2025 Hurun Global Rich List: Musk ranked the richest man in the world for the rest of the time, and Zhao Changpeng continued to rank as the richest man in the crypto field with a wealth of 160 billion yuan

PANews reported on March 27 that Hurun Research Institute released the "2025 Hurun Global Rich List", showing that the number of billion-dollar entrepreneurs worldwide has increased to 3,442, a record high, an increase of 163 from last year. The United States ranks first with 870 billion-dollar entrepreneurs, while China ranks second with 823.

53-year-old Elon Musk ranked the world's richest man with a fortune of 3.07 trillion yuan, with a wealth increase of 82%, mainly due to the soaring Tesla stock price. Amazon's Jeff Bezos ranked second with 1.94 trillion yuan, while Meta's Mark Zuckerberg ranked first in 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 continues to rank as the richest man in the cryptocurrency field with a wealth of RMB 160 billion. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong's wealth grew 72% to 80 billion yuan, while MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor's wealth nearly tripled to 65 billion yuan.

The list also shows that entrepreneurs in AI, asset management, entertainment and cryptocurrency sectors performed strongly, while luxury goods, telecommunications and China’s real estate sectors performed poorly. In the field of AI, Liang Wenfeng of Hangzhou DeepSeek and Sam Altman of OpenAI were on the list for the first time with RMB 33 billion and RMB 13 billion respectively. In addition, byteDance's Zhang Yiming became China's richest man with RMB 435 billion, surpassing Zhong Shanshan, the "bottled water king".