Chinanews, Beijing, November 2 – The two-digit explosion of China's economic growth and the booming stock market have made a new group of wealthy Chinese. According to the latest top-400 wealthy Chinese list published by Forbes China, the total assets of the persons on the list have reached 280 billion dollars, while the figure last year was only 164 billion dollars.

 

The top-66 have a personal asset of at least one billion dollars each, while last year only the top-15 reached this level. China has become one of the countries with the most billionaires in the world.

 

Nearly all the persons on the list have gained their fortune via the capital market, and the status of their fortune is open to the general public, which will bring them new social responsibilities.

 

About 37% of the names on the list are new this year. Nine of the top-40 are also seen for the first time, including Yang Huiyan, the most wealthy Chinese this year.