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Can you hear me? I’m a billionaire… Those who turned the pandemic crisis into money

Gold and dollar. May everyone be rich in the new year. [중앙포토]

– Zhong Shan Shan, Zeng Wi-chin, Len Blabatnik-.

They are unfamiliar figures, but they are billionaires who have been ranked in the top 10 most earned this year by Forbes. The crisis of 2020, when all humans were tested due to the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) pandemic, was also an opportunity for them.

Here are some of the people who quietly made their name on Forbes’ recently unveiled’Top 10 Asset Growth in 2020′. Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk ($10 billion), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos (4th place, $4.5 billion), and Son Jeong-eui (孫政義/Masayoshi Son, $4 billion), Japan’s SoftBang Group The chairman (6th place) was excluded. Bezos is the first in the world rankings, Bernard Arno Louis Vuitton, chairman of Moe Hennessy (LVMH), and Musk in third place.

A man who turned water into money

  President of Zhongshan Shan Nongfu Shanquan. [CNN 캡처]

President of Zhongshan Shan Nongfu Shanquan. [CNN 캡처]

– Zhong Shan Shan (66) turned water into money and became rich. The bottled water company he founded, Nongfushanquan (Nongpu Spring) is called the’Chinese version of Samdasoo’. He turned water into money and became rich. Zhongshan Shan’s progress symbolizes the strength of the Chinese domestic market with a population of 1.4 billion.

The company’s opening price, which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in September, surged 85.1% to HK$39.8 (about 5600 won), and its market capitalization was close to HK$440 billion (about 66 trillion won). Chairman Jong holds 84.4% of the stock. According to Forbes, Chairman Jong earned an additional $7.1 billion this year, with total assets of $69.9 billion (about 77.64 trillion won).

Chairman Jong quickly jumped to the number 1 mark in China. It is in contrast to Ma Yun’s founder of Alibaba’s ugly hair in China’s financial authorities, and the Ant Group’s IPO is suspended indefinitely and a struggling march. In China, there is a saying that’the age of the Ma’s has passed and the age of the Zhong’ has come.

Sell ​​medicine, rich… The world of self-made couples

Sun Piaoyang, Chairman of Hengrui Medicine. [포브스 캡처]

Sun Piaoyang, Chairman of Hengrui Medicine. [포브스 캡처]

– According to Forbes, one of the top earners in the world this year was Sun Piao Yang (62). He is the CEO of Hengrui Pharmaceutical, a pharmaceutical company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China. His wife, Zhong Hui Juan, is also a corporate CEO and is in charge of Hansun Pharmaceutical, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

These couples are typical self-made figures, from ordinary pharmaceutical factory managers to the development of new drugs, and have risen to the ranks of billionaires. The 2020 pandemic brought luck, especially for her husband, Chairman Sun, and earned an additional $4 billion this year alone, raising total assets to $38.9 billion.

China’s two robins take over world wealth

Baidu founder Li Yanhong is surrounded by reporters. [로이터=연합뉴스]

Baidu founder Li Yanhong is surrounded by reporters. [로이터=연합뉴스]

– Two’Robins’ appear in Forbes’ list of billionaires who made a lot of money this year. Both are Chinese. The first robin is Robin Lee, the chairman of Baidu, Li Yanhong (李彦宏). Another robin is Robin Zeng, or Zeng Wi-chin, chairman of CATL. Both were born in 1968, or 52 years old.

Chairman Lee stood out with Baidu, China’s leading search engine, and Chairman Zeng stood out with CATL, a Chinese battery company. According to Forbes, Chairman Lee earned an additional $2.2 billion this year to $13.8 billion, and Zeng earned an additional $2 billion, becoming a rich man of $25.5 billion.

Russian rich man became American

Len Blabatnik. [포브스 캡처]

Len Blabatnik. [포브스 캡처]

China’s advancement is remarkable in the Forbes asset growth list. Five out of ten are Chinese and four are American. One of the Americans, Ren Blabatnik, president of Warner Music, is awkward to be an American. Born in Ukraine, Oligarhi, Russia, came to the United States to buy Warner Music and deal with real estate to acquire US citizenship.

If you search for the name of Chairman Blabatnik, you will find pictures taken with pop stars like Edshran, but in fact he became a self-made rich man in his twenties due to the oil business. The Financial Times (FT) described him as “Oligarhi, who makes money with Russian crude oil and enjoys the world of rock and roll.” He earned an additional $1.8 billion this year, resulting in a total asset value of $31 billion.

Reporter Jeon Sujin [email protected]



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