Yang Huiyan
| 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$8.2 billion (2014) .[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 the fifth wealthiest person in mainland China.[1] She is currently the youngest female billionaire as well as the richest woman in Asia.[2] She is the 154th wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $8.2 billion USD, according to the Hurun Report Global Rich List, published in February 2014.[1][3]
She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997[4] and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007.[5] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Huang Guangyu.[6] Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States.[7] Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion USD in October 2007.[8]
Yang is vice chairman of the board's governance committee and helped raise $410 million selling new shares last year, according to Forbes.[2]
Yang is a 2003 graduate of Ohio State University.[9]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hurun Report Global Rich List February 2014, Accessed 2014-08-19.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "richest woman in the world". CNN. January 16, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- ↑ The World's Billionaires Yahoo! Finance
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- ↑ Sorry bachelors - richest Chinese woman married, China Daily, April 29, 2007.
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- ↑ Forbes: 26-year-old woman is China's richest person, USA Today, October 7, 2007.
- ↑ Forbes. Yang Huiyan. 2008-03-05. Accessed 2008-03-05.