Yang Rong

As of 2010 the company will enter a possible joint venture with Jianghuai Automobile selling parts in China for use in green technology vehicles. A Tianjin, Shandong province, production base will be complete by 2013, and while the original intent was to manufacture whole vehicles, this JV will only supply parts.

In the US, Yang has been involved with at least two businesses, Greentech Automotive and Hybrid Kinetic Motors. The latter is a hybrid vehicle company with an aim of manufacturing cars in Alabama, and the former planned to build all-electric vehicles in Mississippi. Hybrid Kinetic later dropped its Alabama plans due to a funding shortfall in 2009, and Yang has distanced himself from his other American venture, Greentech Automotive.

As of 2009 the possibility of producing Hybrid Kinetic vehicles at an undeveloped site in Baldwin County, Alabama, was discussed.

Here, plans for an auto factory fell through c. 2009 amid a weak American economy.

Some blame his immigration to the US on a failed bid to locate a production base in Ningbo. As Ningbo is near the rich coastal city of Shanghai, this was contrary to Chinese state policy encouraging economic growth in the poorer regions, and Yang incurred the wrath of the government of Liaoning in the attempt. In 2002 he was accused of embezzlement, and an arrest warrant was issued precipitating Yang's flight from the country.

After leaving China in 2002, Rong began a start-up car company in the United States, Hybrid Kinetic Motors Corporation (SEHK: 1188). While its desire to manufacture in the US did not come to fruition, in the early 2010s the company expressed interest in several Mainland China production base sites and in 2013 broke ground for a new facility in the Lianyungang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Lianyungang prefecture, which may produce batteries and become operational in 2018.

While Yang was in control, Brilliance Auto made a number of IPOs. These included listing a subsidiary on the NYSE in 1992, the same subsidiary again on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1999, and that same year a different subsidiary on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Yang, the founding chairman of Brilliance Auto, was involved with the company during the 1990s.

Yang Rong (Chinese: 仰融 ; born 1957), also known as Yung Yeung and Benjamin Yeung is an exiled Chinese tycoon. He was born in Shanghai in 1957. Only a year after the magazine Forbes proclaimed him China's third richest businessman in 2001, Yang fled to the US following a dispute with the Chinese government.