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yang huiyan

yang huiyan

yang huiyan -lrb- simplified chinese : 杨惠妍 , traditional chinese : 楊惠妍 , pinyin : yáng huìyán ; born 1981 -rrb- is the majority shareholder of country garden holdings and the fifth wealthiest person in mainland china .
she is currently the youngest female billionaire as well as the richest woman in asia .
she is the 154th wealthiest person in the world , with an estimated net worth of $ 8.2 billion usd , according to the hurun report global rich list , published in february 2014 .
she is the daughter of yang guoqiang , who started his company biguiyuan in 1997 the wealthiest mainland chinese in the previous year , 2006 , was huang guangyu .
yang 's net worth was estimated at $ 16.2 billion usd in october 2007 .
yang is vice chairman of the board 's governance committee and helped raise $ 410 million selling new shares last year , according to forbes .
yang is a 2003 graduate of ohio state university .
