In mid-February, the domestic media reprinted a report from a foreign media, which caused a lot of repercussions.
This is an article published in Forbes magazine in November '99, which lists the 50 richest people in China, also known as the rich list.
The list is relatively simple and divided into four grades.
The personal or family wealth exceeds one billion yuan, 500 million yuan to 1 billion yuan, 100 million yuan to 500 million yuan, 50 million to 100 million yuan, and a total of 50 people in China are on the list.
Forbes created a cover for the list, featuring a Chinese national, but the face on either side of the character is very different.
On one side is the old clothes of Huaguo in the 70s, and on the other side is the image of a big brother in his hand and a gold watch.
Forbes is a professional business magazine in the United States, known for publishing professional articles on finance, industry, investment and marketing, and has great influence in the field of finance.
This article has attracted much attention abroad, and many mainstream media abroad have commented on it.
They believe that this is an example of the emergence of capitalists in China, from which they can analyze the rise of the wealthy class in China and the changes in the wealthy society.
Some people in China became rich first, forming a new social class.
There are also media jokingly saying that the Chinese people have finally found the glorious feeling of getting rich.
Foreign media have always felt mysterious about China, and this list has lifted a corner of the mystery and let them know that the country is going through a huge transformation.
Wealth is always an attractive topic.
Three months later, the article was reprinted by the domestic media under the title "Who is the richest man in China?"
For the first time, the country's wealthy class appeared in public, and the common people finally knew that they were the richest.
Lin Zixuan looked at the report and smiled wryly, because he was also on the list, ranking forty-eighth, belonging to the 50 million to 100 million grade.
The list of 50 people on the rich list is dominated by industries such as trusts, manufacturing, health care, real estate and resources.
There are two people in the entertainment industry who have entered the list, and the other is Liu Xiaoqing, ranked forty-fifth.
Liu Xiaoqing's entry into the list is not only due to salary, but also for real estate investment and various foreign trade companies, she has always been the richest person in the entertainment industry and is known as a billionaire sister.
Lin Zixuan, as the CEO of Good Dreams, is also a best-selling author, with total assets of more than 50 million.
He smiled wryly because it wasn't a good thing.
Chinese people have always paid attention to wealth and do not show it, and rich people do not want people to know, except for those nouveau riche.
One is that the real rich are used to keeping a low profile, and the other is that the gun shoots the first bird.
This list will attract the attention of the media and relevant departments, such as the tax department, how much money you earn and how much tax you pay.
At this time, tax evasion by enterprises is a common phenomenon, which is difficult to find out, and the tax department does not have the energy to conduct a comprehensive investigation.
The rich list is like a guiding light, telling the tax department to investigate them.
Therefore, seeing this list, Lin Zixuan's first reaction was to ask Good Dream Company and the cooperative publishing house to check whether he had evaded taxes.
He and the publishing house settle the royalties every six months, and the publishing house also has the possibility of tax evasion.
Besides, this list is not real enough.
There are many rich people in Huaguo, but there are also a lot, Lin Zixuan knows some people who are richer than him, but those people did not enter this list.
The list comes from an Englishman named Hu Yan.
He was an accountant who came to Shanghai from London in '97 to work, and he didn't make a name for himself, and in July '99, he had an idea to make a list of the richest people in China.
His purpose in making the rich list is not to show the Chinese people, but to attract attention in Europe and the United States and other countries.
Hu Yan's process of making the list was rather rough.
He and several colleagues made estimates by looking through newspapers and magazines in Huaguo's financial sector, lists of charitable donors, as well as the share prices of listed companies and the amount of corporate taxes.
These public information became the basis for his compilation of the rich list, and together with his conjectures, he concocted a list.
It can be seen that Hu Yan chooses entrepreneurs who are well-known and often appear in the media.
Lin Zixuan meets the requirements in this regard, whether it is the CEO of a film and television company or a best-selling author, his income is not difficult to estimate.
Hu Yan believes that Lin Zixuan's wealth exceeds 70 million and has great potential for growth in the future.
He only spent two months checking the information, which was extremely hasty, and he did not seriously understand the national conditions of Huaguo, and of course there was no channel to understand it.
As a foreigner with little reputation, it is impossible to be accepted by the wealthy class in China.
In early September, Hu Yan sent a concocted list of 50 people to the commercial media in Europe and the United States.
Including nearly a dozen professional financial media outlets, including The Times, Financial Times, Fortune, Business Week, Forbes, etc., Forbes finally chose to publish this report.
Hu Yan wrote a passage in it.
"October 1 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of China, and if success is defined as the amount of wealth owned, then these 50 people are the most successful people in China, and their stories can help the world better understand China's society."
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This is the process of the creation of the rich list, and there is no communication with these rich people in advance.
Hu Yan didn't know how much trouble he had caused to the wealthy people of China.
After the rich list was reprinted by the domestic media, the rich people had two reactions, some people didn't want to be on the list at all, and some people tried their best to be on the list.
Lin Zixuan is a person who doesn't want to be on the list, it's not that he's hypocritical, but he doesn't think it's necessary.
He drove no more than 500,000 cars, did not wear a famous brand, or carried a million-dollar watch, and maintained a low-key life like most of the rich people in China.
This list had a great impact on him, allowing him to enter the public eye as a wealthy man.
For example, if you participate in charity activities, if you donate less, you will definitely be scolded, and you are all in the top 50 rich people who donate a little, whether you have a conscience or a black heart.
This situation will often happen in the future, and there will be people who will come to the door to solicit investment, ask for donations, and so on.
Once refused, or given less, it will be criticized, and moral kidnapping is not uncommon in China.
Relatively speaking, he is at the bottom, and the pressure is not great, and those rich people in the front are not expected to feel good.
Putting down the newspaper, Lin Zixuan asked Mu Shanshan to call Liu Xiaoqing and remind Liu Xiaoqing to pay attention to tax issues.
Women talk to each other, Liu Xiaoqing's development focus in the past two years has been on business, there are not many film and television works, and everyone has fewer contacts, but they are still friends.
This reminder is a proper meaning between friends, and she can't care if she listens to it or not. t1706231537: