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Ranking No. 1: Liu Luanxiong Liu Luanxiong is from Chaozhou, Guangdong.
Born in Hong Kong in 1951.
He studied at a Canadian university in his early years and received a bachelor's degree.
After graduating in 1974, he returned to Hong Kong and joined his family's ceiling fan manufacturing business, earning him the nickname "Fan Liu".
Liu Luanxiong has a keen vision and great courage. He has been galloping in the Hong Kong stock market as a sniper and has risen rapidly since 1985.
It has now developed into a comprehensive group with 4 listed companies. Its total market value follows the top ten consortiums and has become a candidate chaebol in Hong Kong. Its business has expanded to real estate, media, construction and manufacturing.
On April 6, 2020, Liu Luanxiong's family ranked 62nd in the "Hurun Global Top 100 Entrepreneurs" with a wealth of 115 billion yuan.
Major events in Liu Luanxiong's collecting world: In 2006, Liu Luanxiong bought Andy Warhol's painting "Mao" for US$17.376 million. In 2007, at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, Liu Luanxiong bought another US$39.2 million (approximately 304.87 million US dollars).
Hong Kong dollars) bought the world-famous painting "Morning" by the French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. This painting is not only Gauguin's peak painting in Tahiti, but also recognized by the industry as a top work comparable to national treasure masters such as Van Gogh and Picasso.
A masterpiece of beauty.
In 2011, Liu Luanxiong bid for Qi Baishi's "Landscape Album" at a sky-high price of 194 million yuan. Then, in 2012, Picasso's famous painting "Women of Algiers (F)" came up for auction, and Liu Luanxiong once again spent 16 million U.S. dollars to win it.
Just when everyone was still sighing and amazed, Liu Luanxiong said again: "The asking price of this painting in the first half of 2011 was already 42 million. 16 million to buy such a beautiful painting is so worth it!" Well, the thinking of a rich man
Sure enough, he is different from ordinary people!
We keep our eyes on the present, people are always taking a long-term view!
In 2006, he paid 43 million Hong Kong dollars for the work "The Splash" by the British painter David Hockney. This painting was acquired by Qiu Guoshi, Li Jianchen,
With the close coordination between Cheng Shoukang and the three of them, 23.117 million pounds was successfully auctioned at Sotheby's "Contemporary Art" special auction in London in February 2020, equivalent to more than 200 million yuan. After 14 years, the net profit was 100 million yuan.
More than 60 million.
Ranked second: Zhang Zongxian Zhang Zongxian is a collector of Chinese art. He has spent decades and spared no effort to collect Chinese porcelain, Chinese calligraphy and paintings around the world, and is generally respected in the world's cultural relic collection circles.
He is the main promoter of Sotheby's and Christie's, two major international auction companies, in expanding their markets in Hong Kong.
At the same time, he also devoted a lot of energy and financial resources to several major art auction companies in Beijing and Shanghai.
Major events in Zhang Zongxian’s collecting world: “Visible, affordable, affordable and sold.”
He focuses on collecting one series at a time, and then moves on to the next series after achieving initial results, so as not to pursue nothing.
As his paintings were sold at high prices at Sotheby's, he started the next "battle": he collected more than 100 imperial cloisonné enamels from all over the world, and with the help of experts from the Forbidden City, he published an exquisite collection
Collection, and an exhibition of the collection was held at the Suzhou Museum in December 2007.
Mr. Zhang held a snuff bottle collection exhibition at the Suzhou Museum in the spring of 2012.
There are more than 400 exhibits, colorful and both elegant and popular.
On the day of the launch, a delegation of more than 50 Shanghai collectors went to congratulate him. They saw that Mr. Zhang was able to cope with the crowd easily. He is truly an "evergreen tree" in the collection world.
Ranked third: Liu Yiqian Liu Yiqian, born in 1963, once worked for Shanghai Forest Electronic Engineering Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Mileford Electrical Equipment Co., Ltd., and is currently the chairman of Xinliyi Group Co., Ltd. and the chairman of Tianmao Industrial Group Co., Ltd.
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Liu Yiqian was one of the top ten news figures in 2008.
The 2013 New Fortune China Rich List ranked 30th with 17 billion.
In March 2015, Liu Yiqian bought a Ming Dynasty Buddhist scripture with a history of more than 600 years for US$14.026 million (approximately RMB 86.9 million). It was the most expensive auction item during the Asian Art Week in New York and the highest auction price outside Asia.
The highest works of Chinese calligraphy and painting.
On April 5, 2016, Zhang Daqian's masterpiece "Taoyuan Tu" in his later years was successfully auctioned for HK$240 million, plus commission of HK$270 million (approximately RMB 225 million).
In the 2016 Hurun Report, the Liu Yiqian family ranked 44th with a wealth of 34.5 billion.
?In October 2018, Liu Yiqian’s family ranked 71st on the 2018 Hurun Rich List with a wealth of 35 billion yuan.
?In July 2019, it ranked 90th on the 2019 Forbes China Charity List.
?On October 10, 2019, the Liu Yiqian family ranked 65th on the "2019 Hurun Rich List" with a wealth of 40 billion yuan.