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How China's richest woman made $2 billion in just four days

Yang, the controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $25.6 billion as of January 5 to rank as the fifth-richest person in China

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Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam Bloomberg
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, the controlling shareholder of Country Garden, saw her fortune soar to $25.6 billion as of January 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 6.9 per cent on Monday in Hong Kong trading, taking its year-to-date-gain to more than 16 per cent.

The 36-year-old Yang is China’s

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