The Hurun Research Institute released the 2018 Hurun Female Entrepreneur List today (16th). Yang Huiyan, the vice chairman of the board of directors of Country Garden, became the richest woman in China for the sixth time with a wealth of 150 billion (RMB, the same below, about SGD 29.8 billion).Wu Yajun, chairman of Longfor Real Estate, ranked second with 58.5 billion yuan, and Chen Lihua, chairman of Beijing Real Estate Queen Fuhua Group, ranked third with 50.5 billion yuan.
According to Sino-Singapore Jingwei, the list shows that real estate and manufacturing are the main sources of wealth for women entrepreneurs on the list, accounting for 27% and 17% of the list respectively, and the trend is on the rise.Hurun said: Compared with the top 50 male entrepreneurs, real estate, financial investment and manufacturing are also the main sources of wealth for male entrepreneurs, and the big gap is in the IT industry.
This is the 13th consecutive time that the Hurun Research Institute has released the Top 50 Hurun Female Entrepreneurs List. China accounts for 60% of the most successful female entrepreneurs in the world.
The list also shows that the average wealth of the top 50 Chinese female entrepreneurs has dropped by 7.8% from last year to 21.3 billion yuan, but it is still four times that of ten years ago.
It is worth mentioning that there are 13 new female billionaires on the list, and 12 of them are self-made.Thanks to the listing of Haidilao, Shu Ping, the queen of hot pot, has newly entered the list with a wealth of 12.5 billion yuan.Another co-founder, Li Haiyan, also made the list for the first time with 12.5 billion yuan.
