{"id":337828,"date":"2025-10-28T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:00:19","slug":"china-minted-a-new-billionaire-every-day-last-year-as-wealthy-class-swelled-to-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337828\/","title":{"rendered":"China minted a new billionaire every day last year as wealthy class swelled to a record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China saw a remarkable increase in the number of ultra-wealthy individuals over the past year, driven by a bull market in stocks, with leaders of \u201cnew economy\u201d companies emerging as the primary beneficiaries, according to the Hurun Research Institute.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A record 1,434 individuals made it onto Hurun\u2019s latest China Rich List, each having a net worth of at least 5 billion yuan (US$702 million). This marked an increase of 340 individuals, or 31 per cent, from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The collective wealth of these affluent individuals reached 30 trillion yuan, a 42 per cent rise compared with last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhong Shanshan, the second-richest person in 2024, reclaimed the No 1 position this year as his fortune surged 56 per cent to 530 billion yuan. The 71-year-old, who controls China\u2019s largest bottled water producer Nongfu Spring, has topped the rich list for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance and the richest person last year, fell to second place despite a 34 per cent increase in his fortune to 470 billion yuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China saw a remarkable increase in the number of ultra-wealthy individuals over the past year, driven by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,21766,166886,79,166887,18316,166888,2437,67,132,68,166890,166889],"class_list":{"0":"post-337828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-catl","10":"tag-china-rich-list","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-gloomy-economy","13":"tag-ipos","14":"tag-new-economy-firms","15":"tag-stock-market","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-zhang-yiming","20":"tag-zhong-shanshan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115450506376457451","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}