PANews reported on March 27 that the Hurun Research Institute released the "2025 Hurun Global Rich List", showing that the number of billionaires in the world has increased to 3,442, a record high, 163 more than last year. The United States ranks first with 870 billionaires, and China ranks second with 823.
Elon Musk, 53, retained his title as the world's richest man with a fortune of 3.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 82%, mainly due to the surge in Tesla's stock price. Jeff Bezos of Amazon ranked second with 1.94 trillion yuan, and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta ranked among the top three for the first time with 1.77 trillion yuan. Nvidia's Huang Renxun's wealth nearly tripled to 935 billion yuan, ranking 11th.
In the cryptocurrency field, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng continued to be the richest man in the cryptocurrency field with a wealth of 160 billion yuan. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong's wealth increased by 72% to 80 billion yuan, and MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor's wealth increased nearly three times to 65 billion yuan.
The list also shows that entrepreneurs in the fields of AI, asset management, entertainment and cryptocurrency performed strongly, while luxury goods, telecommunications and Chinese real estate performed poorly. In the field of AI, Liang Wenfeng of Hangzhou DeepSeek and Sam Altman of OpenAI made their first appearance on the list with RMB 33 billion and RMB 13 billion respectively. In addition, Zhang Yiming of ByteDance became China's richest man with RMB 435 billion, surpassing "bottled water king" Zhong Shanshan.
