Chanchai Ruayrungruang (born 1954), also known as Yan Bin, is a Chinese-Thai

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businessman and CEO of the privately held

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. Ruayrungruang was born in the

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. He emigrated to Thailand in the 1980s, where he founded the Reignwood Group before moving the company back to China in 1990. Ruayrungruang lives in

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, China. In the mid 1990s, he acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute

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in China through a joint venture with members of the Yoovidhya family.

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