Wang Yannan, the daughter of **He graduated from the English Department of Guangzhou University of Foreign Chinese in 1977 and from the University of Young Boham, Hawaii in 1983. He used to be a translator at the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and the deputy general manager of the Great Wall Hotel in Beijing. He is currently the director and president of China Guardian International Auction and one of the founders of Guardian.
1. The relationship between Wang Yannan's family figures
Father: *
October 1919-January 17, 2005), a native of Huaxian County, Henan Province, participated in revolutionary work in 1937 and joined the Communist Party of China in February 1938.
During the years of the revolutionary war and the period of socialist construction, Comrade ** successively held the main leading positions of the county party committee, prefectural party committee, and provincial party committee of the Communist Party of China in the locality; In the early stage of reform and opening up, Comrade ** held important leading positions in the country and made useful contributions to the cause of the party and the people.
Mother: Liang Boqi
Liang Boqi (1918 – December 25, 2013), the wife of *, was a native of Neihuang County, Henan Province. Liang Boqi has successively served as the chairman of the Nanyang District Women's Committee, a division-level cadre of the South China Branch of the Communist Party of China, the deputy director of the Organization Department of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, the secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Sichuan Provincial Foreign Trade Bureau, and a deputy ministerial-level cadre of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China.
2. Wang Yannan is in charge of China Guardian International Auction Company
At the beginning of its establishment, Chen Dongsheng, the founder of China Guardian, began to recruit everywhere, poaching Wang Yannan, deputy general manager of the Great Wall Hotel in Beijing, as the president of China Guardian. Since then, Wang Yannan has moved to the auction field. Wang Yannan is currently the president of China Guardian International Auction and one of the founders of Guardian, in charge of presiding over the overall work of China Guardian's development strategy.
Founded in May 1993, China Guardian International Auction is a comprehensive auction company mainly engaged in Chinese cultural relics and artworks, headquartered in Beijing. Large-scale auctions in spring and autumn are held regularly every year, as well as the "Guardian Four Seasons" auction. The company has offices in Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and liaison offices in North America.
China Guardian International Auction *** permanent cultural relics and artworks auction items include: Chinese calligraphy and painting, porcelain, handicrafts, oil paintings and sculptures, rare books, inscriptions, stamps, coins, bronze mirrors, jewelry, jadeite, clocks and watches and other categories, each project continues to break through the regional and world art auction transaction records, many national treasures such as "Weng's Collection", "Song Huizong Sketch Rare Birds", "Tang Jihuai Vegetarian Fish Post", "Song Gaozong Handwritten Health Theory", "Zhu Xi Spring Rain Post" and "Ode to the Teacher" Through the efforts of China Guardian, they have either returned to the mainland from overseas, or flowed from the private sector to important collection institutions.
3. Wang Yannan solves the contradiction between cultural relics protection and auction
In 1982, the "People's Republic of China Cultural Relics Protection" stipulates that in addition to sending private cultural relics to the units designated by the cultural administrative department for purchase, no other unit or individual shall operate the cultural relics acquisition business, but in 1992, Wang Yannan took office at China Guardian International Auction *** At the Beijing International Art Auction that year, after many efforts, 2,188 pieces of bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, porcelain and jade from the official kilns of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and modern calligraphy and painting were launched, which became " The Ice-Breaking Auction of Chinese Historical Relics and Artworks", creating a history of Chinese cultural relics auctions and achieving a breakthrough in the auction of cultural relics.
In order to successfully win the first auction of China Guardian International Auction, Wang Yannan made a good start to the "company's opening auction", and tried every means to solicit lots and newspaper advertisements, "choose the most well-known and influential newspaper "People's **" reference news at that time, all of which were mainstream newspapers. China Guardian also invited cultural experts to hold a seminar, and many people held a negative attitude that the policy was not good, while Qin Gong, then general manager of the Beijing Cultural Relics Company, and others were optimistic about supporting this matter. Wang Yannan actually "walked on two legs" in that auction solicitation, one was private and the other was supported by institutions.
Fourth, Wang Yannan realized his dream and planned a bigger blueprint for the company
From the initial auction of China Guardian International Auction Company, the auction price of "Sketch of Rare Birds" reached 3 million US dollars; Later, calligraphy and painting broke through the 10 million yuan mark for the first time, and in 1996, Guardian Autumn auctioned Fu Baoshi's "Beauty Walk" for 10.78 million yuan; Later, Zhu Xi and other seven calligraphy schools launched by China Guardian also took 100.8 billion yuan sold. The follow-up company is breaking through and refreshing the first historical record every time it holds an auction.
In April 1997, China Guardian International Auction *** Hong Kong office was established, 1997 can be said to be an important step for China Guardian to expand its international business, 15 years later, China Guardian held its first auction in Hong Kong to show its advantages in Chinese calligraphy, painting and classical furniture auctions.
Wang Yannan later led China Guardian International Auction Company to build the China Guardian International Art Center in the south of the National Art Museum of China, and the company has its own auction venue since then, realizing the dream of China Guardian International Auction Company's top and bottom executives, shareholders and employees. After having his own auction venue, Wang Yannan is planning and planning the company's greater development strategy blueprint, in the future, Guardian will hold various exhibitions and activities according to business needs, and develop various activities centered on cultural relics and artworks in an all-round way.