Liu Yongxing Net Worth

Liu Yongxing has an estimated net worth of $14.5 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Liu Yongxing profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $5.1 billion in 2019.

Liu Yongxing is a Chinese businessman and the founder, chairman and CEO of East Hope Group, a company with interests in heavy industry, agriculture and real estate. He was born in June 1948 in Sichuan province and lives in Shanghai.

He is one of four brothers who became business partners, and his younger brother Liu Yonghao, founder of New Hope Group, is also a billionaire. As children of a family that had been wealthy landlords before the Cultural Revolution, the siblings started out with low social standing, working as farm laborers. Liu graduated from Xihua University in 1968. His wife is a psychologist by training, and they have one child; his son Liu Xiangyu sits on East Hope's board.

Liu has taken on public roles as well. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC, honorary president of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce in Sichuan and a part-time professor at China Agricultural University. In 2002 he was named one of CCTV's top 10 economic leaders of China for 2001.

How Liu Yongxing made his money

In the late 1970s Liu and his brothers started an electronics company, but it soon had to close because such ventures were seen as too capitalistic at the time. In 1982 the four brothers pooled 1,000 yuan and launched Hope Group, raising quail and hatching chickens in Sichuan. They later moved into animal feed and set up the Hope Research Center for feeds in 1986.

In 1995 the brothers amicably split Hope Group into four companies. Liu kept part of the agricultural business and moved into heavy chemicals and aluminum, founding East Hope Group. He moved its headquarters to Shanghai in 1999 and entered the aluminum industry in 2002, and East Hope became one of the largest aluminum producers in the world. Its plants have been fined for breaking emission limits, and in December 2016 two people died when a red mud reservoir failed at its Sanmenxia plant.

How Forbes has valued Liu Yongxing

Forbes valued Liu at $5.1 billion in 2019, $5.9 billion in 2020 and $6.5 billion in 2021. His figure then doubled to $13.2 billion in 2022.

It eased to $9.9 billion in 2023 and $10 billion in 2024, then rose to $11.1 billion in 2025 and $11.2 billion on the 2026 World's Billionaires List. As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker showed $14.5 billion, the highest of his record.