Yu Huijiao | |
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Nationality | People's Republic of China |
Occupation | Chairman |
Employer | Shanghai YTO Express |
Spouse(s) | Chinese: 张小娟; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎojuān |
Yu Huijiao (Chinese: 喻会蛟; pinyin: Yù Huìjiāo) is the founder and chairman of YTO Express (Chinese: 圆通快递), a Chinese express courier service.
After the failure of his architecture firm, Yu founded a courier service to help pay his bankruptcy bills. Initially, he and his wife had 15 employees who delivered packages by bicycle in Tonglu County, near Hangzhou. As of 2017[update], YTO Express employs over 22 thousand people across mainland China and Hong Kong, with an annual net income of 1.4 billion RMB (~US$213 million). Yu remains chairman of the company.[1][2][3]
According to Forbes, Yu is personally worth US$3.4 billion as of 2017; however, the combined wealth of his immediate family is US$7.5 billion.[4][5] Forbes listed Yu's wife, Zhang Xiaojuan (Chinese: 张小娟), as the 12th richest self-made female billionaire in the world.[6]