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Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin sentenced to life in prison in China

China
First seen: Aug 20, 2026, 5:17 AM UTCUpdated: Aug 20, 2026, 9:16 AM UTC

Xu Jiayin, founder of China Evergrande, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in China. The headlines link the case to the country’s property crisis.

The sentence is a consequential development involving one of the central figures in China’s property crisis, with potential implications for confidence in the troubled real-estate sector.

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