Yang is the owner of Yareton Investment & Management and president of its parent company,Shanghai Minqiang Investment Group. In Shanghai, Yang’s company built the Shanghai Mingde Grand Hotel, a five-star hotel in the city’s commercial center; and Hui Yang Plaza, a 1-million-square-foot commercial complex that recently opened. In the United States, Yareton is building the Four Points by Sheraton, Seattle Airport South in Des Moines, which is scheduled to open in late summer 2015.
That project is Yareton’s first in the United States, and is being partially financed through the federal government’s Immigrant Investor Progran, also known as “EB-5” for employment-based fifth category.