About Speaker

Mr. Ning Yuan began his career with CSCEC in 1988 and became president of China Construction America (CCA), CSCEC’s subsidiary in the Americas, in 2001. He has more than 20 years of experience in international business with significant expertise in construction and real estate. Leveraging his entrepreneurial acumen and relentless pursuit of excellence, Mr. Yuan successfully led CCA’s transformation from a small company of just 12 employees in 2000 to a highly competitive and well-recognized player in the US construction and real estate market. CCA is now the 37th-largest general contractor and the 10th-largest bridge contractor in the United States and ranked the Top 25 Contractors in General Building. It is also the second-largest builder in South Florida and fourth-largest builder in New York City. Under Mr. Yuan’s leadership, CCA has completed more than 1,000 projects, many of which have garnered prestigious awards, including the Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Award, Lu Ban Award, Construction Achievement Project of the Year Award by the American Society of Civil Engineering, Project of the Year by New York State Society of Professional Engineers, Top 10 Bridges award by the Roads & Bridges Magazine, Award of Merit by ENR and the Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award. In 2014, Mr. Yuan led and completed CCA’s acquisition of Plaza Construction, which has enhanced CCA’s building division and put the company in a stronger competitive position in the United States. As a leader with vision, he successfully expanded CCA’s business into The Bahamas and Panama and aims to have CCA expand into other countries in the Americas. Mr. Yuan also initiated and succeeded in establishing CCA’s real estate and infrastructure investment and development platforms to serve the company’s business expansion in the Americas. With a portfolio of $1.5 billion, CCA has created thousands of jobs. In addition to being a successful businessman, Mr. Yuan is a keen educator. Committed to supporting initiatives that promote the delivery of quality education to youth, he travels to Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and other prestigious universities to mentor young, talented people with his inspirational experience. In 2011, Mr. Yuan assumed the office of chairman of China General Chamber of Commerce-U.S.A. During his tenure, he demonstrated his commitment to fostering business exchanges between China and the United States and having a greater impact on the economic and business cooperation between China and the United States, which contributed to his reelection in 2014. He continues to serve the chamber as vice chairman. Mr. Yuan holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Zhejiang University in China and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. He received the Asian Entrepreneur Excellence Award from the Asian American Business Development Center and the China Business Leadership Award from the US–China Policy Foundation. In addition to Mandarin Chinese, he is fluent in English, German and Russian.