The word rich man only slowly became popular after the reform and opening up.

Among them, the first to be given this title are foreign businessmen who have invested in the mainland after the policy of opening up, and Hong Kong businessmen are a representative group among them.

Therefore, the term "Hong Kong boss" once became synonymous with the wealthy class.

However, as time progressed to 2004, the rich were no longer the proper nouns of Hong Kong people, and the rapid development of various industries in the mainland allowed some people who seized the opportunity to accumulate a net worth unimaginable to ordinary people in a short period of time.

In the eyes of many people in the mainland, this is really unimaginable!

You must know that the time is pushed forward by 20 years, and at that time, 10,000 households can already be called rich people. And now, just a generation has grown up, and the real rich have calculated their net worth in hundreds of millions.

According to the latest Hurun Report launched in 2004:

Huang Guangyu, who ranks first on the 100 richest list, has a net worth of 10.5 billion, and his industry is Gome electrical appliances and real estate.

ranked second, Chen Tianqiao, worth 8.8 billion, industry: online games.

And Gu Heng is also on the list this time, and he is still in the top ten, ranking seventh with a net worth of 5.8 billion.

It is worth mentioning that the previous one, ranked sixth, is a rich man surnamed Li, industry: direct sales of health care products.

was overturned to the ground by a health care product seller, Gu Heng had a faint sadness, and there was a sentence in his heart that he didn't know whether to talk about it or not.

In fact, at the beginning, when Hurun asked for an interview and said that this would be a better estimate of his net worth, he actually refused.

Although his family history is very innocent, unlike some invisible rich people who are not on the list, he can't stand scrutiny, but he doesn't want to appear too high-profile, after all, in this world, there are never a few people who want to get something for nothing.

On the other hand, he feels that today's so-called rich list is really not golden, and it seems too Lo.

Huang Guangyu relied on selling electrical appliances to sell a richest man.

A "Legend" directly created a listed company and almost made Chen Tianqiao unlock the title of the richest man in China.

These achievements that can only be unlocked in today's environment, can you believe them in a decade or so?

What is even more unbelievable is that the third richest person is involved in the aviation, real estate and telecommunications industries. Engaged in these high-end industries but overturned by a game seller and a consumer appliance, can you believe it?

Whether you believe it or not, Gu Heng, who owns Hengchuang anyway, was overturned by a person who sold health care products on the list of the richest people this time.

After him, Netease Ding Lei is worth 5 billion, alongside the wife of Tang Seng and Ms. Chen, who made a fortune in Hong Kong and Taiwan by reselling antique furniture.

A wealthy man is engaged in an industry without too much technical content, and he quickly appeared on the list, which is not only the particularity given by the times, but also the reason why Gu Heng thinks that today's rich list has no gold content.

More than 10 years later, the real rich list is at the top, which one is not a big name in a certain field, and which of their companies does not hold one or two core competitive elements that other companies cannot replace at all?

Not to mention the three giants of BAT, other companies such as SF's logistics, Xiaomi's mobile phone manufacturing and sales, and Midea family's air conditioning manufacturing and sales all rely on their own core competitiveness to stand out from many competitors and not be shaken easily, which can be regarded as a truly gold-rich enterprise.

As for the rich people on the list today, although they can also be called masterpieces, their eyes are only locked on the word "profit-seeking", the company lacks the core competitiveness that can still stand in the next ten or twenty years, if it is not transformed as soon as possible, it is destined to become the protagonist of the next era.

It was also for these reasons that Gu Heng refused Hurun's interview.

also refused to be interviewed, and Hurun, who lacked sufficient information and data, estimated his net worth of about 5.5 billion according to Hengchuang's valuation, and taking into account Hengchuang's liabilities and distributed shares!

As a result, it is better to sell health care products than to do the Internet, which has become an after-dinner topic for the bigwigs in the Internet field in the future.

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To get back to the point, with the publication of the latest "Hurun Report", there was a wave of crazy heated discussions on the Internet.

Then it radiated to reality, and first some small newspapers reported it in order to attract attention. Then, after measuring, some local television stations thought that now was the era of "economic leadership", and began to report on it, so as to support the argument that "the current domestic economic situation is very good".

But no, now that billionaires have appeared in a pile, and there are tens of billionaires, isn't the situation very good?

As for what the audience really cares about, whether it is the economic situation or the net worth of the rich, it is a matter of opinion.

In fact, the newspapers and TV stations that reported the news have all created sales miracles and ratings miracles in recent times.

Just like the general public's curiosity about celebrities, everyone's net worth of the rich is also a topic of extreme interest, and even its audience is even wider. After all, those who are over thirty or forty years old nowadays generally have no star-chasing enthusiasm, but they are interested in learning a thing or two about the net worth of the rich.

This issue of the "Hurun Report" can have such an influence, which its founder never expected.

In the past, the "Rich List" was launched in the form of a magazine, but the price of a magazine was very expensive, and it was generally purchased by the social elite, and the audience was relatively limited, so it naturally could not generate much topic.

But this time, Hurun found a different way, opened an account on Renren.com, and announced the 2004 100 richest list, which was actually retweeted by hundreds of thousands in just two or three days, and even radiated to offline media organizations for a time, causing heated discussions among the whole people.

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The launch of the Hurun Report has made everyone's heated discussion about "rich" on the Internet another phenomenon-level topic.

There are heated discussions, some questioning, some slandering, and some scolding.

The hot discussion is mainly about the net worth of those on the list, their companies and businesses, how they make so much money.

Those who question and slander are generally a little sour in their hearts: they are all shoulders on top of their heads, why can they make so much money? There must be dirty deals.

There are never a few people who do not work hard, but are jealous of the success of others, so the questioning and slanderous remarks once won a lot of supporters, and then launched various attacks on this, some demanded that the rich on the list disclose their financial details, and some asked the government to investigate those on the list......

There are detractors, and naturally there are also people who admire and support those self-made tycoons, so the two sides started a polemic.

Among them, there is also a kind of controversy that arises not between supporters and detractors, but between regions.

The reason was a student from Hong Kong Province who came to study in the mainland, and he posted a message.

With a net worth of 10 billion yuan, there are many people in Hong Kong Province, such as Li Chaoren, who is worth more than 100 billion yuan, was once rated as the richest Chinese in the world, and even entered the top 20 of the world's Forbes list, and I have not seen anyone in Hong Kong Province make a fuss about this.

As soon as this statement came out, although it also aroused the support of a small number of people, it was then speechless that was refuted in a series of verbal criticisms.

A scholar of history replied: "The rich people of Hong Kong Province are very remarkable? Push back a few decades, in the early 20 th century, do you know that the rich businessmen in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and other places call Hong Kong people what kind of people are?"

The reply of the economics student: "To tell the truth, Hong Kong Province has actually had more decades of development time before it has the title of the Asian Tigers." Given the current development situation in the mainland, in a short period of 20 or 30 years, and at most in 50 years, there will definitely be many provinces in the mainland whose economic aggregate will surpass that of Hong Kong Province, and there will also be billionaires whose wealth will match or even surpass that of Li Chaoren. ”

A scholar replied: "I bet that the future of Hong Kong Province, if it is not backed by the demographic dividend of the mainland, the overall economic form will be like the current Hong Kong Province movie, stagnation, or even retreat!"

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As for the heated discussion on the Internet, Renren has implemented a model of "freedom of public opinion" as a whole, in addition to banning those irresponsible malicious slanderers, or those who deliberately cause contradictions and disputes between the two places.

Even, some Hengchuang employees are still calling for themselves frantically on the Internet.

"The seventh on the list of the richest people in the mainland, my boss, I just ask you if you are afraid!"

I don't know who first posted this news on Renren.com, and then it circulated wildly in the personal tag bar of Renren and YY voice.

Then, some employees of Gome and Shengda and other rich people on the list, as well as Renren and YY voice accounts, also competed to imitate them.

So, in this way, the heated discussion caused by the "Rich List" has endured on the Internet for a long time in December.

This scene has once again made many people see the speed of the spread of information on the Internet, and it has also quietly raised the influence of Renren to a new level.

The most intuitive impact is that those rich people who are on the list and are in the center of public opinion, the performance of their companies has increased significantly after the list is published.

After figuring out the truth, one by one they began to contact the human network, intending to place advertisements.