TikTok’s founder is now China’s richest person. But the country’s total number of billionaires has shrunk

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CNN  —  China has a new richest person – and it’s the entrepreneur behind the wildly popular, and controversial, app TikTok. Zhang Yiming, 41, co-founder of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, topped the 2024 Hurun China Rich List, released Tuesday. His wealth reached $49.3 billion, as assessed by research, media and investment group Hurun Inc, which publishes the ranking of the country’s richest people. Zhang’s ascendency comes after ByteDance’s global revenue grew 30% last year to $110 billion,