due to the sharp decline in the stock prices of Tencent and Alibaba, their wealth value has also shrunk significantly, which also highlights the direct impact of anti-monopoly on Internet platforms.
Tencent Ma Huateng and Alibaba Ma Yun, both of whom were also China's richest men.
Judging from the top ten of this list, the technology industry is still the main force of China's super-rich, occupying four seats in the top ten, close to half of the country, but the traditional industry is obviously in 2021, especially the rise of new energy vehicles, making new manufacturing such as the Ningde era a hot target in the capital market.
If you compare the rich list of the United States, in the latest Bloomberg billionaire index, the top ten richest people in the United States are almost all from the Internet and technology industries, of which the fastest wealth growth is also from the energy automotive industry Tesla founder Musk, which seems to indicate that China and the United States in technology and new energy vehicles, the future will still be a fierce competitive situation.
In particular, it is worth noting that with the passing of the "golden age" of China's real estate industry, the mainland real estate tycoons have all withdrawn from the top ten, and xu Jiayin, the founder of Evergrande Group, who is in debt crisis, has plunged more than 160 billion yuan in wealth value in the past year, and the literary wealth of another mainland real estate company, Huaxia Happiness Wang, has also dropped by more than 40 billion yuan over the previous year.
If you compare the list in 2011, four of the top ten big men from the real estate industry, namely Evergrande Xu Jiayin, Wanda Wang Jianlin, Longhu Wu Yajun, Country Garden Yang Huiyan, occupy almost half of the country, but with the implementation of China's "housing not speculation" policy, and the deleveraging of the entire real estate industry, the future real estate industry will no longer be the kind of mass wealth-making machine of the past.
Zhong Is the lowest key, and Zhang Yiming is the most promising to become the new richest man
Zhong, who sits on the throne of China's richest man this time, can be described as one of the most low-key super-rich people in the mainland, compared with the advertising slogan "Farmer Mountain Spring is a little sweet" that is popular in the mainland, Zhong Jing, as the founder of this company, rarely accepts media interviews.
In fact, Zhong's attention to the media stemmed from media reports in September 2021, when Nongfu Spring was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and Zhong's net worth reached $62.9 billion, replacing Ma Huateng as China's new richest man. However, the richest man has very little public coverage, although he has been a reporter for Zhejiang Daily for 5 years, but he is unusually low-key.
On September 8, 2020, Nongfu Spring was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which also made its founder Zhong Shuishan once become the richest man in China, and the picture shows the stock price trend chart of Nongfu Spring
Zhong was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang in early December 1954, because he dropped out of school and only went to the fifth grade of primary school, during which he worked as a mason and carpenter, failed two exams after resuming the college entrance examination in 1977, was admitted to the University of Electricity and Television after listening to his parents' advice, graduated from Zhejiang Radio and Television University in 1985, entered the rural department of Zhejiang Daily as a reporter after graduation, resigned in the 1990s to do business in Hainan, founded Yangshengtang in 1993, and founded Nongfu Shanquan in September 1996.
Zhong has created Well-known Chinese beverage brands such as Nongfu Spring, Nongfu Orchard, screaming, etc., and owns two listed companies, Nongfu Spring and Wantai Bio, with a total market value of more than 500 billion yuan. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index on October 27, Zhong's net wealth reached $65.7 billion, ranking 17th in the world and 2nd in Asia.
On The Bloomberg Billionaires Index on October 27, Zhong ranked 17th in the world, 2nd in Asia, and the richest Man in China and the richest man in China.
As the new richest man in China and the richest man in China, Zhong Is a solitary person who claims to not like to deal with people and is regarded by the outside world as a "lone wolf", which is an extremely rare existence in the Zhejiang business community that likes to hug groups.
Similar to Zhong, Zhang Yiming, who is nearly 30 years younger than him, is also one of the most low-key rich people in China's Internet industry, and his TikTok is a global attack, with more than 1 billion users and second only to Facebook in downloads. ByteDance is also the most expensive internet company that has not yet IPO, with a market valuation of $500 billion at one point in July.
In terms of personal wealth, Zhang Yiming's wealth has grown by 230 billion yuan in the past year to jump to second place with 340 billion yuan, and if ByteDance completes its IPO in the next one or two years, Zhang Yiming has the opportunity to become the youngest chinese richest man.
Although his wealth is growing, Zhang Yiming himself is extremely low-key, hardly accepting public interviews from the media, and announced in May this year that he would resign as CEO of ByteDance at the end of the year, becoming one of the earliest founders to retire in the Internet industry.
According to public information, Zhang Yiming was born in 1983 in Longyan, Fujian Province, was admitted to Nankai University in 2001, during which he switched from microelectronics major to software engineering, after graduating in 2005, he worked briefly in a number of IT companies, started a business in October 2009, and founded ByteDance in 2012.
2012 is the leap of China's Internet from computers to mobile phones, Ali, Tencent, Baidu and other companies are looking for tickets in the mobile Internet era, and Zhang Yiming is also aware of this opportunity, and believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to recommend news to users who use smartphones.
Zhang Yiming launched today's headlines in August 2012, changing the past editors to recommend news to personalized recommendation of news by machines and AI according to user preferences, which has almost completely changed the communication rules of China's media industry, not only exacerbating the decline of traditional media, but also the portal website has also sunset, and the self-media has risen rapidly.
It is generally believed that Zhang Yiming is a technical school in the Internet industry and firmly believes that technology will change society, but the personalized recommendation model he created relies too much on AI to recommend information, and it also makes people worry that users will fall into the "information cocoon". After Douyin and TikTok have become the hottest apps on smartphones in the past two years, such criticism has continued.
Perhaps, it is not willing to fall into the debate with the outside world, Zhang Yiming in addition to the annual internal speech, rarely accept public interviews with the media, and after the official resignation of ByteDance CEO at the end of this year, Zhang Yiming, who is less than 40 years old, can not make the next "world-changing" Internet product, which is also the expectation of many people.
But what is certain is that once ByteDance goes public in the future, Zhang Yiming is likely to become the richest man in China in the new generation.