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Sabrina Meng Wanzhou and Annabel Yao: Huawei founder’s two daughters

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Telecoms entrepreneur Ren Zhengfei’s children, born 25 years apart to different mothers, have taken their names rather than hisThe practice is not uncommon among China’s elite – late premier Zhao Ziyang’s daughter, who set up an auction house, didn’t take his name either
Neither daughter bears their father’s surname – and a quick look at the family tree offer clues as to why that is.
Ren, born in China’s poorest province, Guizhou, in the country’s southwest, has married three times.
His first wife was Meng Jun, daughter of a former senior official in Sichuan province, Meng Dongbuo; she bore Ren, who is now 74 years old, two children: Meng Wanzhou (who has also been referred to as Cathy Meng, including in a 2013 The New York Times report) and a son, Meng Ping.

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