Name Kelly Zong Role Businesswoman | ||
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Education Pepperdine University (2004) | ||
Parents Shi Youzhen, Zong Qinghou | ||
Kelly Fuli Zong (Chinese: 宗馥莉, 1982.01.15－) is a Chinese businesswoman. She is the only daughter of Wahaha Company Founder Zong Qinghou.
Zong is the purchasing manager at Wahaha and controls about 80 percent of the company of Hangzhou Wahaha Group along with her mother Shi Youzhen and father Zong Qinghou, the third richest man in China.
Biography
Zong left China for the United States to attend high school, and went on to graduate from Pepperdine University in 2004. She naturalized as a United States citizen, and spent some time living with her mother in San Marino, California. However, Chinese media reported in 2007 that she was in the process of applying to renounce U.S. citizenship. A notice confirming her loss of citizenship was published in the United States government's Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate in November 2010.
