In Pictures: Here is the revised list of Asia’s richest people

Gautam Adani | $88.5b |India | Industrial | On Tuesday, Gautam Adani, the billionaire who turned a small commodities trading business into a conglomerate spanning ports, mines and green energy, became Asia's richest person. The magnate surpassed Mukesh Ambani with an almost $12 billion jump. Adani has pledged to invest a total of $70 billion by 2030 to help his group become the world's largest renewable-energy producers.

Mukesh Ambani | $87.9b |India | Energy | Ambani too is pushing ahead with green energy projects and has committed $10 billion over the next three years as part of a larger $76 billion spend plan in renewables.

Zhong Shanshan | $75.1b | China | Diversified Group | Zhong is Chairman of Nongfu Spring, a bottled water company. The Hangzhou-based beverage business had revenues of 22.9 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) in 2020. He's also the major shareholder of Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy Enterprise, the maker of vaccines and hepatitis test-kits that had revenue of 2.4 billion yuan in 2020.

Zeng Yuqun | $52.3b | Hong Kong | Industrial | Zeng is the Chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., the largest supplier of electric vehicle batteries in the world. The China company was founded in 2011 and reported revenues of 50.3 billion yuan ($7.3 billion) in 2020. CATL started trading on the Shenzhen stock exchange in June 2018.

Ma Huateng | $48.8b |China | Technology | Ma is the co-founder and CEO of Tencent Holdings, a Chinese instant messaging, mobile gaming and online payment service provider. The Shenzhen company reported revenue of 482 billion yuan ($73.6 billion) in 2020. Its mobile messaging app WeChat has almost 1.3 billion users.

Zhang Yiming | $44.5b | China | Technology | Zhan is the founder of ByteDance, a social media group and the world's most valuable startup. The Beijing company owns news aggregation service Toutiao and the video-sharing app TikTok. The group has more than 1 billion users and revenues of $35 billion in 2020. Zhang stepped down as chief executive in May 2021.

Jack Ma | $37.9b | China |Technology | Ma is the founder of Alibaba Group, China's biggest e-commerce company. The Hangzhou-based business runs Taobao, an online shopping site, and Tmall, a facilitator of online stores. The group had revenues of 717 billion yuan ($105 billion) in the year to March 2021. Ma also has a stake in online payment service Ant Group.

Azim Premji | $33.8b | India | Technology | Premji is the Chairman and largest shareholder of Wipro, the IT and outsourcing company with more than 180,000 employees. He owns a majority stake of the Bengaluru-based business after transferring more than $4 billion worth of shares to his foundation and private-equity fund PremjiInvest.

William Ding | $31.9b |China |Technology | Ding is the CEO and largest shareholder of NetEase, an internet service provider. The Beijing entity is best known for bringing games like Overwatch and Westward Journey to local players. Its email system has about 595 million registered users and the company reported revenue of 73.4 billion yuan ($10.7 billion) in 2020.

He Xiangjian | $31.6b | China |Consumer | He is founder and largest shareholder of Midea Group, China's biggest exporter of air-conditioners. The Foshan-based company reported revenues of 285 billion yuan ($41.5 billion) in 2020. Publicly-traded Midea produces a range of household products, including heaters, refrigerators and washing machines.