Background and career
Sun Hongbin (Chinese: 孙宏斌; born 1963) is a Chinese-American businessman. He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.
Sun was born in Shanxi province in 1963. Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into Wuhan University in 2000) and graduated in 1981. He earned a Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985. Sun also attended a six-week advanced management program at Harvard Business School in 2000.
Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of Sunac, the Chinese property group. In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned. In October 2017 he was ordered to do "26 hours of re-education in corporate governance" after being censured for having broken the listing rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Sun has citizenship of the United States, and lives in Tianjin, China. He is married with two children.
Sources
Net-worth figure: Celebrity Net Worth (October 2026), in USD. Biography and career facts: the person's Wikipedia article and linked reporting. Snapshot date for all StarWorth figures: 28 October 2026.
