page_title: Zhang Xin
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Zhang Xin / Career / Recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: Zhang Xin as shown awarded 'Special Prize for an individual patron of architectural works' at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia in September 2002. This was the first time a Biennale prize was awarded to a non-architect.
context_page_description: Zhang Xin is a Chinese billionaire businesswoman, having primarily earned her fortune in the real estate industry. With her husband Pan Shiyi, she is the co-founder and CEO of SOHO China.
  Raised in meager circumstances in Beijing and Hong Kong, where she was a factory worker for a time, Zhang eventually came to own companies responsible for dozens of real estate developments in Beijing and Shanghai. In the mid-2010s, Zhang began a transition from a business model of building and selling properties to one of buying and leasing them. Zhang also acquired large stakes in New York City's Park Avenue Plaza and General Motors Building, and launching the SOHO 3Q shared office space sector for this purpose in February 2015. In 2014, Zhang was listed as the 62nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, and is "regularly named one of the top businesswomen in the world". Zhang and her husband were also previously ranked by Forbes among the "world's most powerful couples". As one of China's best known female entrepreneurs, Zhang has an online following of over 10 million on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
context_section_description: Zhang has received international awards for her role as an architectural patron in China and as an entrepreneur. In 2002, she was awarded a special prize at the 8th la Biennale di Venezia for Commune by the Great Wall, a private collection of architecture, now a hotel.
  Zhang is a member and young global leader of World Economic Forum, Davos, a member of the global board of advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a board member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council. She served as a trustee to the China Institute in America from 2005 to 2010, and was recognized by the China Institute with a Blue Cloud Award in 2010. In 2014, Zhang was listed as the 62nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. and is "regularly named one of the top businesswomen in the world". Zhang and her husband have also been ranked by Forbes among the "world's most powerful couples". Zhang has been named a trustee of the 
  Museum of Modern Art, and of the Asia Society.
caption: Zhang Xin receiving a 'Special Prize for an individual patron of architectural works' at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia in September 2002.
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