Li Hejun, the CEO of renewable energy firm Hanergy, has been named the richest person in mainland China, overthrowing Alibaba’s Jack Ma.
With a personal fortune of 26 billion USD, Li was named the richest person on the mainland by Hurun’s 2015 Global Rich List. He is one of 430 mainland billionaires to make it onto the list, making it the home of the second largest number of billionaires; closely following the US which had 537 people named in the rankings.
Hong Kong, Beijing and three other Chinese cities made it into the top 20 list of cities that are home to the most billionaires.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is still top of the heap however, with an estimated personal wealth of 85 billion USD.
Source: Shanghai Daily
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An engineer working for a company that manufactures industrial use UV light filtering window coatings told me a few years ago about how production of solar panels seriously contaminates the environment. Do you believe this richest man in china don't know photovaltaic production produces one of the most toxic pollutants known to mankind? Money, money, money. mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/sinosphere/2014/06/02/chinas-solar-panel-production-comes-at-a-dirty-cost/?_r=0&referrer=
Feb 06, 2015 09:02 Report Abuse
These lists are pointless. They don't include families like the Rockefellers or Arab oil magnates who basically control the world and have all the money. Also, I like how these articles always refer to HK as a Chinese City, when in reality the world views Hong Kong as a country - which it is!
Feb 05, 2015 13:32 Report Abuse
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