Young? tycoons? top? Forbes'? China? list


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The top ten businesspeople on China's richest-person list.
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A 37-year-old appliance merchant topped a list of China's richest businesspeople released Thursday by the business magazine Forbes, leading a group of young entrepreneurs in China. Wong Kwong-yu, founder of Gome Appliances, saw his wealth expand to $2.3 billion, according to Forbes.

One quarter of those on this year's list are under age 40, reflecting the fact that most of China's fortunes have been made in the past decade as retail, Internet and real estate companies sprang up to serve a booming consumer market.

"China's richest are a lot younger than America's richest," said Russell Flannery, Forbes' Shanghai bureau chief, at a news conference.

No. 2 on the list was property developer Xu Rongmao, with a fortune of $2.1 billion, followed by Larry Yung, chairman of conglomerate Citic Pacific, with $2 billion. Yung, also known as Rong Zhijian, was No. 1 last year.

The richest woman was No. 5 Zhang Yin, who built a paper-recycling business into Nine Dragons Paper Co., China's biggest maker of paperboard for packaging, at $1.5 billion.

Zhang was No. 1 on a competing list of China's richest released Oct. 11 by journalist Rupert Hoogewerf.

Flannery said Forbes calculated Zhang's wealth separately from the stakes that her husband and brother own in Nine Dragons. If their holdings were added together, the family would be No. 1 on the Forbes list.

Forbes noted that the average age of businesspeople on its China list was 46.5, compared with 65.7 for the comparable US list.

China's top 40 richest include six women, compared with seven in the US top 40, but the Chinese include self-made millionaires such as Zhang, while the American women inherited their wealth, Forbes said.

詞匯：
entrepreneur: n. <法>企業(yè)家, 主辦人
spring up : 跳起來；崛起
booming: adj. 急速發(fā)展的
self-made? : 自力更生的


本周四，《福布斯》雜志公布了“福布斯2006中國(guó)富豪榜”，家用電器零售商、“國(guó)美電器”創(chuàng)始人、37歲的黃光裕以23億美元的總資產(chǎn)榮登榜首，成為中國(guó)一批年輕企業(yè)家的領(lǐng)軍人物。

在今年的福布斯富豪榜上，有四分之一的入選者年齡不到40歲，這說明在過去十年中，隨著中國(guó)零售業(yè)、互聯(lián)網(wǎng)業(yè)及房地產(chǎn)業(yè)的異軍突起，一批新貴應(yīng)運(yùn)而生。

福布斯上海分社社長(zhǎng)范魯賢在一個(gè)新聞發(fā)布會(huì)上說：“中國(guó)的富豪比美國(guó)的富豪年輕得多?！?

地產(chǎn)大亨許榮茂以21億美元的個(gè)人財(cái)富名列富豪榜第二位，而去年的首富、中信泰富集團(tuán)總裁榮智健今年以20億美元的資產(chǎn)排名第三。

于上月11日問鼎“胡潤(rùn)百富榜”的中國(guó)女首富、“廢紙大王”張茵以15億美元的個(gè)人資產(chǎn)名列福布斯榜第五，她創(chuàng)建的玖龍紙業(yè)是目前國(guó)內(nèi)最大的包裝紙生產(chǎn)商。

范魯賢說，《福布斯》在計(jì)算張茵的資產(chǎn)總額時(shí)，沒有將她丈夫和弟弟在玖龍紙業(yè)的資產(chǎn)算在內(nèi)。如果全部加在一起，張茵的家族將成為今年福布斯榜的首富。

《福布斯》雜志指出，福布斯中國(guó)富豪榜上的富商平均年齡為46.5歲，而美國(guó)榜上富豪的平均年齡為65.7歲。

《福布斯》提到，福布斯中國(guó)富豪榜前40名中有六位女性，而美國(guó)有七位。但中國(guó)有像張茵這樣靠創(chuàng)業(yè)起家的女富豪，而美國(guó)則主要是一些繼承家族財(cái)產(chǎn)的女富豪。
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