Rupert Hoogewerf is one of the most knowledgeable experts on China’s super-rich. Since 1999, the Englishman has been publishing the so-called Hurun Report, a list of the names of China’s billionaires. But the data is more than just gossip about the upper ten thousand. According to Hoogeweerf, the Hurun China Rich List mirrors the Chinese economy, revealing which industries are booming and which are going through a crisis.