CRI听力:Beijing Replaces New York as Billionaire Capital of the World

This year's Hurun Global Rich List shows Beijing has replaced New York as the billionaire capital of the world.

Hurun noted that out of a record 2,188 billionaires in 68 countries and regions, China has 568 places on the list, with a hundred of them based in the capital.

The addition of 90 wealthy Chinese to the list this year also means China overtook the US in the total number of ultra rich for the first time.

Leading the Chinese billionaires is Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Dalian Wanda Group, China's largest real estate developer and the world's largest movie theater operator.

Topping the list are Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and renowned investor Warren Buffett, with 80 billion and 68 billion US dollars, respectively.

The combined wealth of the billionaires' club expanded by 9 percent to 7.3 trillion US dollars, higher than the GDP of Germany and the UK put together.

China's richest individuals contributed 1.4 trillion US dollars of the total, close to the GDP of Australia.

For more on this, CRI's Ding Heng earlier had a chance to speak to Hu Run (Rupert Hoogewerf), the publisher of the Hurun Report.