It’s been a record year for China’s Internet moguls, but not in the way most would have hoped.
The country’s 10 richest tech tycoons lost US$80bil (RM333.80bil) in combined net worth in 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, amid widescale crackdowns by Chinese regulators. The drop represents almost a quarter of their total wealth and is the largest one-year decline since 2012, when the index started tracking the world’s richest people.
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