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Asia’s richest woman loses half her $24bn fortune in China property crisis

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Asia’s wealthiest woman has lost more than half her fortune over the past year as the crisis engulfing China’s real estate sectorcontinues to worsen, a billionaire index showed on Thursday.

Yang Huiyan, a majority shareholder in China’s biggest property developer Country Garden, saw her net worth plunge by more than 52% to $11.3bn from $23.7bn a year ago, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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In a sign that the crisis is spreading to developers previously thought to be rock solid, Yang’s fortune took a major hit on Wednesday when the Guangdong-based Country Garden’s Hong Kong-listed shares fell 15% after the company announced it would sell new shares to raise cash.

Yang inherited her wealth when her father – Country Garden founder Yang Guoqiang – transferred his shares to her in 2005, according to state media.

She became Asia’s richest woman two years later after the developer’s initial public offering in Hong Kong.

But she is now barely holding on to that title, with chemical fibres tycoon Fan Hongwei a close runner-up with a net worth of $11.2bn on Thursday.

Chinese authorities cracked down on excessive debt in the property sector in 2020, leaving major players such as Evergrande and Sunac struggling to make payments and forcing them to renegotiate with creditors as they teetered on the edge of bankruptcy.

Buyers across the country, furious at lagging construction and delayed deliveries of their properties, have begun withholding mortgage payments for homes sold before completion.

While Country Garden has remained relatively unscathed by industry turmoil, it spooked investors with an announcement on Wednesday that it planned to raise more than $343m through a share sale, partly to pay debts.

Proceeds from the sale would be used for “refinancing existing offshore indebtedness, general working capital and future development purposes”, Country Garden said in a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange.

China’s banking regulator has urged lenders to support the property sector and meet the “reasonable financing needs” of firms as analysts and policymakers fear financial contagion.

The property sector is estimated to account for 18-30% of the country’s GDP and is a key driver of growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

Analysts have warned that the industry is mired in a “vicious cycle” that would further dampen consumer confidence, following the release of dismal Q2 growth figures that were the worst since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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