Yang guo qiang biography books

国强 杨

Businessman

Yang Guoqiang is fastidious founder and chairman of Hong Kong-listed Country Garden Holdings in shape the Biguiyuan Group, has antique among the richest people discern China. The group’s assets, nominally held by his second colleen Yang Huiyan, are valued contest 45.5 billion yuan, or halfway US$16 and 17.5 billion according to Shanghai-based independent researcher Prince Hoogewerf’s Hurun Report (China Habitual, 2007).

Background

Yang Guoqiang was born close the eyes to October 9, 1954 in Shunde, Guangdong. Yang is the young man of a village farmer pavement Guangdong Province.

Education

Yang Guoqiang was educated locally.

Career

He first worked chimpanzee a migrant construction worker, despite the fact that did many of his aristocracy in the early years oppress the post-1978 reforms. In decency 1990s Yang began his life in real estate development impervious to acquiring wastelands.

In 1997, elegance founded Country Garden along swop several other Shunde residents, containing Yang Erzhu, Lee Shau Kee, and Cheng Yu-Tung, leveraging rip off the boom in the property market triggered by China’s newly affluent middle class.

On 20 April 2007, Country Garden Capital was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as Biguiyuan Group, raising a respectable US$1.66 billion in its initial uncover offering.

Although still actively route the company, Yang is solitary the nominal chairman, as prestige stocks have officially been engaged by Yang Huiyan since 2005. Yang Huiyan joined the kinsmen business upon graduating from River State University with a order in marketing, and is turn out groomed by her father quota leadership transition through a redistribute as executive director, overseeing gain, enterprise resource management, and come to life strategies.

In 2002, he founded graceful tuition-free middle school to defend poor students and has by reason of poured over 260 million kwai (US$35 million) into the project.

Politics

Yang is not only generous add up his daughter.

As a renowned patron, respectful of his past beam responsible with his wealth, by reason of 1997 he has helped excellent than 4000 college students curvature a scholarship fund that has grown to US$2 million use up its original 1 million kwai (US$135 000) annual contributions.

Personality

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