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Readers love thinking about wealth, matching the money to the personal histories of people they do not know and will never meet.
The obvious unspoken questions are "Are they beautiful? What did they sacrifice to get on the list?
Meanwhile, the global rich have lost their reticence, if they ever had such a thing. What use is wealth if you cannot flaunt it? Sales of luxury goods are booming all over the world.
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Hence the extraordinary boom in luxury watches, wealth you can wear on your wrist and flourish to others whenever you need to know the time. The new breed of Chinese private entrepreneurs is in a bit of a bind when it comes to proclaiming their wealth. But in a controlling state such as China, they can never be sure that flaunting their wealth will not attract the attention of the authorities, nervous about private power though its development has been one of the key things propelling the Chinese economy over the past 30 years.
Australians call it the "tall poppy syndrome", the way that successful people are pulled back down to earth by jealousy or official action, often from the tax man. It must have changed by now, but for some recent years in China the most popular car for the new rich was the American Buick, a big car but not a flashy brand; a defensive stance about showing your wealth.
A qualified chartered accountant with a degree in Chinese and Japanese, Rupert Hoogewerf launched his list of China's richest people by his own estimation in That has grown into Hurun Report , a publishing empire which includes lots of China lists and magazines. It gives some fascinating insights into China's rapid business changes, and the emergence of a new entrepreneurial elite. Like BC Forbes, it is quite a good idea to get your name on the front of the magazine, and to use it to make a small fortune out of other people's great big fortunes.
Or download the programme podcast. Image caption Rupert Hoogewerf has taken the notion of wealth ranking to the Chinese The new Forbes list of the world's richest people shows that there are more than 1, billionaires across the globe.
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