Crisis? What crisis? Rich get even richer

The ranks of China's super rich ballooned during the past year, despite the financial crisis, with the number of US dollar billionaires jumping from 101 to 130.

The rise in fortunes means China is now home to the world's second-largest population of billionaires - following the US, which has 359.

The newly released 2009 Hurun Rich List, a ranking of the 1,000 richest individuals in China, shows that the average wealth of those listed rocketed by 30 percent, to $571 million, during the past 12 months.