2024-05-01T18:59:41-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/76318017/meet-zhang-xin-a-chinese-real-estate-mogul-who-s-richer-than-oprah Archinect 2013-07-02T18:31:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e4/e4513603dae6780405a664a34769dced?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Zhang, a Chinese real estate developer, is the seventh richest self-made women in the world, worth $3.6 billion, according to Forbes. She's worth $800 million more than Oprah Winfrey, the world's best known self-made female billionaire. Not only does Zhang's rags-to-riches story mirror that of China itself, but it is Zhang who has shaped much of the country's modern urban landscape, with the logo of her company SOHO China, on the side of buildings wherever you turn in Beijing.</p></em><br /><br /><p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/8m/8m7c2a7se1tav3ak.jpg" title=""><br><em>Galaxy SOHO, designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid for Zhang' SOHO China, was built in 2012 on a 50,000 square meter plot in central Beijing. It was Hadid's first building in Beijing.</em></p>