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Private enterprises are an important part of socialist market economy, playing a significant role in pushing economic development and social transition. Forbes China Rich List and Hurun Rich List are the miniature of Chinese economic and social development after reform-opening. Based on the study of semiotics, this thesis reveals the economic, industrial and cultural significance of China Rich List from three aspects through researching the information of China Rich List. The first one is the positive correlation of reform-opening, the rise of the rich class and Chinese economic growth. The second is the interaction of industrial upgrading, replacement of rich list and entrepreneurship. The third is interdependence of regional development, the rich gathering and entrepreneurship environment. Introduction The economic reform of 1978 opened the new era of Chinese rapid economic and social transformation. As the market economy emerging from China, a traditional agricultural country in which the planned economy taking the main role, as the microscopic subject, private enterprises increase their amount and enhance their strength gradually. According to Xinhua News Agency reported that by the end of 2013, in China, the amount of registered private enterprises has reached 1253.9 million; the amount of registered capital has arrived 39.3 billion dollars; the number of individual businesses has amounted 4439.3 million; the sum of people who work in the individual and private business has 219 million; the GDP contributed by private enterprises has amounted to more than 60 percent and the employment rate contributed by which also has reached to more than 80 percent. As an outstanding representative of different stages in private economy, the rich class is both a sign of the rise of China and a sign of Chinese entrepreneur class growing and expanding in a competitive market. And more and more people are paying attention to the rich, Forbes Rich List and Hurun Rich List appeared in the background of China's rise. Semiotics and rich list What is the sign? In brief, sign is a carrier for information and a medium for information transmission. Sign covers a wild field, anything meaningful people acknowledged can be regarded as a sign. Researchers who currently study semiotics consider sign as “a meaningful medium” which conveys information under certain conditions. Semiotics as the name suggests, is a subject focusing on signs. As a method for representing things, signs are used in every aspect of life. Nowadays, semiotics covers each subject at an enormous rate, including literature, music, law, folk custom, art and design and clothes etc. The significance behind the new “sign” “Rich List” is mentioned and focused on constantly, but there are still not many systematic researches. Based on the theory of semiotics, this thesis tries to reveal the significance of the new sign-”Rich List” in transitional country China from economic, industrial and cultural aspects. The number and structure of the rich are highly correlated with the process of country’s opening, competitive advantage and industrial structure. According to “World Population Survey International Conference on Management Engineering and Management Innovation (ICMEMI 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 209 billionaires” which is issued by Wealth-X, a professional investigative agency and Swiss Bank Corporation in November 2013, the total net value of global billionaires’ assets rose from 31 billion dollars in 2009 to 65 billion in 2013. And the number of billionaires increased 60 percent compared with that of 2009. Among them, The United States was ranked in the first place globally with 515 billionaires, while China was ranked in the second place with 157 billionaires. According to Forbes magazine, the number of Chinese billionaires has increased unprecedentedly by jumps in the world. The rich list changes every year, which reflects the changes of industrial pattern and ups and downs of individuals and represents the miniature of the world economic development. In 1917, Forbes Rich List begins to pay attention to Chinese entrepreneurs and business leaders in 2003. The Hurun Rich List , it is for a young British’s research and focus on china, which has traced and recorded the change of Chinese entrepreneur groups and has introduced constantly Chinese entrepreneurs to the world from 1999. Forbes Rich List and Hurun Rich List both have huge impact in China and catch the attention of the whole world. The change of the rich list is the barometer of Chinese private economic development. The rich list is a sign of fortune. Rich lists’ changing means the industry and wealthy rising and declining. In the reform-opening era of competitive billionaires surging and in the background of changeable economy, what kind of change and enlightenment did the surge of Chinese rich and the change of China Rich List bring? The semiotic significance of China Rich List is a problem worthy of study in the process in which traditional society transforms into modern society. Reform-Opening, the rise of the rich class and the Chinese economic growth The increase of the amount of Chinese rich and the total value of their assets reveals that: if Deng Xiaoping hadn’t opened China’s reform-opening and China hadn’t chosen the path of developing market economy, the rich class wouldn’t have appeared, and the innovation, entrepreneurship and the overall rise in the Chinese rich class, which promoted the rapid growth of Chinese economy. Figure 1 The number of Chinese rich growth in Forbes Rich List in 2005 to 2014 Figure 2 The total assets of Chinese rich growth in Forbes Rich List in 2005 to 2014

The Semiotic Significance of China Rich List in Transitional China-Based on Forbes Rich List and Hurun Rich List