Sun Piaoyang
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Sun Piaoyang

China 67 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Pharmaceuticals
Industry
Healthcare
Residence
Lianyungang, Jiangsu
Education
China Pharmaceutical University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Nanjing University (Doctorate)
Marital Status
Married
Children
1

Assets

  • Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine
    1,426,897,000 shares @ -
    -
    600276-CN

Biography

Sun Piaoyang is the chairman of Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals. He has turned a formerly state-led business into one of China's largest producers of anti-infection and tumor-treating medicines.

He became the head of the state-led company in 1990 when he was 32 years old.

After taking Hengrui public in Shanghai in 2000, Sun led the firm to complete a Hong Kong listing in 2025, raising $1.3 billion.

Sun's wife Zhong Huijuan, also a billionaire, is the chairman and CEO of Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group, a drug maker that listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2019.

Their daughter, Sun Yuan, is Hansoh's executive director.