Finance Associated Press, January 9 (edited by Shi Zhengcheng).This week, Land Report magazine updated its 2024 list of the nation's "Top 100 Landowners."The appearance of a legend of China's wealth has sparked a lot of attention on the Chinese internet
It should be noted that the ranking of this ranking is based on the simple "large" - only the area of land owned. The unit used in the report is acre, and one acre equals about 4,046 square meters.
According to the Land Report, the largest landowner in the United States in 2024 will remainThe Emerson familyTheir family business, Sierra Pacific Industries, is the second-largest lumber producer in the U.S., with 241 in California, Oregon and Washington10,000 acres.
Ranked first. The second and third are all media tycoons. Owns F1, global entertainment ticketing giants Live Nation and Sirius XMJohn MaloneWith 2.2 million acres of land, founder of CNNTed TurnerWith 2 million acres of land. Among the American Internet billionaires who are more familiar to investors, there are also those on the listBezos(25th, 420,000 acres).Bill Gates(No. 42, No. 27.)50,000 acres).
AbsolutelyThere is also a name that is more familiar to Chinese investors in this year's list – *
**Founded Shanda Network in 1999, and became a Chinese online game giant with "Legend of Blood" in China**. In 2004, Shanda Network was listed on the NASDAQ exchange and became the richest man in China.
Interestingly, digging through the past historical interview materials, it is not difficult to find that the "road to the richest man" is also related to A-shares. He used it exactlyIn 1999, he earned 500,000 yuan in "5.19"**Shanda Network was founded.
Younger investors may not be familiar with *** because he stepped down from all his positions at Shanda in 2014, and his name is only seen in scientific research and philanthropy.
Land Report" data shows that:Timberland, Oregon, in the United States, has 1980,000 acres of land, which also puts him at number 82 on the TOP100 list。This makes him the second-largest non-U.S. citizen to own U.S. land – after the sixth-ranked Canadian Irving family.
It is worth mentioning that the deal that sent *** to the list was completed as early as 2015. At the time, he bought the land from Fidelity National Finance for $85 million, but Oregon tax records did not disclose until last month that the beneficiary of the deal was Sanda Asset Management, the same name as ***'s holding group in Singapore.
According to Shanda's official website, **'s investment covers the secondary market (the largest shareholder of a number of U.S. listed companies), venture capital (invested in 67 VCs), etc. In the real estate investment category, Shanda also made it clear that it "acquired 700,000 acres of forest land in Oregon (USA) and Ontario (Canada)".
After retiring from Shanda, ** has also repeatedly made moves in the field of charity, and vigorously funded scientific research and exploration in the field of brain science.
According to the past telegram data of the Financial Associated Press, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last year, Tianqiao Brain Science Research Institute (TCCI) announced that it would invest another 1 billion yuan to support AI brain science, including the establishment of the MindX laboratory, the construction of AI sleep dreams, AI anti-aging and other series of cutting-edge laboratories, each with a start-up fund of 50 million yuan, and will continue to invest.
Finance Associated Press Shi Zhengcheng).