Chapter 2068 The Richest Man in Forbes! !

In the past few days, Forbes magazine suddenly held a press conference, announcing that starting from this year, it will re-create the world's richest list every year.

And this year's has already been done.

They selected a total of 100 rich people from all over the world, and gave a ranking according to the published wealth standards.

As soon as this news came out, the whole world was a little excited.

In the past, Forbes magazine was actually making a list of the richest people, but it was only for North America, and Canada was added at most, and the scope did not spread to the whole world.

Money is something that everyone loves. Seeing the rich list is like looking at the list of heroes in Huaguo in the past. It is a kind of fun to gossip, and even more fun to spy on other people's secrets.

People from various countries can even make a specific comparison. If the richest man appears in his own country, that is something worth showing off.

So, when Forbes magazine went on sale yesterday, first of all, the 1 million copies in North America were sold out.

Then the 500,000 volumes in Europe and South America were also sold out early.

These are already all of their inventory, and they thought they could be sold in two or three days, but they didn't expect to sell them so quickly.

As a result, they had no choice but to start the printing machine immediately, striving for an earlier replenishment.

Not to mention those who didn't buy it, those who got Forbes magazine opened the magazine immediately.

Because it is the first issue, Forbes magazine has made it very detailed, unlike the previous life, which basically arranged a list.

At most, at the back of the list, each person has a few lines of explanation.

This time, they wrote all the photos, information, asset division status, and future development potential of 100 rich people.

The whole volume of Forbes magazine has more than 300 pages, which can be regarded as very kind.

No wonder many people want to buy it, even if it is a collection, it is an excellent thing.

In this issue of Forbes magazine, there are two portraits, one on the left and one on the right.

On the left is Sam Walton, the founder and owner of Walmart.

The one on the right is much younger than him, only in his twenties, and he is also a Chinese.

Of course he is Yin Jun.

The focus of Forbes magazine this time is these two cover characters!

When you open the general narrative list, you will see that Sam Walton is ranked second, and the first is the other character on the cover, Yin Jun, who is only 23 years old.

Sam Walton is 67 years old this year. His youngest daughter is more than 10 years older than Yin Jun, and even his eldest grandson is almost 20 years old this year.

In other words, in terms of age, the grandsons of Yin Jun and Sam Walton are of the same generation.

But measured by wealth, he ranks above Sam Walton.

Since it went public a few years ago and gained a lot of funds, Wal-Mart has swept across the United States at a very fierce speed.

Wal-Mart Supermarket has deeply touched the hearts of consumers with its two characteristics of cheap and high quality, especially cheap products, so it has achieved great success.

In the past five years, Wal-Mart's average turnover growth rate has exceeded 20%, which is jaw-dropping.

So even Wal-Mart's stock continued to rise, which also caused the stock in Sam Walton's hands to skyrocket.

Now his shares are worth 23.3 billion U.S. dollars, making him the veritable richest man in the United States.

Forbes magazine also highly respected that, according to the current state of development, Wal-Mart will definitely become the largest supermarket chain in the United States.

As long as they complete their layout in the United States, Sam Walton's status as the richest man in the United States will definitely last for many years.

They even boldly predicted that the Wal-Mart stock held by Sam Walton could even be worth more than 100 billion US dollars!

I don't know if they want to use this astonishing figure to make everyone interested and discuss it, but this astronomical figure of 100 billion US dollars still makes most people's eyes widen.

Forbes' North American Rich List over the years has always been worth more than 150 million US dollars.

But the previous richest man was only about 20 billion US dollars.

It was Sam Walton's assets that broke through to 23.3 billion US dollars, which is already a very big progress.

Now Forbes says that his future wealth is likely to reach 100 billion US dollars! ?

Is this talking nonsense?

However, when they saw the wealth statistics and introduction of Yin Jun, who ranked No. 1, they suddenly felt that Forbes magazine's bragging about Sam Walton was nothing.

In May 1984 last year, Xiangjiang's "Kirin Daily" once rated Yin Jun as the richest man in the world, which also attracted widespread attention from all over the world at that time.

Many newspapers and magazines reprinted this news, as well as various statistics from "Kirin Daily".

Basically, everyone still recognizes it. In the past two years, many people directly called Yin Jun "the richest man in the world", which is also a matter of course.

It's just that "Kirin Daily" is just a Hong Kong newspaper after all, and has no authority in the western world. Therefore, many people, when calling Yin Jun "the richest man in the world", they are with a hint of ridicule.

In their view, there are simply too many people in small countries and places like this bragging about their wealth.

Every now and then, these rich people feel that they are the boss and the richest people in the world.

However, many of the assets of the rich are fictitious, or the value of the assets is secretly inflated.

For example, your company is only worth 1 billion US dollars, but if you want to say that it is worth 10 billion US dollars, isn't it up to you?

A few more companies like this, wouldn't it be tens of billions of dollars in assets?

So many people who don't read the reports of "Kirin Daily" think about the reason why Yin Jun is the richest man.

But Forbes magazine is different.

Forbes magazine, which has been founded for more than 70 years, is very famous in the western world.

Its main business is actually about economy and trade, and there are often many insightful articles and comments in it, and many European media often quote their words.

Over time, Forbes magazine has gained a lot of fame all over the world.

As the United States became more and more powerful, Forbes magazine also followed suit, and has since become a very authoritative existence.

It listed the world's richest man as Yin Jun with such fanfare, of course it has its own basis.

The data that has been discharged is not afraid of everyone to check.

The integrity of this kind of paper media is still very strong. They will not be like those online media 30 years later, just talking nonsense with their mouths open, and their words are all made up.

The wealth listed by Forbes magazine mainly for Yin Jun is his property outside the mainland.

In their opinion, those factories and land in mainland China are not very reliable - and this is also an important reason why many people do not agree with Yin Jun, the richest man in the world.

Let’s talk about Yin Jun’s property in Xiangjiang first.

He owns the world's largest cultural toy industry chain - a series of Kirin Culture companies.

Including Kylin Satellite TV, Kylin Daily, Kylin Weekly, Kylin Toy Factory, Kylin Game Company and Kylin Records.

One of the most important ones is naturally Kirin Weekly and its derived industrial chain.

Considering the comics industry, sales of peripheral products, etc., Forbes magazine quoted the average valuation of four investment banks and securities companies, and valued this series as super high-quality assets at 10 billion US dollars.

Don't think the valuation is too high.

Last year, the revenue of Kirin Weekly's comics and booklets reached 10 billion Hong Kong dollars a year.

What is even higher is the sales of peripheral toys, underwear, stationery, etc. of a series of best-selling comics such as "Transformers", "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", etc., bringing sales of more than 5 billion US dollars to Kirin Group Forehead.

With such high profits, the valuation of 10 billion US dollars is already very conservative.

But in fact, the most profitable one is Kirin Game Company.

With the decline of Atari Corporation, Kirin Game Company has captured the world's handheld electronic game market with its Game Boy handheld game console, and its total sales in 1985 exceeded 15 billion US dollars!

No matter how underestimated it is, the valuation of Kirin Game Company cannot be lower than 10 billion US dollars.

Then, to be more conservative, they added up the entire valuation of Kirin Culture and calculated 20 billion US dollars, which is really speechless.

As for the Lantau Island that Yin Jun spent a lot of money to develop, as well as Kirin Real Estate, Kirin Movies, etc., the valuation is 2 billion US dollars, which is not the main body of the Kirin Group.

There is also Kirin Communications Company, which now has its business all over Asia, and even Americans are using their mobile phones. For this part of the emerging industry, the valuation given by Forbes is very bold, and a valuation of 5 billion US dollars came .

At the same time, there are a few comments in it. If you look at the company with the greatest development potential in the future, it should be this Kirin Communications company. It is estimated that it is very likely to become the second Motorola Electronics company in the future, and it may not be worth more than 30 billion US dollars!

Therefore, the total assets of Xiangjiang Yinjun are calculated to be 27 billion US dollars.

Next is Yin Jun's Kirin Mining in Western Australia.

Two consecutive high-precision iron ore areas with more than 1 billion tons were discovered, and the conservative value is more than 50 billion US dollars.

Considering the huge investment in infrastructure such as road construction and port construction, and the fact that the price of iron ore is not high compared to the cost, it is not a bad treatment for Kirin to only value a wealth of 10 billion US dollars. mining.

Oh, by the way, Wankang Company is also regarded as a member of the Kirin Mining system, so it is not listed separately, it is included in the 10 billion US dollars.

Forbes is familiar with Yin Jun's assets in the United States.

They believe that Yin Junmei's assets are basically divided into two series.

The first is the Department of Entertainment Media.

Including ABC TV, Disney, United Artists Films, Sports and Entertainment News, ME Magazine, Vanity Fair Magazine, New York Unicorns and so on.

These are listed in different categories, and the valuation is another 13 billion US dollars.

The second one is about the Department of Electronic Technology.

Including Kylin Computer, Kylin Lab, Kylin Network, etc.

But this part is not very valuable. Even if Kirin Computer sold more than two million computers last year, the valuation is not high because they do not have any patents of their own.

The total value of several companies is about 5 billion US dollars, which is much lower than the original valuation of "Kirin Daily".

So the assets of the United States are 18 billion US dollars.

In addition to this, Yin Jun also has a separate type of asset, which is stock investment.

That is, the company in which Yin Jun holds shares.

For example, Nike, Apple, Microsoft, MTV, Heung Kong Electric, Cheung Kong Group, etc., most of these are listed companies, or the valuation is very clear.

After listing the specific figures, and then calculating, it is about 5 billion US dollars.

To sum up, Forbes magazine has come to a conclusion.

Mr. Yin Jun's assets are 60 billion US dollars, surpassing all the people in the world, and he is the richest man in the world!

This is what we Americans have seriously commented on, and it is definitely not written randomly by second- and third-rate small newspapers and magazines! !