Wang Wenliang
Wang Wenliang (Chinese: 王文良, born 1954) bom Penglai, Shandong, is a Chinese entrepreneur and political figure of the People's Republic of China, a member of the Chinese Overseas Chinese Federation, and vice chairman of the Liaoning Overseas Chinese Federation. He was the chairman for privately held China Rilin Construction Group.[1] He was a member of the 12th National People's Congress, but was removed from it over allegations of vote fraud.[2] He is or was chair of Dandong Port Group. As of 2017, he was worth $1.2 billion USD per Forbes.[1]
He served on the board of governors of New York University and made a large donation to it.[3][4][5]
Early on, I worked at the Dandong municipal government before entering the business world in the early 1990s. Served as Chairman and President of Rilin Construction Group Corporation from February 2005. In 2005, Rilin Construction Group formally took control of Dandong Port Group, with Wang Wenliang serving as its chairman. In 2012, he earned an honorary doctorate in business administration from the University of South Carolina in the United States. In 2013, I was elected as a National People's[6] Congress representative. In 2016, the election was deemed invalid on suspicion of bribery.[7] His nephew Zhong Dan served as a diplomat at the Chinese Consulate General in New York and the Chinese Embassy in the United States from 2001 to 2009, and was found guilty by a jury in New York of all five charges against him. On Friday, a 12-member jury in the Eastern District of New York ruled that Zhong Dan was guilty of conspiring to force labor, forced labor, concealing documents related to forced labor, conspiring to smuggle foreigners, and conspiring to commit visa fraud.[8]
References
- 1 2 "Wang Wenliang". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
- ↑ Forsythe, Michael (2016-09-14). "An Unlikely Crime in One-Party China: Election Fraud". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Story, Louise; Saul, Stephanie (2015-02-07). "Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2021-09-04. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Rust, Bob. "Port tycoon Wang Wenliang purged | TradeWinds". TradeWinds. Archived from the original on 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ Zullo, Robert. "Who is Wang Wenliang, Chinese businessman who donated to McAuliffe?". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
- ↑ [永久失效链接]
- ↑ 受权发布:全国人民代表大会常务委员会公告 〔十二届〕第二十一号. 新华网. 2016-09-13 [2016-09-13]. （原始内容存档于2016-09-13）.
- ↑ 前中国外交官钟丹5项罪名全部成立. 美国之音. [2019年3月23日 08:13]. （原始内容存档于2020年11月7日）.
External links
- "全国人大代表信息-王文良" [National People's Congress Information-Wang Wenliang . National People's Congress Network. [ 2013-03-28 ]]. 全国人大网. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
- "受权发布:全国人民代表大会常务委员会公告 〔十二届〕第二十一号" [Authorized to publish: Announcement of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress [12th] No. 21.] (in Chinese). Xinhuanet. 新华网. 2016-09-13. Archived from the original on 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
- "前中国外交官钟丹5项罪名全部成立" [Former Chinese diplomat Zhong Dan was convicted of all five counts] (in Chinese). Voice of America. 美国之音. Retrieved 2019-03-23.