Yao Zhenhua

Yao Zhenhua is a Chinese billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Baoneng Group.

  • Yao Zhenhua was barely known before an insurer he controls started to buy shares in property developer China Vanke, where he holds a 25% stake.
  • Regulators unhappy with trading by Yao’s insurer Foresea Life in 2017 barred him from holding a position in the industry for a decade.
  • Yao founded Baoneng Group in 1992 as a retailing business; today it has more than 40 shopping malls around China and is involved in healthcare.