China’s ranks of wealthy people have surged above 1.5m people with combined assets of Rmb165tn ($24.2tn) — but growth in their riches is expected to slow this year to a decade-low, according to a new report.
The number of Chinese with investable assets of at least Rmb10m climbed to 1.58m by the end of 2016, up from 180,000 a decade earlier, the report from China Merchants Bank and Bain & Co showed.
Their combined assets are expected to rise to Rmb188tn by the end of this year. That marks a drop in growth to 14 per cent — the slowest for at least a decade which follows a peak between 2014 and 2016, when the compound annual rate hit 21 per cent.