- Yang Huiyan
Infobox_Celebrity
name = YANG Huiyan
杨惠妍
楊惠妍
caption =
birth_date = 1981
birth_place = flagicon|PRCShunde ,Guangdong Province , PRC
occupation = Major shareholder
Country Garden Holdings
alma_mater = Ohio State
salary = N/A
networth = increaseUS$16.02 billion (2007) [ [http://money.163.com/special/00252E12/forbes2007_all.html 福布斯2007年中国富豪榜_网易财经 ] ]Yang Huiyan (
Simplified Chinese : 杨惠妍,Traditional Chinese : 楊惠妍,Pinyin : Yáng Huìyán; born1981 ) is the majority shareholder ofCountry Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person inMainland China , with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion USD as of March 2008.Forbes. [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Yang-Huiyan_ECLZ.html Yang Huiyan] . 2008-03-05. Accessed 2008-03-05.] [ [http://ca.pfinance.yahoo.com/ca_finance_general/574/the-worlds-billionaires The World's Billionaires] Yahoo! Finance] She is the daughter ofYang Guoqiang , who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 [http://mrwavetheory.blogspot.com/2007/10/yang-huiyan-is-26-and-shes-got-16.html] and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007. [ [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/29/content_863758.htm Sorry bachelors - richest Chinese woman married] , "China Daily ", April 29, 2007.] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, wasWong Kwong Yu . [http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008769205] Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-04/23/content_857041.htm] Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion USD in October 2007. [ [http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-10-08-china-rich_N.htm Forbes: 26-year-old woman is China's richest person] , "USA Today ", October 7, 2007. ]Yang is a 2003 graduate of
The Ohio State University .Notes
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