On March 5, Hurun Research Institute released the "2026 Hurun Global Rich List". The deadline for wealth calculation is January 15, 2026. This is the 15th consecutive year that Hurun Research Institute has released the "Global Rich List". Driven by the soaring value of SpaceX and Tesla, 54-year-old Elon Musk became the world's richest man for the fifth time in six years, with wealth reaching 5.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 89%, or 2.6 trillion yuan, becoming the first entrepreneur in history with a wealth of more than 700 billion US dollars.
Amazon's 62-year-old Jeff Bezos ranked second with a wealth of 2.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 13%, or 240 billion yuan.
NVIDIA's Huang Jen-Hsun's wealth reached 1.2 trillion yuan, an increase of 34%, making him one of the top ten.
41-year-old Mark Zuckerberg fell out of the top three, ranking sixth with a wealth of 1.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 2%.
The top 100 Hurun Global Rich List 2026 are as follows:
In terms of Chinese entrepreneurs, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming once again became the richest man in China, with his wealth reaching 550 billion yuan; Zhong Suisui ranked second with 515 billion yuan, and Ma Huateng ranked third with 465 billion yuan.
It is reported that the number of billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the world has exceeded the 4,000 mark for the first time. There are 4,020 billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the world, an increase of 578 from last year, setting a new world record. Two new billion-dollar entrepreneurs were born every day in the past year. 726 new people are on the list, 318 of whom are from China.
At the same time, China returned to the first place in the world, leading the world with 1,110 billion-dollar entrepreneurs, an increase of 287, and the United States ranked second with 1,000 entrepreneurs, an increase of 130.
Among them, 114 billion-dollar entrepreneurs are from AI companies, and 46 of them are new to the list, making AI the largest source of creating new billion-dollar entrepreneurs.