With a net worth of $3.05 billion, Zhang Yin, a Chinese entrepreneur, is the wealthiest woman in the country.
Cheung Yan, also known as Zhang Yin, was born in Shaoguan, Guangdong, PRC, and started her career in a textile factory.
She moved to a paper trading company and noticed a lack of paper packaging manufacturing in China during that period.
In Hong Kong, she established her own paper packaging business in 1985.
After moving to Los Angeles five years ago, she and her husband established American Chung Nam, a paper exporting company that has become the largest paper exporter in the United States for the past 12 years.
She launched China’s largest papermaker, Nine Dragons Paper, in Hong Kong.
Nine Dragons procures scrap from the United States, transports it to China, recycles it, and transforms it into packaging for export to China.
The richest person in greater China is Zhang Yin.