Yang Xing once again conquered the audience at the World Congress. Several products he personally recommended received widespread attention, which not only brought the stock prices of his subordinate companies to gain the favor of investors, but also caused his personal wealth to grow sharply. The top Asian rich people have traditionally never liked to show off their wealth. The Confucian educational philosophy of "the wood is in the forest, and the wind will destroy it" is almost engraved in the process of every rich man's making a fortune.

Most East Asian rich people, including India, do not like to deal with the media. Chasing the extremely luxurious and wealthy life of European and American rich people is only a small number of domestic nouveau riche who lacks background. In fact, after their wealth exceeds a certain threshold, they will almost always take the low-key route and make a fortune in silence.

This is particularly obvious in the older generation of wealthy people who are on the same list of Hong Kong rich people as Yang Xing. Even if their companies are listed companies, many people only need a qualified accountant to be considered a rough idea. However, the company's shares are only part of their wealth, and they generally hide a lot of wealth in other fields, which is the so-called "crawling rabbit three holes".

Therefore, although the world's most authoritative American magazine Forbes will publish the Hong Kong rich list every year, Hong Kong locals just think it's a joke. No one will take the rankings too seriously. They all believe that there are many "invisible rich people" who have not been selected. Li Ka-shing, who has been the richest man in Hong Kong and Asia for many years, has made public speeches many times, believing that his property is not the best among Chinese people, and that many people are actually richer than him. In addition to being self-worthy, there are indeed many real elements.

But the American Forbes magazine is not a rookie to fool. In 1917, the 37-year-old Scottish journalist b.c. Forbes** founded the first magazine in the United States to purely report business news. It is different from most of his peers who like to pile up numbers and play with inconspicuous professional terms to conduct business reporting. He insists on paying attention to people who control businesses, and has always used the slogan of "focusing on practices and practitioners" to advocate entrepreneurial spirit and innovative consciousness.

Therefore, in 1984, when Forbes magazine launched the first issue of the Forbes Rich List, it received a warm response around the world. Now, the annual Forbes Global Rich List has become a topic of widespread discussion around the world every time it is launched. Forbes magazine, which tastes the sweetness, has successively launched the "Celebrity List" and the world's "Top Luxury Goods" list, both of which have become authoritative lists in this field.

In order to protect the authority of the Forbes Rich List, Forbes magazine will provide elites every year to carefully investigate and verify the wealth of each rich man on the list, even if it cannot be done well, it requires that there should not be too much error before it dares to publish it. Otherwise, even if there are several wrong mistakes over the past few decades, with the strength of those rich men, it will be enough to make Forbes magazine bankrupt, and the reputation of the Forbes Rich List has long been ruined.

This time, Forbes magazine focused its target on Yang Xing, the Hong Kong upstart. Although Yang Xing has long been among the top few Hong Kong rich lists they compiled, they recently discovered that they still underestimated the wealth of this young man who became a billionaire at the age of 30. For example, Yang Xing's private fund "Star Fund", which was not paid much attention to before, was in the domestic flood in 1998. After donating more than 1 billion US dollars, it stopped. It only appeared a few times during many major natural disasters at home and abroad. Most people regard it as an ordinary charity fund.

However, in the recent crisis and the establishment of the "Star Canton" Grand Prize Fund, everyone saw the amazing strength of Star Canton behind the donation activities in the Mainland and Hong Kong, which finally attracted the attention of Forbes. When establishing the "Star Canton" Grand Prize Fund, the editors of the "Forbes Rich List" carefully estimated the capital amount of Star Canton, which is the parent fund, and were surprised to find that the fund has at least US$10 billion of funds to be dispatched, which is just Yang Xing's family fund!

Based on this situation, investigators also inferred that they have a relationship with Yang Xing, hidden in Andorra, Cayman Islands, Bermuda Islands, and other tax havens. The various investment funds and secret accounts and other funds in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands are definitely not a small amount. Recently, revolutionary technologies and products such as the phone and star computing have been launched continuously. This year, the overall stock price of Zhongxing Group's companies has been rising steadily. As Chairman Dong, Yang Xing's wealth has increased twice as much. With several families together, Yang Xing's property must be calculated again.

After re-verification and calculation, Forbes magazine broke the usual list of the official rich list that was launched in March of the following year, and specially issued the year-end special issue in advance. It evaluated Yang Xing's business empire and his investments and fixed assets all over the world, and gave a relatively accurate number - US$32 billion! As soon as the news was announced, it immediately attracted many different opinions. You should know that on the previous year's rich list, Yang Xing's property was only evaluated as about US$15 billion, ranking fourth among Hong Kong rich people under Li Ka-shing. Now it seems that Yang Xing had hidden at least half of his wealth at that time. No wonder Prime Minister Wen Rengui asked him whether he was the richest man in China, but Yang Xing did not deny it.

Now it seems that he still didn't talk about his real wealth at that time. Although the Forbes Rich List mainly depends on the published information, Yang Xing's wealth increased by nearly $20 billion in just one year, which is really incredible. Forbes magazine does not hide the fact that the situation on the world Rich List was occupied by American rich people for a long time also had major changes due to Yang Xing's sudden emergence. Bill Gates and Buffett, who ranked first and second last year, were ranked first and second.

The price was only around 40 billion US dollars at this time. The third-fourth place in Germany's Abbott brothers and Saudi Ben Taral Prince only had a fortune of more than 20 billion US dollars. Yang Xing suddenly passed them and jumped directly to the third place in the world's rich list. Not only did he firmly ranked first among Chinese rich people, but he also became the richest man outside Asia and the United States. He also reduced the threshold age for joining the 10 billionaires club to under 30 years old. Even if it is not the last one, it is an unprecedented miracle.

What foreigners don’t understand most is that Yang Xing has achieved such achievements in mainland China, which has always been regarded as imperfect business regulations and unprotected personal wealth. Although he often regards himself as a Hong Kong rich man, most of his companies’ manufacturing bases are in the mainland. The mainland market has always been the main source of profits that can compete with the group’s American market. In the eyes of most people, Zhongxing Group is an undeniable Chinese company. This is the first time that Chinese people have issued such a strong challenge in the proudest business field in the West. Yang Xing hides his strength and hides his strength. With the exposure of wealth, he has to stand in the center of the spotlight again.

Faced with the media interview requests that came like a tide, Yang Xing was very upset and was not too concerned about the information sent by Lin Jiana to remind him to strengthen his vigilance. Since he had a nightmare last time, Lin Jiana and others started investigating, and found some clues, but lacked substantial evidence. This information reminded Yang Xing that there have been frequent changes in the underground world recently. Several of the most dangerous and elusive killer organizations seem to have received large orders recently. Because the goal is unknown, Lin Jiana cannot give more suggestions, so she can only remind Yang Xing to be more careful.

Yang Xing believed that his protection was extremely strong. He was always by his side now, with a large number of bodyguards of different nationalities, most of whom were veterans, and his protection level was catching up with some small country leaders. He could not be in a panic and full of soldiers. But he could not take this threat seriously. Yang Xing considered that he had only stayed in Hong Kong recently, and this place was finally his own territory. It should not be very dangerous. Soon he was distracted by several major events that happened in a row.

At the end of 2004 and early 2005, the avian flu made a comeback. After the concentrated outbreak in Vietnam, it was infected with South Korea, Thailand and other places. The mainland and Hong Kong, which had experience in fighting avian flu at the beginning of the year, were on high alert for this. Finally, there was no major crisis again. This prompted the plan for the Chinese Medicine Port to speed up, and Wang Yunqi made another medical expense.

But the next disaster occurred during the Christmas holiday that celebrated the whole world. On December 26, around 9 o'clock in the morning in Hong Kong, the bustling streets suddenly felt a clear shaking. People's first reaction was that an earthquake occurred in Hong Kong? However, the convenient media quickly asked people to find the source. Almost all media were broadcasting an emergency message, that was, a major earthquake occurred under the seabed north of Sumatra, Indonesia, and brought about an unprecedented tsunami!

There are earthquakes around the world almost every moment, most of which are almost impossible to detect. Only a very small number of people can feel the power of nature with the collapse of the sky and the earth. Fortunately, many of the highest magnitude earthquakes occur in the sea, but the magnitude of the Indonesian seabed earthquake this time is too high. The data measured by Hong Kong, the mainland and the United States are above 9 magnitude, making it the second largest magnitude recorded in history, second only to the Chilean earthquake in 1960. And the focal source is very close to the seabed, which brings a more dangerous secondary disaster - the tsunami.

Tsunami is a kind of bad waves on the sea surface caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, underwater collapses and landslides, and accompanied by a loud natural phenomenon. The wavelength of the tsunami is larger than the maximum depth of the ocean, and it is unblocked to propagate near the seabed. No matter what the depth of the ocean is, the waves can spread over. Its propagation speed in the ocean is about 500 to 1,000 kilometers per hour, and the distance between the two adjacent waves may be as high as 500 to 650 kilometers. The waves caused by its wave movement can reach dozens of meters high and form a very harmful "water wall". It is a wave with strong destructive power and is the most violent natural force on the earth. (To be continued...)
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