ZHANG YIN
1957–
Known in China as the Queen of Trash, Zhang Yin—who also goes by her Cantonese name, Cheung Yan—made her fortune by buying up wastepaper and recycling it into paperboard to create packaging for exported goods. She owns the largest paper mill in the world.
Born Zhang Xiuhua (she later changed her name to Yin) in 1957, the eldest of eight children, Zhang had to begin working at an early age when her father was imprisoned during China’s Cultural Revolution. She worked as a bookkeeper in a textile factory and studied accounting at a trade school, before taking a managerial position at ...
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