Zhang Yining

Place: Shaoguan

Born: 1957

Biography:

Zhang Yin, also known as Cheung Yan, is a Chinese entrepreneur and one of the richest people in greater China. She is the founder and director of the family company Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited, a recycling company that buys scrap paper from the United States, imports it into China, and mainly turns it into cardboard for use in boxes to export Chinese goods. The company is China's biggest paper maker. In January 2007, it was reported that Zhang was also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a political advisory body for the Chinese government.