[1/2] Hui Ka Yan, chairman of Evergrande Real Estate Group Ltd, the country's second-largest property developer by sales, attends a news conference on annual results in Hong Kong, China March 29, 2016.
A person close to Evergrande said Hui had stopped contacting staff over the past few days, while an industry source said he had become totally inaccessible.
Evergrande grew to achieve 700 billion yuan ($95.8 billion) in annual sales by 2020.
Outside mainland China, Hui mixed with Hong Kong tycoons.
Without the country giving me a scholarship of 14 yuan every month, I could not have completed university," Hui said.
Persons:
Hui Ka Yan, Bobby Yip, Yan, Hui, Evergrande, Xi Jinping, Cheng, tycoons, Cheng Yu Tung
Organizations:
Real Estate Group, REUTERS, Chinese Communist Party, China Evergrande, HK, Evergrande, Bloomberg, Reuters, Forbes, Hong, New, Party, Thomson
Locations:
Hong Kong, China, HONG KONG, Tiananmen, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Henan