Yang Huiyan

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YANG Huiyan
杨惠妍
楊惠妍
Born 1981
Shunde, Guangdong Province, PRC
Alma mater Ohio State
Occupation Major shareholder
Country Garden Holdings
Salary N/A
Net worth US$3.9 billion (2009) [1]

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 one of the wealthiest people 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 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. Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. 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]

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Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/74/china-billionaires-09_The-400-Richest-Chinese_Rank.html
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Forbes. Yang Huiyan. 2008-03-05. Accessed 2008-03-05.
  3. ↑ The World's Billionaires Yahoo! Finance
  4. ↑ Sorry bachelors - richest Chinese woman married, China Daily, April 29, 2007.
  5. ↑ Forbes: 26-year-old woman is China's richest person, USA Today, October 7, 2007.
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