Yang Guoqiang is a Chinese entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

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, the founder and chairman of Country Garden

Country Garden

Country Garden is a property development company based in Guangdong Province, China, owned by Yang Guoqiang's family...

 Group, one of the largest real estate

Real estate

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 developers in Guangdong Province, Mainland China

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Since April 2007, his family (Most of the assets are nominally held by Yang's second daughter

Daughter

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, Yang Huiyan

Yang Huiyan

Yang Huiyan is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and one of the wealthiest people in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion USD as of March 2009...

) have been the wealthiest people in Mainland China, who own about the assets of 45.5 billion Chinese Yuan

Chinese yuan

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 currently.

The Country Garden Group was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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 on April 2007. Lee Shau Kee

Lee Shau Kee

Lee Shau-kee GBM is a property developer and majority owner of Henderson Land Development , a property conglomerate with interests in properties, hotels, restaurants and internet services...

 and Cheng Yu-Tung

Cheng Yu-tung

Cheng Yu-tung GBM is a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive business dealings and real estate interests in both Hong Kong and Macau. He owns the privately-held Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, a conglomerate which operates the Sheraton Marina hotel and controls the publicly listed New World group...

, from the same town as Yang (Shunde), bought 1 billion of Country Garden IPO stocks respectively. There was much investment interest from Hong Kong.
Yang is the chairman of the company nominally. However, and his daughter's majority interest is held on behalf of the family. Yang is still active in company management and has not yet decided to retire.