Date of birth: 198 1 year.
Gender: Female
Native place: Shunde, Guangdong
Position: Executive Director of Country Garden
Graduate School: Department of Marketing and Logistics, Ohio State University.
According to the latest Forbes list of China's richest people, Yang, a 26-year-old China real estate developer and major shareholder of Country Garden, became the richest woman in Asia with a net worth of1211500 million yuan.
Yang, the 26-year-old daughter of Yang Guoqiang, one of the founders of Country Garden, was named the richest man in China on the Forbes Asia Rich List in 2007. Her net worth is as high as $654.38+06 billion, making her the richest woman in Asia. His father Yang Guoqiang is the chairman of Country Garden. He kept a low profile and transferred his shares to his daughter in 2005.
As one of Yang Guoqiang's three daughters, Yang, 26, is currently the largest shareholder of Country Garden Group, holding 70% of the shares of the group company. After listing, its shareholding ratio is 58. 19%.
On April 2, 2007, Yang Guoqiang, who rarely appeared, was interviewed by the media at the company's Hong Kong IPO promotion meeting and answered the successor's questions for the first time. As for why he gave tens of billions of shares to his second daughter Yang so early, Yang Guoqiang's answer was "In fact, I will give them when I am 100 years old, and I can trust them!" In the listing prospectus, he wrote a family inheritance plan on it: "The transfer of equity to his daughter Yang is to train her to become the heir of Country Garden."
At the same time, Yang Guoqiang said that he has three daughters, and he will not transfer his equity to only one of them. Yang only holds shares on behalf of the family.
On April 10, Country Garden Group issued a clarification announcement, saying that Yang Guoqiang and his daughter Yang had confirmed to the board of directors that Yang was not the spokesperson of his father, but the ultimate beneficial owner of the company's rights and interests, and could decide how to manage personal assets by himself. Her rights and interests in this company do not involve any trust or arrangement that she is responsible for any member of the Yang family or other individuals.
This means that Yang Guoqiang took the initiative to put the crown of the richest man in the mainland on her daughter's head. Yang got married last year at the age of 25, a girl who rarely appeared in public, and became the richest woman in China after that.
Country Garden (2007. HK) 1992, a real estate developer in Shunde, Guangdong Province, was born in Shunde, Guangdong Province, and his main development business is concentrated in Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta region. Since 1999, the group's total annual real estate sales have exceeded 2.5 billion yuan.
Country Garden (2007. HK), a real estate developer in Shunde, Guangdong, was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 20, 2007, attracting 680,000 Hong Kong people to subscribe. Public offering of shares * * * effectively applied for 665,438+0,366,500 shares, equivalent to 254.7 times oversubscription. Yang is the second daughter of Yang Guoqiang, the founder of Country Garden. At the same time that Country Garden was publicly issued, Yang Guoqiang transferred its equity to his second daughter, Yang. Yang 100% holds "Win-Win Limited". This foreign-funded company registered in the British Virgin Islands holds 9.52 billion shares of Country Garden, accounting for 58. 19% after listing.
The first day of listing opened at 7.00 yuan. Yang, a 25-year-old major shareholder holding 9.52 billion shares of Country Garden, has surpassed Chairman nine dragons paper to become the richest woman, worth about HK$ 66.64 billion.
On this road to wealth creation, Country Garden has attracted investment tycoons including Lee Shau Kee, Guo Henian, CITIC Pacific and Temasek. The enthusiastic pursuit of 680,000 retail investors has added a myth of capital operation to the already lively stock market.
According to the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po report, Lee Shau Kee, the chairman of Henderson Land (00 12), known as the Asian stock god, publicly stated on March 20th that he planned to use 65,438 billion yuan to subscribe for new shares of Country Garden and become a strategic shareholder. Since then, Country Garden has quickly become the focus of market investment.
At the investor promotion meeting of Country Garden, the relevant person said: "The unit land cost of Country Garden has always been lower than 65,438+00% of the average selling price. Based on its rapid asset turnover and strong capital flow, the company has the ability to pay most of the land transfer fees. By 65438+20071October 3 1 day, the land reserve construction area of Country Garden is about190,000 square meters, of which 97% of the land has obtained land use certificates and the other 3% is being processed. "
Later, it turns out that this promotion seems to give investors more confidence, so that Country Garden has been sought after by investors from roadshows to listings, and has become a rare hot stock for mainland private enterprises. According to the report, 680,000 Hong Kong people, accounting for nearly 10% of Hong Kong's total population, applied for Country Garden, which was officially listed last Friday (April 20th), with a frozen capital of HK$ 333 billion, second only to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, making it the largest mainland real estate enterprise listed in Hong Kong over the years.
On April 3rd, the prospectus and announcement of Country Garden (2007.HK) were published on the website of HKEx, and the listing of Country Garden officially kicked off. According to its plan, Country Garden will issue 2.4 billion new shares, raising about HK$ 654.38+00 billion. According to its prospectus, the project of this enterprise has completed the construction area of 6,487,647 square meters, and 37,705 sets have been built, which is expected to accommodate 1.5 million people. The undeveloped gross floor area is 48,265,438+04,265,438+0 square meters, and the future developed property gross floor area is 65,438+03,320,234 square meters.
On April 20th, Guangdong Country Garden Group (2007. H K) officially listed on the China Stock Exchange, where another capital myth of the real estate industry is written.
After Country Garden went public, HK$ 7.00 opened, once rising to 7.35 yuan, and the value of Yang, the richest woman, soared to HK$ 70 billion. At midday in Hong Kong, Country Garden's share price reached HK$ 7.34, and Yang's worth reached HK$ 69.877 billion, approaching HK$ 70 billion.
Meanwhile, in 2006, nine dragons paper (2689. HK), owned by Zhang Yin, the richest man in the mainland, closed at HK$ 16.38, up by HK$ 0.22 or 1.36%, with a market value of HK$ 68.239 billion. Zhang Yin, who holds 72% of the shares, is currently worth HK$ 49,654.38+32 million.
How rich is Yang? The American International Herald Tribune made an image comparison: her personal wealth has surpassed Soros, Apple's Steve Jobs and media tycoon Murdoch.
In an article entitled "Dad's Daughter", Forbes attributed the reason why Yang became the richest man to "having a good father and the wealth expansion brought by listing".
The young wealth owner is unusually low-key. She has not been interviewed so far, and the media can't even find a photo about her that meets the publishing standards.
Judging from his resume, Yang's personal experience is extremely simple. Yang, a native of 198 1 Shunde, had a quiet childhood in his hometown. Most of her middle school life was spent in Guangdong Country Garden School founded by her father.
In the eyes of a subordinate of Yang Guoqiang, Yang is a "girl next door", giving people a "faint sense of intimacy and stability". "She is very simple and ordinary." A former staff member of Country Garden recalled, "When I met her, Doudou was still a middle school student aged 13." Yang's nickname is "Doudou", and the Country Garden executives who are closely related to Yang's family are all called him by his parents.
In appearance, Yang is like her mother, while her sister is like her father. "Interestingly, so is personality!" The Country Garden executive who has served Yang Guoqiang for seven years said that when she saw Yang Shi, she always had a smile on her face, "but I won't talk to you too much".
Before Yang went to study in the United States, in order to strengthen her English listening and speaking ability, Yang Guoqiang specially invited a foreign female student of similar age to eat and live with her. "Yang Zong's education and training for them is more about personality," said a former assistant of Yang Guoqiang.
Yang Guoqiang, who likes to study Li Ka-shing's biography, seems to be following Li Ka-shing's example in raising children. When Yang was only thirteen or fourteen years old, his father took two sisters to the board of directors to attend the audit. After the meeting, Yang Guoqiang will also explain to them why he spoke like this at the meeting and how to criticize his subordinates.
In this example, Yang may gradually understand that she will be the future successor of Country Garden. However, this is not the ideal career for this introverted girl. Yang is far from being the richest man now. She once said in front of her family that her ambition is to be a teacher. "Managing a company, especially a big one like Country Garden, is not necessarily Miss Yang's initial interest, at least not before going to the United States." The above-mentioned Country Garden executives said.
On the contrary, my sister Yang Ziying is more active. She once said half-seriously and half-jokingly, "In the future, my sister will be in charge of the company and I will be in charge of the school!" Yang Ziying is now studying psychology at Ohio State University. In the autumn of 200 1, Yang, who graduated from Country Garden International School, also attended the school. Four years later, she got a degree in marketing and logistics.
"I was surprised to hear that she is the richest man. She is very low-key, and almost no one knows her in the circle of international students in China. " Yang Xuefeng, a graduate of Ohio State University, said.
Yang, who has not been interviewed by mainland media so far, is deeply curious about his personal problems. According to the grapevine, Yang got married with last year. How did that lucky man marry our young and talented richest man? Some people even say that her husband is from Harbin. This group of pictures obtained exclusively by e-Netcom Video Network undoubtedly confirms that the richest woman in the Mainland is indeed married. The wedding photos show that the young richest woman is tall and has a good temperament, and always smiles in front of people. Besides, her husband wears glasses and looks very gentle. /jiaoyou/v.asp？ id=7953
biographical notes
Yang graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in marketing and logistics. In 2005, he joined Country Garden as the manager of purchasing department. Yang is now the executive director of the company, mainly responsible for the overall procurement supervision, enterprise resource management and participation in formulating development strategies.
In fact, Yang is not only the spokesman of Yang family fortune. According to insiders of Country Garden Company, as early as three years ago, Yang Guoqiang went to the United States for medical treatment, and the management team of Country Garden Group was completely taken over by Yang. Yang, who was only 22 years old at that time, joined Country Garden, bringing a brand-new management team from the United States, which largely replaced the original entrepreneurial team in the Yang Guoqiang era.
People in the real estate industry who have had contact with Yang commented that Yang has the ability, vigilance and ability to control things, and she will let Country Garden complete the transformation from a family business to a modern enterprise. Country Garden has won many suburban plots in Tianjin, Beijing and other cities as well as Jiangsu, Hunan and other provinces in the past. Now Country Garden has gradually shifted from factory mode to personalized production on the premise of a large amount of accumulation in the early stage.
An executive of a real estate company who has dealt with Country Garden for many years said that Country Garden products used to be a "new socialist countryside", but after seeing the holiday peninsula property built by Country Garden in Qingyuan, it will be found that this is quite different from the previous impression of Country Garden. "The holiday peninsula with 27 holes of golf is also a super market of tens of thousands of acres, but the design level is already very high and very individual."
According to many Country Garden employees, Yang Guoqiang and Yang are not people who want to show their faces. Only a few senior leaders have the opportunity to meet the executive director, and ordinary employees basically have no chance to know this "small boss".
Yang's husband, who graduated from Tsinghua University and also had the experience of studying in the United States, was arranged to marry Yang Xi. At the end of 2006, Yang Guoqiang held a grand wedding banquet for Yang at Country Garden Hotel. According to people attending the wedding reception, the groom's father is a deputy department-level cadre in a northeast province, and the boss Yang is "very proud" and "very satisfied" with his daughter's marriage.
Country Garden was founded by the current chairman Yang Guoqiang in the early 1990s. Yang Guoqiang was born as a contractor and kept a low profile. He hardly gives interviews to the media. However, the internal shareholder structure of Country Garden is a typical family business, and many major shareholders are related to Yang Guoqiang by blood or in-laws. In the Hurun Report in 2006, Country Garden * * had ten shareholders, six of whom were Yang from Shunde.
Yang Guoqiang himself has always been a major shareholder of the company. Two years ago, Yang, who was only 23 years old and graduated from the Marketing and Logistics Department of Ohio State University, joined Country Garden and became Yang Guoqiang's personal assistant. In the same year, Yang Guoqiang transferred all his shares to his daughter, hoping to make Yang Pei a successor. As of March this year, Yang, the 26-year-old daughter of Yang Guoqiang, one of the founders of Country Garden, was ranked as the richest man in China in the 2007 Forbes Asia China Rich List. Holding 70% equity of Country Garden Group, it is the largest shareholder.
At present, as the founder of Country Garden, Yang Guoqiang and his family have begun to attract the attention of the world with the listing of the group. Although Yang Guoqiang has transferred all the rights and interests under his name to his daughter Yang in 2005, and no longer enjoys the rights and interests of the group company, he still serves as the executive director of Country Garden Group, responsible for formulating the development strategy, investment plan and overall project plan of the group.
This means that although ostensibly working for his daughter, he is still the helm of the real estate giant Country Garden.
Yang Guoqiang, the founder and soul of Country Garden Group, has experienced the prosperity of private entrepreneurs in the Mainland since 1980s. He is 53 years old, about 1.75 meters tall, with dark skin and thin figure. Someone who has seen him commented that "the suit is always like a bigger size". He was born in Beijiao Town, Shunde, and grew up in a poor family. In the 1980s, he accumulated his first bucket of gold as a construction contractor. According to Hong Kong media reports, he didn't wear shoes before 17. When I was young, I used to raise cows and be a plasterer. At that time, my monthly income 180 yuan.
In an exclusive interview with Outlook Oriental Weekly, Yang Guoqiang said that he had the despair of "earning fifty cents a day".
Compared with now, in the Hurun Report of 2006, Country Garden has ten shareholders, six of whom are Yang from Shunde. Yang Guoqiang's annual salary is also the highest among directors at present. In 2006, the annual salary was 654.38+0.46 million yuan.
Now Yang Guoqiang's ancestral home in Guangjiao Village, Beijiao Town is still well preserved. Local villagers said that Yang Guoqiang only goes back to his ancestral home once a year during the Spring Festival, and a female villager is responsible for cleaning it on weekdays. The poor equipment in the house shows that the rich man's life is extremely simple.
After becoming a billionaire with annual sales of several billion yuan, Yang Guoqiang still kept a low profile and never saw an exclusive interview with him by the media. However, he often observes the sales situation at the sales site when the new site opens, and his simple dress often makes onlookers think that he is a middle-aged "contractor".