2006中国新首富：“造纸女王”张茵_ Fro（英语故事）.docVIP

2006中国新首富：“造纸女王”张茵_ Fro（英语故事） 2006中国新首富：造纸女王张茵 China’s Richest Woman: From Waste to Wealth 背景资料： 10月11日，《观澜湖2006胡润百富榜》在上海揭晓，相关内容刊登在《胡润百富》杂志上。 49岁的张茵拥有财富270亿元，成为中国第一位女首富，也是世界上最富有的女白手起家者。 今年49岁的张茵，出身于军人家庭，祖籍山东，生在东北，幼时家境清贫，是家里八个子女中的老大。她很晚才有机会进入大学深造，之后在深圳一家企业工作。 完成学业后，她在工厂做过工业会计，并在深圳信托下属的一个合资企业里担任财务工作，之后在一家香港贸易公司做包装纸的业务。 安稳的工作并没有阻碍她不安分的天性。1985年，张茵只身带了3万元到香港开始废纸回收贸易。 这次创业，无意中抓住了上世纪80年代中国造纸原料市场的空白。此后的6年中，她在广东东莞建立了自己的独资工厂东莞中南纸业有限公司，主要生产生活用纸，产品遍及全国各地，并在国内广泛投资造纸。 在完成了初步的资本积累之后，1990年，张茵与丈夫刘名中做出决定，把事业迁往世界最大的原材料市场美国，在那里建立了美国中南公司，为其在中国的工厂购买并提供可回收废纸。 此后10年间，张茵成立的美国中南有限公司先后建起了7家打包厂和运输企业，成为真正的废纸回收大王。 目前中南控股已是全球最大纸原料出口商，年出口超过500万吨，并以年均30%的速度递增，业务遍及美国、欧洲、亚洲等，在美国各行业的出口货柜数量排名中位列第一。 As night falls on the town of Mayong in south China’s Guangdong Province, container trucks emblazoned with the logo Nine Dragons Paper, a local household name, take to the streets. Long after most people have gone home for the night the Nine Dragons Paper factory is still ablaze with lights. We run around the clock. I’ve never seen a slack period since I worked here, says a company manager, adding that orders had already piled up into December for the firm’s packaging products, which are used by companies like Coca Cola, Nike, Sony, Haier and TCL. Waste paper is the foundation of the wealth of Zhang Yin, the 49-year-old owner of the factory and its sister plant in the eastern Jiangsu Province. The first woman to top the Huran Report rich list in China, she has amassed an estimated fortune of 27 billion yuan by recycling scrap paper imported from the United States. And topping the rich list has made her even richer. The share price of her company jumped 2.77 percent on the good news, adding another 1.1 billion yuan to her assets. Wealthier than US television host Oprah Winfrey and author of the Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling, Zhang is described by acquaintances as a round-faced, not very tall woman who doesn’t like dressing up and looks like a person of action. Over the years, Zhang’s low p