Wong Kwong Yu

Infobox Celebrity
name = Wong Kwong Yu
黄光裕
Mandarin: Huang Guangyu
Teochew: Ng Guangyu
birth_date = May, 1969
birth_place = flagicon|PRC Shantou, Guangdong
occupation = President, Gome Group
Company headquarters = Beijing
networth = profit $2.5 billion USD
footnotes =

Wong Kwong Yu, (Chinese: 黄光裕), also often called Huang Guangyu in mainland China, is the Chairman of Gome Group, which is the largest consumer electronics retailer in China. He had a net worth of US$1.7 billion as of 2005, according to Forbes Magazine's world's richest people ranking. [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/74/ZKKJ.html] In 2005, the richest man in China according to Time magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187472,00.html]

In 2006, he was forced by regulations to sell off 25% of Gome Group, as listed in Hong Kong, making his net worth US$2.5 billion, according to some sources. His amibitious goals include "making Gome one of the 500 largest companies in the world by 2008".

References

* [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/74/ZKKJ.html Forbes]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187472,00.html Times]