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Sun Hongbin (; born 1963) is a Chinese American real estate developer. He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of
Sunac Sunac China Holdings Limited, or Sunac (), is a major property developer headquartered in Tianjin, China. The company focuses on large-scale, medium to high-end property developments. It does not only focus on its home market of Tianjin, but also ...
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Early life

Sun was born in
Shanxi province Shanxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is ...
in 1963. Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into
Wuhan University Wuhan University (WHU; ) is a public research university in Wuhan, Hubei. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education. Wuhan university was founded as one of the four elite universities in the early republican period of China and i ...
in 2000) and graduated in 1981. He received a
Master of Engineering A Master of Engineering (abbreviated MEng, M.E. or M.Eng.) is either an academic or professional master's degree in the field of engineering. International variations Australia In Australia, the Master of Engineering degree is a research deg ...
from
Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...
in 1985. He attended a six-week advanced management program at
Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
in 2000.


Career

Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of
Sunac Sunac China Holdings Limited, or Sunac (), is a major property developer headquartered in Tianjin, China. The company focuses on large-scale, medium to high-end property developments. It does not only focus on its home market of Tianjin, but also ...
, the Chinese property group. In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned. In October 2017 he was ordered to do "26 hours of re-education in corporate governance" after being censured for having broken the listing rules of the
Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK, also known as Hong Kong Stock Exchange) is a stock exchange based in Hong Kong. As of the end of 2020, it has 2,538 listed companies with a combined market capitalization of HK$47 trillion. It is repor ...
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Personal life

Sun attains the
Citizenship of the United States Citizenship of the United States is a legal status that entails Americans with specific rights, duties, protections, and benefits in the United States. It serves as a foundation of fundamental rights derived from and protected by the Constituti ...
, and lives in
Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
, China. He is married with two children.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sun, Hongbin 1963 births Living people 20th-century Chinese businesspeople 21st-century Chinese businesspeople American billionaires American real estate businesspeople Businesspeople from Shanxi Chinese billionaires Chinese company founders Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese real estate businesspeople People from Yuncheng Tsinghua University alumni