Want Want Group (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) remains the richest man in Taiwan, with a fortune of US$10 billion, according to the Hurun Report Global Rich List 2015, released yesterday.
The ranking of US dollar billionaires around the world is compiled by Chinese magazine Hurun Report and sponsored by Chinese luxury home builder Star River Property.
A total of 48 Taiwanese are included on this year’s list, including former vice president Lien Chan (連戰), who has a fortune of US$6.1 billion.
Lien is the first Taiwanese politician to be included on the list, Hurun Report said.
Among ethnic Chinese, the richest person is Li Ka-shing (李嘉誠), chairman of Hong Kong’s Cheung Kong Holdings (長江實業), who has a fortune of US$32 billion.
In China, a Chinese solar energy tycoon has replaced e-commerce giant Alibaba’s (阿里巴巴) founder Jack Ma (馬雲) as the country’s richest person with a fortune of US$26 billion, the report showed.
Li Hejun (李河君), founder and chairman of Beijing-based Hanergy, saw his wealth nearly triple from a year ago, according to the Hurun Report’s Global Rich List 2015.
He is now the wealthiest person in China and his global ranking climbed 108 notches to No. 28, according to the list.
Ma claimed the title in mainland China last year after Alibaba completed the world’s biggest initial public offering with its US$25 billion listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September last year. He dropped to third place in the country with a fortune of US$24.5 billion, it said.
Ma was overtaken by Li and property baron Wang Jianlin (王健林), owner of the sprawling Dalian Wanda Group (大連萬達集團) whose net worth was estimated at US$25 billion, the report said.
Li’s Hanergy Holding Group Ltd was established in 1994 and spans the hydropower, wind power and solar energy industries, according to the company’s Web site.
Bill Gates, co-founder of US technology giant Microsoft, remained the world’s richest person on the Hurun global list with a net worth of US$85 billion. He was followed by Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim (US$83 billion) and US investment guru Warren Buffett (US$76 billion), the luxury magazine publisher said.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is ranked seventh with a fortune of US$44 billion.
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