Yang Huiyan

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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 2008.[1][2] 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.[3] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Wong Kwong Yu.[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.[4]

Yang is a 2003 graduate of The Ohio State University.[1]

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  1. ^ a b Forbes. Yang Huiyan. 2008-03-05. Accessed 2008-03-05.
  2. ^ The World's Billionaires Yahoo! Finance
  3. ^ Sorry bachelors - richest Chinese woman married, China Daily, April 29, 2007.
  4. ^ Forbes: 26-year-old woman is China's richest person, USA Today, October 7, 2007.
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