{"id":425329,"date":"2021-07-12T08:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=425329"},"modified":"2021-07-12T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T03:51:28","slug":"billionaire-to-watch-teslas-china-battery-partner-is-richer-than-jack-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/billionaire-to-watch-teslas-china-battery-partner-is-richer-than-jack-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire to watch: Tesla&#8217;s China battery partner is richer than Jack Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zeng Yuqun, the founder of the world\u2019s biggest electric-vehicle battery maker, has overtaken Jack Ma in the wealth rankings, a symbolic moment in the rise of China\u2019s green billionaires. <\/p>\n<p>Zeng\u2019s net worth has jumped to $49.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. surged this year. That exceeds Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Ma\u2019s wealth of $48.1 billion and makes Zeng one of the five richest people in Asia for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest sign of how a new generation of tycoons in China is amassing vast fortunes in the clean-energy boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeng Yuqun, the founder of the world\u2019s biggest electric-vehicle battery maker, has overtaken Jack Ma in the wealth rankings, a symbolic moment in the rise of China\u2019s green billionaires. Zeng\u2019s net worth has jumped to $49.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as shares of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. surged this year. That exceeds Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Ma\u2019s wealth of $48.1 billion and makes Zeng one of the five richest people in Asia for the first time. It\u2019s the latest sign of how a new generation of tycoons in China is amassing vast fortunes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}