Sun Hongbin
Chinese billionaire real estate developer
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Sun Hongbin (Chinese: 孙宏斌; born 1963) is a Chinese-American businessman.[1] He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.
Sun Hongbin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (UG) Tsinghua University (MEng) |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Founder, chairman and majority owner of Sunac |
| Spouse | Married |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
Sun was born in Shanxi province in 1963.[2]
Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into Wuhan University in 2000) and graduated in 1981.[3] He earned a Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985. Sun also attended a six-week advanced management program at Harvard Business School in 2000.[4][2]
Career
Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of Sunac, the Chinese property group.[5]
In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned.[5]
In October 2017 he was ordered to do "26 hours of re-education in corporate governance" after being censured for having broken the listing rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[5]
Personal life
Sun has citizenship of the United States, and lives in Tianjin, China.[4][2] He is married with two children.[2]