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 ...
.
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
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International variations
Australia
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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
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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
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.
Personal life
Sun attains the
Citizenship of the United States
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, 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
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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