【wsj又造谣曾伟国外买豪宅开神秘公司】A Home Fit for a Princeling

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577011721834467812.html



This property, overlooking Sydney Harbor in Australia, was purchased for $32.4 million by the son of a former vice president of China.


正文：
By DINNY MCMAHON

Besides cuddly koalas and the Sydney Opera House, Australia's biggest city now has another draw for Chinese tourists: driving by the $32.4 million property owned by a son of a former vice president of China.

Nestled high on a hill, above a towering sandstone wall and overlooking Sydney Harbor, the 100-year-old residence boasts some of the best views in the Emerald City. The street, Wolseley Road, was ranked the ninth most expensive in the world in a survey by Financial News.

Zeng Wei, the 43-year-old son of Zeng Qinghong, once one of the most powerful men in the Chinese Communist Party, bought the property with his wife, Jiang Mei, at the end of 2008, according to a government property database and other confirming data.The following year, they applied to tear the old house down and build a new $5 million mansion, launching a drawn-out battle with the local council. (It was the property's exquisite site that drove the purchase price above $30 million. The figures come from local government documents and a commercial data provider that tracks Australian property prices.)The plans were revised several times after objections from neighbors. A local court eventually found in favor of the development, but only after a shift in plans that had called for one swimming pool to cascade into another to form a waterfall along the house's front. One of the swimming pools was dropped.The elder Mr. Zeng, long the right-hand man to former President Jiang Zemin, was a member of China's peak political body, the Politburo Standing Committee, for five years until 2007. Before that, he headed the powerful Organization Department, which is responsible for deciding who gets which political posts.
The source of his son and daughter-in-law's fortune is unclear. Ms. Jiang, 39, studied at the Beijing Dance Academy and, following a stint in television, started working for the Chinese property developer Renhe Group. There she "is responsible for assisting…executive directors to formulate…strategies" and is a board director, according to the 2010 annual report of Renhe's Hong Kong-listed unit, Renhe Commercial Holdings Co. Last year, the report says, she was paid 817,000 yuan ($128,000).Both Ms. Jiang and Mr. Zeng are also directors of an Australia-registered company called Fruit Master International Ltd. Public documents don't disclose what the company does, and its accountant declined to comment.The company's four other board members include one of China's richest men, Renhe Chairman Dai Yongge, his wife and his sister, Xiuli Hawken, with whom he helped to found Renhe. Ms. Hawken, now a U.K. resident, has been ranked by Forbes as the 15th-richest person in the U.K., worth $2.2 billion.Efforts to reach Mr. Zeng through his lawyer and architect and through Fruit Master's accountant in Sydney failed. Media representatives from Renhe Commercial said they were unable to contact Ms. Jiang for this article.Write to Dinny McMahon at dinny.mcmahon@wsj.com

草莓苟菊

标题改了？手挺快嘛

中国海参崴

草莓苟菊 发表于 2011-11-29 19:26
标题改了？手挺快嘛

开始觉得应该注意点。

但后来百度查了一下，原来上年就有大概的报道了，到现在都没删。

所以我都怀疑是不是wsj那个白吃在百度找到文章然后再翻译过去的。

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看不懂谁翻译一下？