首富王健林变身K歌之王 网友高呼:上春晚!

China's richest man Wang Jianlin owns the Internet recently when a video of him belting a Chinese rock classic went viral.

中国首富王健林近日因其演唱华语经典摇滚歌曲的视频而火遍网络。

The 4-minute video of Wang, chairman of conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group, singing karaoke at an employee gala has garnered 1.1 billion views globally since it was posted January 16.

自1月16日被传到网上后，大连万达集团董事长王健林在员工会上K歌的4分钟视频已经在全球被观看了11亿次。

The 61-year-old shows off his vocal chops with a solid rendition of "Fake Monk" by Cui Jian, who is widely known as China's "godfather of rock."

61岁的王健林大展歌喉，将“摇滚教父”崔健的《假行僧》演绎得有模有样。

The video got more than 800 million plays on Chinese social media, and bagged another 300 million on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

这段视频自上传后已经在中国社交媒体上播放超过了8亿次，在YouTube、脸书和推特上也获得了3亿次的点击量。

In a Web survey, more than 90 percent said they wanted to see Wang take his talent center-stage during this year's Spring Festival Gala on CCTV.

根据一项来自网易娱乐的调查显示，超过九成的受访者表示，希望王健林能够带着他的歌唱天赋登上今年的央视春晚舞台。

The video also struck a chord internationally; The story was picked up by papers such as the Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.

此外，这一视频在全球也引起了共鸣，如《洛杉矶时报》和《华尔街日报》都报道了此事。