Xu Jiayin on Corporate Governance

Xu Jiayin's China Evergrande yan pleaded guilty in April to several charges, including embezzlement of assets and corporate bribery.

Xu Jiayin's role is documented as: founder; former Chairman and Communist Party Committee Secretary of Evergrande Group Sentenced to life imprisonment with lifetime revocation of political rights and confiscation of all personal property by the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court on August 20, 2026; last publicly seen at his April 2026 trial, having not appeared in public since his 2023 detention (research date: 2026-08-23).

China's securities regulator separately fined Xu $6.6 million in 2024 and imposed a lifetime securities-market ban after finding Evergrande had committed disclosure-related violations, according to the Guardian's April 2026 report.