Linda WONG

   

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Founder & Chairperson, Yihai Group

Ms. Linda Wong currently holds the office of Chairwoman of Board of Directors at Yihai Group and Yihai Education Group, she is a member of Standing Committee of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese,Vice-chairwoman ofChina Association for Non-Government Education,Special Council of Chinese National Council of UNESCO. Vice-chairwoman of Education committee of National Committee on United States-China Relations, Executive Vice-chairwoman of China Federation of Overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, Vice-chairwoman of China Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs Association and lifetime Chancellor of Beichuan Middle School in Sichuan Province.

The Yihai Group,she founded has developed more than 8 million square meters of real estate in total, and works in various industries such as education management, property management, financial investment, business operation and health regimens.She is an advocate for education and the first in Beijing to bring elite schools into communities and to start the idea of community education. She has set up 12 educational institutions in China. Being passionate about charitable activities, she was awarded “China Charity Prize”which is the highest prize in this field of China and named Top 10 Philanthropists in China Philanthropy List, both for four consecutive years. She was also named “National Top 10 social commonweal stars”, awarded “Special Contribution Award on reconstruction of Beichuan Middle School”. She showed advocacy in responding positively to Chinese National Policies like “The Belt and Road Initiatives”. With her help, the city of Harbin,China and the city of Uzice,Serbia established a friendly relationship as International Sister Cities, for which she was awarded Special Contribution Award by the city of Uzice. To supportthe strategy of “Integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions” and to developfurther business operations in Hebei Province, she signed Educational Strategic Co-operation Frame Agreement with the city of Baoding,China.She took the initiative in China-US civil diplomacy, for three consecutive years she funded students from PECASE program to come to China, made a contribution of 6 million to China-US Teacher Exchange Program.