62 years ago today, on November 14, 1963 (September 29, 1963 lunar calendar), Pan Shiyi, a famous real estate developer, was born. In 1995, Pan Shiyi and his wife Zhang Xin co-founded SOHO China Co., Ltd. Pan Shiyi, male, was born on November 14, 1963 in Tianshui, Gansu Province. He is a famous real estate developer and the chairman of SOHO China. The company is in charge of the development of commercial real estate in China. After graduating from university, he worked for the Ministry of Petroleum of the People's Republic of China and started his real estate development career in Shenzhen and Hainan in 1987. In 1992, Pan Shiyi and his partners co-founded Beijing Wantong Industrial joint stock company to develop real estate in Beijing. In 1995, Pan Shiyi and his wife Zhang Xin co-founded SOHO China Co., Ltd. On November 11, 2013, an anonymous person pointed out that Pan Shiyi would withdraw his investment from Shanghai, accounting for 75% of the total SOHO. Pan Shiyi denied this. On July 24, 2014, the SOHO China Foundation donated $15 million to Harvard University, which caused a huge controversy. On October 29, 2014, SOHO China signed a donation agreement with Yale University, donating $15 million to Yale University. Personal experience Born on November 14, 1963 in Panjizhai Village, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. His father was labeled a "rightist", and his grandfather was a Kuomintang officer who graduated from Huangpu Military Academy. In the fall of 1977, his father was rehabilitated, and the family changed from a rural household registration to an urban household registration and moved to Qingshui County, Gansu Province. In 1979, he was admitted to Lanzhou Peili School (that is, the Peili campus of Lanzhou City University). In 1981, he graduated from Peili School and was admitted to China Petroleum Pipeline College (junior college) in Hebei with the second place among 600 students. (Eight days before the college entrance examination, Pan Shiyi was knocked off his shoulder blade by a truck. Knowing that he didn't do well, he immediately applied for secondary school under the name "Shiyi" in another county). In 1984, he graduated from China Petroleum Pipeline College and was assigned to the Economic Reform Research Office of the Pipeline Bureau of the Ministry of Petroleum in Langfang, Hebei. In 1987, he resigned and went to Shenzhen and Hainan, and then to Beijing, specializing in real estate development. In 1989, he came to Hainan Province with the same boss (Mu Zhongzhong). In 1990, together with Feng Lun, Wang Gongquan, and Zhang Mingeng, he established Hainan Agricultural High-tech Joint Development Corporation (the predecessor of Wantong) in Hainan Province. In August 1991, he established Wantong Company, borrowing more than 10 million yuan at high interest to speculate in real estate, and earning more than 10 million yuan in the second wave of economic boom in Hainan Province. In 1992, he co-founded Beijing Wantong Limited Liability Company in Beijing with his partners. In the same year, he co-founded Beijing Wantong Industrial Joint Stock Company and developed a series of real estate projects in Beijing, including Beijing Wantong New World Plaza, Air China Building, and Beijing Wantong Ideal World (now Xincheng International). On the eve of the Haikou real estate crash in August of the same year, Pan returned to the northwest to investigate market opportunities, and later went to Beijing to do market survey. In the Huairou County Government canteen, he accidentally heard that Beijing had given Huairou four directional proceeds raised joint-stock company indicators. Pan managed to obtain one of them and became the beginning of his fortune. In the same year, Vantone New World Plaza opened in Fuchengmen, and Deng Zhiren, chairperson of Hong Kong Lida Bank, approached Vantone and asked for an agent for sales. Deng Zhiren achieved the success of dropshipping through successful advertising and pricing strategies, selling Vantone New World Plaza to three times the market price at that time. In 1993, Pan Shiyi met Ren Zhiqiang, then the chairman of Huayuan Group, during the process of purchasing the Beijing Huayuan project. Pan Shiyi, who had first arrived in Beijing, learned from Ren Zhiqiang about real estate such as "seven links and one flat". The two later became close friends. In 1995, Pan Shiyi and his wife, Ms. Zhang Xin, co-founded SOHO China Co., Ltd. Since the establishment of the company, the two have jointly developed a series of commercial real estate projects. At the end of 1999, a long text "SOHO Modern City. Home Office. Cool.com" from the developer of Modern City appeared in many media, and the concept of SOHO was officially proposed. In early January 2001, advertisements for SOHO Modern City, which appeared in the avant-garde headlight image, appeared on a large scale. At the same time, a silver-gray cover and more than 100 pages of SOHO Modern City Building Book explained the three spaces of SOHO Modern City with a large number of photos, cartoons and illustrations. The style of "a little avant-garde and a little different" attracted the attention of the market, and the word SOHO began to be widely mentioned. In 2002, Mr. Pan Shiyi received widespread attention and popular coverage from many domestic and foreign media, including Time Magazine, CNN, CCTV, Wall Street Journal, and South China Morning Post. Time Magazine once reported that Pan Shiyi "Real estate developer Pan Shiyi has brought bright colors to China's always monotonous apartment and office buildings... Pan Shiyi's real estate has become international in taste." On October 8, 2007, SOHO China was successfully listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. On August 16, 2012, Pan Shiyi announced at the Hong Kong Performance Conference that SOHO China would leave the bulk sale model and instead hold valuable properties in Beijing and Shanghai. The company's future profits will also mainly come from rental income. From October 2013 to October 2018, Pan Shiyi served as a special monitor of the Beijing Higher People's Court, willing to go to work for those who have been wronged. I am willing to do what I can for the improvement of the legal system and social progress. On July 23, 2014, Pan Shiyi and his wife Zhang Xin visited Facebook. After the visit, Pan Shiyi said bluntly that "such a big boss doesn't even have a separate office, and he is crowded with young computer engineers." At the same time, the Facebook office in Weibo is like a school. On July 24 of the same year, Pan Shiyi and his wife visited Apple in the United States. Apple CEO Cook personally received and explained their new office building. Pan Shiyi said that there is a technology that can be adopted in China. When driving to the parking lot, the nearest parking space that can be parked will pop up on the iPhone.