BackgroundYan Cheung was born in Guangdong Province. Daughter of an army officer, she was the eldest of eight children. After studying financial accounting she found work as an accountant at an overseas paper-products trading company. It was during her time there that she got the idea of starting her own business. She moved to Hong Kong in 1985 and used the $4,000 she had saved to set up a wastepaper importing
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Native of Guangdong Province Yan Cheung is founder and director of the family firm Nine Dragons Paper Holdings, a recycling company that buys scrap paper from the United States, imports it to China, and recycles it mainly as cardboard for boxes that carry Chinese exports. Nine Dragons Paper Holdings is China's biggest paper maker.
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