Yang Huiyan’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story

Yang Huiyan’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story

Comprehensive coverage of Yang Huiyan’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story, highlighting expert commentary.

Intro Chinese businesswoman, heiress, billionaire
Is Businessperson 
Entrepreneur 
From China 
Type Business 
Gender female
Birth September 1981, Shunde District, People’s Republic of China
Age: 38 years
Family
Father: Yang Guoqiang 
Education
Ohio State University

Yang Huiyan (simplified Chinese: 杨惠妍; traditional Chinese: 楊惠妍; pinyin: Yáng Huìyán; born 1981) is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman. She is a property developer and the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings, a stake largely transferred to her by her father Yang Guoqiang in 2007. She is the richest woman in Asia.

Her father Yang Guoqiang started the real estate company Country Garden in 1997 and transferred 70% of Country Garden’s shares to her before its IPO in 2007. Country Garden’s initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. As of June 2019, Yang had a net worth of US$21.2 billion. Yang is vice chairman of the board’s governance committee and helped raise $410 million selling new shares in 2014, according to Forbes.

Yang is a 2003 graduate of Bachelor of Arts/Science, Ohio State University.

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