Founder of the property developer Evergrande, 恒大, which made him China's richest man in 2017 and owned a top football club. Evergrande defaulted on its debts in 2021, and he was detained in 2023.
His parents gave him the childhood name 工厂, 'factory'. He failed the first restored 高考 in 1977, passed in 1978, studied metallurgy in Wuhan and spent about ten years at a Henan steel works before going into property.
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In Cantonese and Hong Kong media typically romanized 'Hui Ka Yan.' Mandarin pinyin Xǔ Jiāyìn is the form used in mainland business press.
