Song Weiping (), is a Chinese real estate tycoon and

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

. He is the co-founder and president of Greentown China.

Career

Song was born in

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Shaoxing Shaoxing is a prefecture-level city on the southern shore of Hangzhou Bay in northeastern Zhejiang province, China. Located on the south bank of the Qiantang River estuary, it borders Ningbo to the east, Taizhou, Zhejiang, Taizhou to the south ...

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province in 1958. 1982, he graduated from the Department of History,

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(current

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). 1982-1987, he taught in a party school. 1987, he went to

Zhuhai Zhuhai; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Jyūhói''; Chinese postal romanization, also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern ...

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, and worked in a computer company as a secretary.宋卫平_新浪网
/ref> In 1994, Song returned to Hangzhou, he founded Greentown China, a real estate company, with his wife Xia Yibo (夏一波). China Greentown is a leading real estate company in Zhejiang,

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and

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. He also founded the football club, Hangzhou Greentown F.C. According to

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's 2013 China Rich List, Song and his wife were ranked No. 212 in China with a net worth of US$1.22 billion.

References

External links

Song Weiping's profile at Sohu Finance
{{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Weiping 1967 births Living people Businesspeople from Shaoxing People from Shengzhou Billionaires from Zhejiang Zhejiang University alumni Hangzhou University alumni Chinese businesspeople in real estate Chinese football chairmen and investors