美国《福布斯》杂志1997年公布的一年一度的亿万富豪榜,在全球首二百名富豪的名单中,首富仍然是三连冠的美国电脑软件大王运转盖茨,拥有三百六十多亿美元。事实上,1997年美国人的表现异常突出,首十名富豪中占了六席。反而,1996年占了半数的亚洲富豪却大退步,只有两人晋身十大之列。不过,香港富豪却豪不逊色,共有七人打入富豪榜,而李兆基及郭炳湘兄弟更是位列第四第八位。 In the list of the world’s top 200 billionaires released by the Forbes magazine in 1997, the richest man in the world still has three consecutive titles running the U.S. computer software giant Gates, with more than 360 One hundred million U.S. dollars. In fact, the performance of Americans was exceptionally outstanding in 1997, with the top ten wealthy occupying six seats. On the contrary, the rich in Asia, which accounted for half of the total in 1996, regressed far away. Only two of them were in the top ten. However, Regal Hong Kong is not inferior, a total of seven people into the rich list, and Lee Shau Kee and Guo Bingxiang brothers is ranked fourth eighth.