Musk topped Forbes’ global billionaires list and its companies rose sharply: Zhong Suisui and Zhang Yiming became China’s richest billionaires

Forbes released its 2022 list of the world’s billionaires. Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the top spot with $219 billion.

On Forbes’ 36th annual list of the world’s richest people, there are 2,668 richest people on the list, a decrease of 87 from a year ago. Their combined asset value is $12.7 trillion, $400 billion less than in 2021. Russia saw the biggest drop in the number of billionaires, with 34 fewer billionaires than last year after the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The United States still has the largest number of billionaires on the list, with 735 billionaires with a combined wealth of $4.7 trillion, including Musk, who topped the world’s billionaire list for the first time. China remains in second place with 607 billionaires with combined assets of $2.3 trillion.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos came in second, the first time in the past four years that Bezos has lost his position as the world’s richest man. Bezos’ fortune has fallen by $6 billion from last year as Amazon shares fell.

Bernard Arnault and his family, who control luxury goods giant LVMH, came in third. The performance of LVMH group brands Louis Vuitton and Dior during the epidemic has not decreased but increased, which has increased Bernard Arnault’s fortune by $8 billion.

And Zhong Suisui, chairman of Nongfu Spring, ranks 17th in the world’s richest list with US$65.7 billion, making him the richest man in China. 38-year-old Zhang Yiming ranked 25th with a fortune of US$50 billion and second in China. His wealth increased by US$14.4 billion from last year, and his ranking also rose by 14 places from 39th last year. ByteDance is the world’s most valuable unlisted unicorn company, and its most famous short-video platform, TikTok, has 1 billion monthly active users.

Ma Huateng and Huang Zheng dropped out of the top 25. In 2021, Ma Huateng ranks 15th, Huang Zheng ranks 21st, and Chinese billionaire and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and former Walmart chairman Rob Walton are tied for 19th with a net worth of US$65 billion.

In the early morning of April 6th, social media giant Twitter surged by more than 27% on Monday, setting the best single-day performance since the closing of the first day of its IPO in 2013. It continued to rise on Tuesday, April 5th, and rose by more than 9% during the session. , Twitter shares closed up 2.02%, hitting a five-month high since mid-November last year, and Musk’s other company, Tesla, did not perform very badly in the past two days.

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