Pinduoduo founder Huang Zheng (Photo/VCG)

Mar. 10 (NBD) -- Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo's founder Huang Zheng, who is holding net worth of 18 billion U.S. dollars, came second in the latest ranking of the self-made US dollar billionaires aged forty years and under in the world launched by Hurun Research on Monday, and kept the top spot among Chinese billionaires in the list.

According the report titled the Hurun Global 40 & Under Self-Made Billionaires 2020, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg topped the ranking with net worth of 84 billion U.S. dollars. The 35-year-old Facebook leader has taken the first spot for five consecutive years since 2016.

Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok operator ByteDance, ranked the third, and his fortune reduced by only 1 percent to 13.8 billion U.S. dollars this year.

National Business Daily noticed that 53 self-made individuals from 9 countries were included in the list. The United States adds 20 billionaires to the ranking, the most among all countries, followed by China and India which have 19 and 4 billionaires, respectively.

Besides, of all billionaires in the ranking, 38 saw increase of their wealth and 18 were new faces. The new entries include 8 from China, 4 from India and 3 from the United States. New faces from China include short video app Kuaishou's founder Cheng Yixiao, lifestyle platform Meituan-Dianping's co-founder Mu Rongjun, and Bitcoin exchange Huobi's founder Li Lin.

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