Li Jinyuan

Li Jinyuan (; born 1958) is a Chinese businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder, chief executive, and chairman of Tiens Group, a direct seller of healthcare products. He was featured on Forbes' 2011 list of the world's billionaires as the 24th richest person in China at that time.

Early life and education Li Jinyuan was born in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, in 1958. He has an MBA from Nankai University.

Career

Li founded Tiens Group, a direct seller of healthcare products, in Tianjin in 1995.

In 2011, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $1.2B US, The event required the booking of 140 hotels in Paris, and 7,600 tickets on France's high-speed TGV trains to transport his staff to the French coast where over 4,000 rooms were required in hotels in Monaco and Cannes. The visit was described by the International Business Times as an "expensive gesture" that demonstrated the "growing economic power of China".

Philanthropy According to Forbes, Li has created a Tiens Beijing International Charitable Foundation with an endowment of approximately $100 million and also provided $100 million to start a private school in Tianjin known as the Tianshi College which in 2011 enrolled over 3,000 students.

The Economic Times reported in 2016 that Li had "contributed generously to flood and tsunami-relief efforts and the fight against the SARS virus".