{"id":3699,"date":"2007-10-10T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/10\/3699"},"modified":"2007-10-10T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T02:44:13","slug":"china-no2-in-billionaires-as-assets-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2007\/10\/china-no2-in-billionaires-as-assets-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"China No.2 in billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country&#8217;s super-rich.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The number of Chinese worth $1 billion or more jumped to 108, from 15 last year, growing much faster than in western countries, Hoogewerf said in his 2007 China &#8220;rich list,&#8221; which ranks the 800 wealthiest individuals in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s still plenty of growth opportunity as China&#8217;s top entrepreneurs turn their sights to the vast underdeveloped and largely unregulated economic hinterland,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a sign that China&#8217;s economic growth is largely driven by construction and manufacturing, rather than by science and technology, seven of China&#8217;s 10 richest people are mainly or partly in the real estate business.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSPEK20463720071010?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=oddlyEnoughNews\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country&#8217;s super-rich. The number of Chinese worth $1 billion or more jumped to 108, from 15 last year, growing much faster than in western countries, Hoogewerf said in his 2007 China &#8220;rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}