Zhang Xin

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Full Name	Zhang Xin
Occupation	Chief Executive Officer
Date Of Birth	Aug 24, 1965(1965-08-24)
Age	59
Birthplace	Beijing
Country	People's Republic of China
Horoscope	Capricorn

Zhang Xin Biography

Zhang Xin is one of the most popular and richest Chief Executive Officer who was born on August 24, 1965 in Beijing, People's Republic of China. In the 1950s, Zhang Xin’s parents, second generation Burmese Chinese, left Burma and immigrated to China. There, they worked as translators at the Foreign Languages Press. They separated during the Cultural Revolution.

Upon graduation, Zhang was hired by Barings PLC, which had scouted Cambridge for students with knowledge of privatization in China, and which hired Zhang on the strength of her master’s thesis on the topic. She returned to Hong Kong to work, but in 1993 her unit at Barings was acquired by Goldman Sachs, and Zhang was transferred to New York City, where she helped bring privatized Chinese factories to the public stock exchange. Intrigued by China’s burgeoning urbanization, she returned to her hometown, Beijing, where she met and married her husband—who purportedly proposed just four days after they met, in 1994. She co-founded Hongshi (meaning Red Stone), which became SOHO China, with her husband Pan Shiyi in 1995.

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.

In 1987, while still studying in London, she earned a scholarship that enabled her to begin studying economics at the University of Sussex, where she received a bachelor’s degree. In 1992, she graduated with a master’s degree in development economics from Cambridge University, where she wrote her master’s thesis on privatization in China. In 2013, Zhang received an honorary doctorate from her first alma mater, the University of Sussex.

Zhang Xin Net Worth

Zhang Xin is one of the richest Chief Executive Officer from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zhang Xin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Beijing in 1965, Zhang remained with her mother after the separation of her parents, moving with her mother to Hong Kong at the age of 15, living with her mother in a room just big enough for two bunk beds. To save for an education abroad, she worked for five years in small factories that made garment and electronic products. By 19, she had saved enough for airfare to London and supporting herself for English study at a secretarial school in Oxford. To support herself in the UK, she “worked in a traditional British fish and chip shop run by a Chinese couple”, and took on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a role model, while also developing a “fascination with left-wing British intellectuals”.

Zhang Xin (simplified Chinese: 张欣 ; traditional Chinese: 張欣 ; pinyin: Zhāng Xīn , also known as Xin Zhang and Xin “Shynn” Zhang, born 1965) 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.

In 1994, the couple began a mixed-use development project on unwanted land, called “New Town”. Over the next decade, they began six additional development projects in China, including a residential development in Boao, on the island of Hainan, and the Commune by the Great Wall (Chinese: 长城脚下的公社 ), a managed boutique hotel in Beijing featuring the works of twelve Asian architects recruited by Zhang. Early in their marriage and business relationship, the couple experienced friction due to differing ideas of how the business should be run, leading Zhang to return to England for a time to reflect. Eventually, she decided to return to her husband, but left the business for a time, returning to focus on the design end when business increased.

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Who is Zhang Xin Dating?

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In 2014, Zhang and her husband launched a $100 million charitable initiative, the SOHO China Scholarships, “to fund disadvantaged Chinese students at top institutions across the globe”, including gifts of over $10 million to Yale University and over $15 million to Harvard University; the gifts engendered some controversy among critics who felt that the money could have been spent improving schools in China.

Facts & Trivia

Zhang Ranked on the list of most popular Chief Executive Officer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Zhang Xin celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.

What did Zhang Xin do?

SOHO China CEO Xin (Shynn) Zhang is one of China’s most celebrated women entrepreneurs. Since co-founding SOHO China in 1995, she has led the company to become one of country’s largest developers of prime office property with over 60 million square feet of projects in Beijing and Shanghai.

Where is Zhang Xin now?

Top Reasons why Zhang Xin is Extraordinary She then completed her master’s from Cambridge University. She’s currently the CEO of SOHO Beijing , the largest real estate developer in China. She is now the chairwoman of Tech For China Board of Directors.

What is Zhang Xin worth?

Now, together with her husband Pan Shiyi, her net worth is around $3.3 billion. She’s regularly named one of the top businesswomen in the world and her real estate company SOHO China is credited with bringing color to Beijing’s cityscape.

What did Zhang Xin study?

In 1992, she graduated with a master’s degree in development economics from Cambridge University, where she wrote her master’s thesis on privatization in China. In 2013, Zhang received an honorary doctorate from her first alma mater, the University of Sussex.

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As a result, although Taiwan was recognized as a country by the United Nations from 1949 to 1971, it is currently not in the UN and is classified as only a territory —all due to a particularly prickly political situation with China.