Top 12 wealthiest Chinese women 2011
- By Zhang Junmian China.org.cn, October 10, 2011
He Qiaonv & family (何巧女夫妇)
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He Qiaonv & family [sina.com.cn] |
2011 net worth (US$): 1.68 billion
2010 net worth (US$): 1.7 billion
General ranking: 50
Company: Beijing Orient Landscape Co., Ltd
Headquarters: Beijing
Title: Chairwoman
Main focus: Landscape architecture
He Qiaonv graduated with a bachelor's degree from Beijing Forestry University in 1988. She made her first fortune in 1990 when she helped her father, a businessman who traded flora and seedlings, to promote miniature landscaping to foreign businesses during an expo. She then grew her wealth by cultivating and selling flora, leasing bonsai landscape and house plants to five-star hotels, and undertaking large-scale real estate landscaping projects.
In 2000, He developed her former Orient Landscape Service Center into the powerful Beijing Orient Landscape Group, which specializes in landscape design, landscaping projects, landscape maintenance, sales of related construction materials and equipment, investment and asset management. Together with her husband, Tang Kai, she owns a 65.11 percent stake in the company.