China’s Richest Woman Made $2 Billion in Just Four Days
- Controlling shareholder’s fortune soars to $25.6 billion
- 36-year-old woman ranks as fifth-richest person in China
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A share surge at Country Garden Holdings Co., China’s largest developer by sales, has sent Vice Chairman Yang Huiyan’s wealth up by $2.1 billion -- and that’s just in the first four trading days of the year.
Yang, controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $25.6 billion as of Jan. 5 to rank as the fifth-richest person in the nation, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s before Country Garden’s shares rose another 7.4 percent on Monday in Hong Kong trading, taking its year-to-date-gain to 17 percent.