The list of Hurun Millionaires has revealed it

The report has just been made public Hurun Global Rich List 2025 that, for 14 years, monitors the Greater fortunes of Asiaand serves as a barometer to know more accurately the financial situation of Chinese millionaires.

Hurun’s report this year corroborates what other reports such as’ already showedBillionaire Ambions Report 2024 ‘prepared by the Financial Entity UBS, which shows a 5% increase in the number of billionaires compared to last year. “60% of this year’s billionaires were not on the list ten years ago, demonstrating how wealth creation has changed dramatically with the arrival of new technologies,” say the authors of the report.

In addition to the increase in the number of millionaires, the total wealth of these magnates It also grew An impressive 13%, reflecting a positive year for financial markets and certain sectors such as artificial intelligence, financial asset management and entertainment.

The importance of Hurun report to understand Chinese wealth

If a Chinese millionaire were ‘La Revuelta’David Broncano could not ask his famous question “How much money do you have?“. As They pointed in The worldin Chinese culture, ostentation of wealth not only It is misleading sociallybut you can also get into legal problems due to strict government policiesas published CNN.

That is why reports such as Hurun are so valuable, since they analyze the Fortures of Asian millionaires. While in the West the lists of Forbes and Bloomberg are the referents to follow the Evolution of great fortunesthe Hurun list has become the most reliable source to understand the distribution of Wealth in China and other Asian countries.

Chinese billionaires: changes and trends

According to the Hurun report, Zhang Yiming, 42 and founder of Bytedance (the company behind Tiktok), has crowned as the Rica person in Chinawith an estimated fortune of 60,000 million dollars. To put it in context, Forbes attributed a fortune even greater than 65.5 billion dollars, while Bloomberg approached the estimate of Hurun attributing 57,500 million.

In this way, Yiming would have unseat Zhong Shanshan, known as the “King of bottled water“, which happens to take second place with an estimated fortune of 55,000 million dollars.

Pony Ma, 54 and founder of Tencent is another of the millionaires who has climbed positions in 2025. Hurun calculates a heritage of 44,000 million dollarswhich is far from the 56.8 billion that calculated the Bloomberg list and 53,800 of the Forbes list.

One of the big surprises of this edition of the Hurun report has been given by Robin Zeng Yuqun, founder and president of the CATL battery manufacturer. The battery business has been decisive for the development of the electric car in China, which has made Zeng Yuq a fortune grown 61% in just one year, reaching the 37,000 million dollars.

For its part, Colin Huangfounder of Pinduoduo (matrix to which it belongs Temu) has lost two positions to take fifth place among the richest in China. It is estimated that Huang’s heritage amounts to 36,000 million dollarshaving reduced its assets by 32%.

The authors of the report highlighted the patrimonial increase of Lei Jun, 56, and founder of Xiaomi, who has increased his fortune by more than 114%. Although it is far from having become the richest man in China, as commented A few weeks agoJun has climbed many positions until he placed himself in the seventh place of the ranking of major fortunes in China with a heritage of 30,000 million dollars.

Chinese and American millionaires

The Hurun 2025 report reveals that China has 823 billionaires, an increase of nine compared to the previous year. However, by First time in ten years, The United States has surpassed China In the number of billionaires, with 870 ultrarricos, an increase of 70 with respect to the 2024 report.

As for the activity sectors, in China the Technology billionaireselectronic commerce and the manufacturing industry. On the other hand, the great fortunes of the United States have forged in the sectors of technology, finance and commerce.

The convergence point is found in AI, where the fortunes of US millionaires as Jensen Huang either Sam Altman They have increased considerably for 2024 thanks to their role in this technology, but they find their counterpoint in figures such as Liang Wenfengfounder of Deepseek, who has made stagger the foundations of the AI ​​industry on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

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