{"id":129775,"date":"2025-03-27T20:31:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tiktok-owner-becomes-chinas-richest-person"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:28:18","slug":"tiktok-owner-becomes-chinas-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/tiktok-owner-becomes-chinas-richest-person","title":{"rendered":"TikTok owner becomes China\u2019s richest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>The founder of ByteDance, and owner of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, became the richest person in China.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Thursday that he became the world&#8217;s 24th richest person.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes Billionaires List and Hurun Rich List, a ranking of the richest individuals in China, also showed that he is the richest Chinese person.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg, he has a wealth of $57.5 billion, while Forbes&#8217; figure is at $65.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Yiming, 42, founded ByteDance in 2012, and the firm&#8217;s value is at over $400 billion as of January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance is also the owner of popular mobile applications such as CapCut, Xigua Video, and Douyin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Tanzania<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. The founder of ByteDance, and owner of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, became the richest person in China. Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Thursday that he became the world&#8217;s 24th richest person. Forbes Billionaires List and Hurun Rich List, a ranking of the richest individuals in China, also showed that he is the richest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":129774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[11656,11577,387,14068,14066,711,8516,14067],"class_list":["post-129775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-bloomberg","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-forbest","tag-richest-person","tag-tanzania","tag-tiktok","tag-zhang-yiming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TikTok owner becomes China\u2019s richest person - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The founder of ByteDance, and owner of TikTok, Zhang Yiming, became the richest person in China. 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