Foreword The release of the 2026 Hurun Global Rich List has unveiled a historic turning point in China's top-tier wealth landscape. While public attention was still fixated on the shifting ranks of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, a deeper structural change had already taken shape: the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), with a total of 301 billionaires (in USD), not only far surpasses domestic city clusters like the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei