Yang Huiyan (Simplified Chinese: ???, Traditional Chinese: ???, Pinyin: Yáng Huìyán; born 1981) is a Chinese property developer and the majority shareholder (55%) of Country Garden Holdings. She is the richest woman in Asia.
She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007. The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Huang Guangyu. Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. As of January 2018, Yang had a net worth of US$28.1 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 Ohio State University.
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