Yang Huiyan
YANG Huiyan 杨惠妍 楊惠妍 | |
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| Born | 1981 |
| Alma mater | Ohio State |
| Occupation(s) | Major shareholder Country Garden Holdings |
Yang Huiyan (Simplified Chinese: 杨惠妍, Traditional Chinese: 楊惠妍, Pinyin: Yáng Huìyán; born 1981) is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion USD as of March 2009.[2][3] She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 [1] and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007.[4] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Huang Guangyu. [2] Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. [3] Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion USD in October 2007.[5]
Yang is a 2003 graduate of The Ohio State University.[2]
See also
- Zhang Yin, the founder and director of Nine Dragons Paper, ranked below Yang Huiyan by wealth
Notes
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/74/china-billionaires-09_The-400-Richest-Chinese_Rank.html
- ^ a b Forbes. Yang Huiyan. 2008-03-05. Accessed 2008-03-05.
- ^ The World's Billionaires Yahoo! Finance
- ^ Sorry bachelors - richest Chinese woman married, China Daily, April 29, 2007.
- ^ Forbes: 26-year-old woman is China's richest person, USA Today, October 7, 2007.
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