Wang Shi (entrepreneur)

Wang Shi (Chinese: 王石; pinyin: Wáng Shí, born 1951) is a Chinese businessman. In 1984, he founded China Vanke. Following Vanke's shareholding reform in 1988, he served as chairman and general manager, and from 1999 to 2017 as chairman, after which he became honorary chairman. In 2011, Wang was named by Fortune as one of "Fifteen Business Leaders Who've Changed China." Since 2011, he has largely withdrawn from the day-to-day management of Vanke and, throughout the 2010s, pursued visiting study programs abroad. In the 2020s, he became active in venture capital and private equity, with a focus on the environmental sector.