The Wen Family Empire

ZHANG BEILI

WEN JIABAO

WEN JIAHONG AND WIFE

YANG XIAOMENG AND PARENTS

WEN YUNSONG

ZHANG JIANMING

ZHANG JIANKUN

WANG ZHUANGLI

YU JIANMING

$74 million

Worked for a diamond

company linked to Zhang Beili.

A shareholder in several Wen

family-related companies.

$1 million*

$75 million

$1.4 billion*

$14 billion

$1.3 billion

$176 million

$416 million

$110 million

$1 million

$120 million

KEY

YANG ZHIYUN

Worked at Credit

Suisse. Held

shares of a

Chinese jewelry

company called

Gallop.

The richest man in Hong

Kong for much of the last

decade, with a net worth

of $22 billion. He controls

the Hong Kong

conglomerate Hutchison

Whampoa.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Dalian

Hong Kong

Beijing

LI

KA-SHING

Hong Kong’s

second-richest man.

Controls New World

Development, with real

estate, infrastructure and

retail business holdings,

including the world’s

biggest jewelry store

chain, Chow Tai Fook.

CHENG

YU-TUNG

The former chief executive

of the CDC Corporation, a

Chinese technology

company. One of its major

shareholders was New

World Development, which

is controlled by the Hong

Kong tycoon Cheng

Yu-tung.

PETER

YIP

Wealthy businessman

from northern China

who controls Dalian

Haichang. Has interests

in chemicals, plastics

and diamonds. Forbes

puts his net worth at

$770 million.

QU

NAIJIE

Also known as Vincent

Cheng. A reclusive

philanthropist and

business associate of the

Hong Kong tycoon Cheng

Yu-tung. Once controlled

three investment vehicles

with 300 million shares in

Ping An.

ZHENG

JIANYUAN

One of China’s wealthiest

women and the founder

of Taihong, the Great

Ocean Group and Airport

City Logistics. Her

Kaifeng Foundation gives

to Harvard University and

Beijing’s Tsinghua

University.

DUAN

WEIHONG

Also known as Yang Xiu’an, the

90-year-old mother owned

investments in Ping An

Insurance worth $120 million.

Control energy, engineering and waste

treatment companies; his wife held a

major stake in Ping An.

An expert in gems and a force in

the nation’s diamond trade. She

met Wen Jiabao while both were

working as government geologists

in Gansu Province.

Invested in diamond

companies with his

sister's colleagues.

Former government bureaucrat who

invested in diamond companies

backed by his sister, as well as real

estate and highway infrastructure.

Hold shares in family-related

companies, including a company that

owns part of Union Mobile Pay. Parents

once held big Ping An stake.

Holds engineering degrees, and

an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s

Kellogg School of Business.

Co-founder of New Horizon

Capital. Chairman of China

Satellite Communications.

Worked briefly at McKinsey in Los Angeles. Co-founded

the private equity firm New Horizon Capital. Helps control

a string of investment vehicles tied to the Wen family.

PRIME MINISTER OF CHINA

Nicknamed Grandpa Wen

because of his concern for

the underprivileged, he has

called official corruption a

threat to the ruling

Communist Party.