The severe disaster caused by the New Coronavirus (CCP virus) epidemic around the world has not stopped the wealthy Chinese from amassing wealth. In Forbes magazine’s latest wealth ranking for 2021, China snagged several highlights: Beijing became the world’s richest city in terms of the number of wealthy people, Beijing became the city with the largest increase in wealthy people, and China became the country with the largest increase in wealthy people. However, this also makes the already very serious problem of polarization between rich and poor even more prominent.
The latest Forbes list of the top 10 richest cities in the world is Beijing, New York, Hong Kong, Moscow, Shenzhen, Shanghai, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, and Hangzhou. Five of these cities are Chinese, with Beijing topping the list, pushing New York, which has been in this position for seven years, to the back of the pack.
The only two American cities among this ranking are New York and San Francisco, and the United Kingdom, Russia and India all occupy only one position.
Beijing added 33 new billionaires last year, increasing its total to 100, surpassing New York’s 99.
A total of 2,755 billionaires were selected for the Forbes Wealth Rankings, 660 more than the previous year. Chinese billionaires accounted for 40 percent of the total number of people selected.
Forbes magazine said the increase in the number of Chinese billionaires was due to three factors: China’s early containment of the new coronavirus outbreak, the growth of technology companies and the rebound of Western stock markets.
Another factor in China’s surge was that Forbes magazine added Hong Kong and Macau to China’s list of billionaires, adding 210 to the list.
While China’s wealth is rapidly concentrating among the rich, the gap between the rich and the poor is also growing. In February, Xi Jinping announced that China’s “war on poverty” had been won, with 98.99 million rural poor people lifted out of poverty, creating a “miracle on earth”. However, all this has not changed the basic situation that the majority of China’s population is still living a very difficult life.
Last May, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang revealed at a meeting of the National People’s Congress that 600 million people in China have a monthly income of only 1,000 yuan, and more than 900 million people have a monthly income of no more than 2,000 yuan. The so-called middle class, which earns between 2,000 and 5,000 yuan a month nationwide, is only 360 million people, accounting for less than 40 percent of the total population of 1.4 billion.
Observers point out that nearly one billion people earn less than 2,000 yuan a month, which means something in the current Chinese urban living environment, I’m afraid only the Chinese people know best. Recently, the tragic death of a bus driver, Jin Deqiang, who drank pesticide and committed suicide after being fined 2,000 RMB, has become a hot topic of public opinion in China.
Jin Deqiang’s wife said online that Jin Deqiang was a bus driver who had been in the transportation industry for 10 years and was the one who supported a family of six (his elderly mother, wife and three children). Many netizens believe that Jin Deqiang chose to commit suicide for a fine of 2,000 yuan, not worth it. But his wife said that he earns about 200-400 yuan a day, this time just out of the car was fined 2000, how can he accept it?
However, Forbes magazine said that in terms of the number of net assets owned by the rich in a city, New York is still the world’s first, the scale of its wealth of $ 80 billion.
In this year’s Forbes magazine’s personal wealth ranking list the United States still occupies an absolute advantage, the top ten Americans accounted for eight positions, the other two positions were divided between France and India.
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