Wang Jian (businessman)
Wang Jian (; 1961 – 3 July 2018) was a Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire. Together with Chen Feng, he was co-founder and co-chairman of Hainan Airlines and the affiliated conglomerate HNA Group, with assets worth US$230 billion in 2018. HNA was the world's 170th largest company by revenue in 2017 according to Fortune Global 500. Wang and Chen were HNA’s largest individual shareholders, with each owning about 15% of the company. He died from a likely accidental fall while travelling in France in July 2018. Biography Wang was born in Tianjin in 1961. He graduated from Civil Aviation University of China in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in aviation business management, and worked for the Civil Aviation Administration of China afterwards. He later received training at Japan Airlines on a scholarship from the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS), and earned an MBA from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands in 1995. In 1990, Wang partic ...
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Wang (surname)
Wang () is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the common Chinese surnames (''Wáng'') and (''Wāng''). It is currently the list of common Chinese surnames, most common surname in mainland China, as well as the most common surname in the world, with more than 107 million worldwide.
[Public Security Bureau Statistics: 'Wang' Found China's #1 'Big Family', Includes 92.88m People]." 24 Apr 2007. Accessed 27 Mar 2012. Wáng () was listed as 8th on the famous Song Dynasty list of the ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Wāng () was 104th of the ''Hundred Family Surnames''; it is currently the list of common Chinese surnames, 58th-most-common surname in mainland China. Wang is also a surname in several European countries.

Romanizations

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NH Hotel Group
NH Hotel Group is a Spanish multinational hotel company headquartered in Madrid, that operates over 350 hotels in 28 countries, currently under the Anantara, NH Collection, nhow Hotels, Tivoli, NH Hotels, Elewana Collection and Avani brands. The company is a subsidiary of a Thailand hotel group, Minors International. Operations NH Hotel Group offers luxury and up-scale modernly-furnished hotels, located primarily in Europe and Latin America. The company also manages luxury venues such as the prestigious Casino de Madrid. NH Hotel Group ranks third in the European ranking for business hotels. The group has 380 hotels in 29 countries with over 53,000 rooms. History NH ("Navarra Hoteles", named after the region in Spain) was founded in 1978 by Antonio Catalán. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, it made a series of acquisitions (Jolly in Italy, Krasnapolsky in the Netherlands, Astron in Germany) which increased its size to close to 400 hotels. In 2014, three brands were ...
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Giving Pledgers
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Airline Founders
An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an Air operator's certificate, air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or Air charter, charter operators. The List of airlines by foundation date, first airline was the German airship company DELAG, founded on November 16, 1909. The four oldest non-airship airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), Colombia's Avianca (1919), Australia's Qantas (1920) and the Czech Republic's Czech Airlines (1923). Airline ownership has seen a shift from mostly personal ownership until the 1930s to government-ownership of major airlines from the 1940s to ...
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Chinese Aviation Businesspeople
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Accidental Deaths In France
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Chinese Billionaires
The following are partial lists of the Forbes list of Chinese billionaires (converted into USD) and is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by ''Forbes'' magazine in 2022. In 2022 China had 607 billionaires which put the country second in the world, after the United States (735). Current richest Chinese billionaire is Zhong Shanshan, ranked as the eighth wealthiest man in the world as of March 11, 2022. 2022 Chinese billionaires top 100 list The hundred entrepreneurs billionaires are listed as follows, including their China rank (S#) and world rank (W#), citizenship, age, net worth, and source of wealth: See also * Forbes list of billionaires * Hurun Report * List of countries by the number of billionaires * List of wealthiest families References External links China Rich List Hurun Rich List– China's richest people (2020) by the Hurun Report {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Chinese by net worth People by net worth New worth Chinese Net ...
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HNA Group People
HNA may refer to: Companies and organizations * HNA Group, a Chinese conglomerate :* Hainan Airlines, a Chinese airline * Hafslund (company), a Norwegian power company * Harry N. Abrams, Inc., now Abrams Books, an American publisher * High North Alliance (Norwegian: '), an organization of fishing, whaling, and Nordic municipal councils * Hilti North America, a building support and maintenance company Transportation * Hanamaki Airport, serving Iwate Prefecture, Japan (IATA code ''HNA'') * Hawks Nest Airport, airport near Hawk's Nest Creek, The Bahamas * Hinton Admiral railway station, in Hampshire, England Other * Hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy * Hexose nucleic acid, synthesized by xenobiology researchers * Heeresnachrichtenamt, the Austrian Army Intelligence Office * Heslar Naval Armory, constructed in 1936 in Indianapolis, Indiana * '' Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine'', a German regional newspaper * Hina language, a Chadic language spoken in Northern Cameroon * Holy N ...
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Businesspeople From Tianjin
A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the purpose of generating cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital with a view to fueling economic development and growth. History Prehistoric period: Traders Since a "businessman" can mean anyone in industry or commerce, businesspeople have existed as long as industry and commerce have existed. "Commerce" can simply mean "trade", and trade has existed through all of recorded history. The first businesspeople in human history were traders or merchants. Medieval period: Rise of the merchant class Merchants emerged as a "class" in medieval Italy (compare, for example, the Vaishya, the traditional merchant caste in Indian society). Between 1300 and 1500, modern accoun ...
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Accidental Deaths From Falls
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Chinese Company Founders
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2018 Deaths
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