Billionaire Lawmakers Ensure the Rich are Represented
With the Two Sessions now underway in Beijing, The New York Times’ Michael Forsythe...
Mar 6, 2015
With the Two Sessions now underway in Beijing, The New York Times’ Michael Forsythe...
Oct 31, 2013
At her South China Morning Post blog, Anna Healy Fenton sums up the recently released 2013 Hurun...
Aug 18, 2013
The Global Times looks at a new report from Hurun and GroupM Knowledge which shows that, amid an...
Dec 28, 2012
The Wall Street Journal’s James T. Areddy explores the intersection of wealth and power in today’s China: China has been grappling of late with political and social tension over its murky policy-making process and...
Oct 14, 2012
CDT previously reported on the Hurun rich list and the effect of the widening wealth gap in China. Forbes has released a report naming China’s 100 Richest individuals. Coinciding with the Hurun rich list,Wahaha founder and...
Sep 25, 2012
Hurun has released its annual list of China’s richest individuals. Topping the list for the second time in three years is Zong Qinghou, founder and chairman of beverage giant Wahaha Group, who owns a fortune worth $12.6...
Sep 7, 2011
The rich are getting richer in China, according to the most recent Hurun Rich List. From the Telegraph: China now has the second most billionaires in the world, after the United States with more than 400. “The numbers are...
Nov 4, 2009
Forbes has published its latest list of China’s 400 richest people: A quick comparison of our new Forbes China Rich List with that of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, published in September, appears to tell a...
Aug 23, 2009
China Daily reports on the release of the annual Hurun “rich list”: Beijing has the largest number of wealthy people in China, according to the report. It said there are 143,000 multimillionaires and 8,800...
Oct 8, 2008
Shanghai-based researcher Rupert Hoogewerf compiled the list of richest people in China for the third time. From Reuters Many of China’s richest people grew a bit poorer this year as stock and property markets tumbled, but...
Oct 7, 2008
From The Financial Times: China’s top 50 richest people lost almost a third of their wealth in the past year, the first decline since 2002, according to Hurun’s 2008 China Rich List, published on Tuesday. Steep declines in...
Jun 5, 2008
From Forbes: For decades after the end of World War II, Taiwan’s relationship with China was strained because of politics. Today, changes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are leading to hopes for better relations between...
Mar 6, 2008
A list of the richest 2008 NPC members who are listed on the Hurun Report of the wealthiest Chinese is being circulated in Chinese cyberspace. CDT translated some samples, from huangqiu.com: Zhang Yin & family – 2007...
Nov 10, 2007
Similar to the Fortune list of Chinese entrepreneurs, 2007 fortune list of Chinese authors was just released. According to the list, young Chinese around age 20 are the main readers of the book market as the winner Guo Jingming was born in 1983. Many of his books are about teenagers’ coming-of-age and romantic experiences. His […]
Oct 8, 2007
Yang Huiyan, a 26-year-old woman worth $16.2 billion, is China’s richest person, according to the new Forbes list. From USA Today: The China list’s rankings change sharply from year to year, reflecting the rapid evolution of the booming economy, which expanded by 11.9% in the most recent quarter. This year, there were 20 new names […]
Oct 10, 2006
The Financial Times reports on the latest “rich list” in China, which for the first time is this year topped by a woman: A female paper recycling entrepreneur worth an estimated $3.4bn has topped the latest list of mainland China’s richest people, marking the first time a woman has been ranked as the wealthiest person. […]
Sep 21, 2006
From China Business News (translated by CDT): How did a construction worker in Sichuan province become a Forbes China Billionaire? Bribery. Wang Dejun, who 20 years ago was a plasterer, was listed in 2004 on Forbes magazine’s list of Chinese billionaires with assets worth 1.1 billion yuan. In June this year, he stood trial on […]
Feb 17, 2006
From the Washington Post: The Communist Party officials who run this grimy steel town on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia had big ambitions but little finance. So they called in one of China’s most successful capitalists, Yan Jiehe, and let him handle almost everything. Yan used the same plan he has applied across China’s vast […]