REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 6/25/17

$14.3 B

• Yang Huiyan owns 55% of real estate developer Country Garden Holdings, a stake transferred to her by her father, Yeung Kwok Keung, in 2007.
• Country Garden has partnered with an arm of the Malaysian government to develop Forest City, a $36 billion residential project near the border of Malaysia and Singapore.
• Restrictions this year on overseas real estate investment by mainland Chinese that could hurt sales there haven't done much to dent Country Garden's stock price.
• Yang's younger sister Ziyang also sits on Country Garden's board.
• Yang holds a degree from Ohio State University.

Yang Huiyan

Yang Huiyan (Simplified Chinese: 杨惠妍, Traditional Chinese: 楊惠妍, Pinyin: Yáng Huìyán; born 1981) is the majority shareholder (55%) of Country Garden Holdings.^[2] She is the richest woman in Asia.^[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 in 2014, according to Forbes.^[3]

Yang is a 2003 graduate of Ohio State University.^[9]

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